If it really ramps up, we could share block lists too, like with ad blockers. So if a friend (or nth-degree friend) blocks someone, then you would block them automatically.

2009-2017 boomed a little too

This suggestion makes you a crypto influencer now.

Hey what if instead of free adblock, we charged people for it? Also I’ll use a little bit of the profits to try banning gay marriage.

Sure, you can change literally everything about Firefox if you pay a time cost. The defaults do matter because that’s one more thing to fix when installing it. We could say this about any negative feature.

Here you go my friend

Limited leaning, for the people who won’t stop trying to walk through virtual walls.

In hindsight it’s sad how very right he was. Now when I think “I want to send Alice a message”, I just go to the app I know will work, instead of trying to remember if Alice still uses Signal too.

Man, we need mesh networks yesterday. I don’t care if it’s slow, I just want them to get out of my face.

An instance with poor interoperability and boot licker admins.

I’m glad Reddit won here because it sets a precedent that will protect less well-funded Lemmy instances.

Hey now, it’s impossible for them to coordinate on employment to prevent recessions!

Because every time they coordinate they form a cartel that causes a recession.

Wouldn’t that just be a bunch of QR codes in the credits? That would be easier to automate than it is to pay middlemen.

It’s a tragedy of the commons - as an economics problem it matters, sure, but copyright is an artificial monopoly, not a human right. We could provide these more efficiently with public funding of the arts or crowdfunds, without the need to make up imaginary property with imaginary ethics.

But if you want to sign up for a bunch of subscriptions because some might trickle down to the writers, be my guest.

So you moved the goalposts?

You’ve gone from asking what was lost to insisting that they took it in order to give us a discount.

Refunding the sale price is still theft. If it was only worth that much to me (zero surplus), then I wouldn’t have bothered with the trade in the first place. The only things worth buying are worth more to you than the sale price.

Don’t dissidents want regime change to happen more than they want Netflix?

Neoliberals: “OK how about we keep doing the thing that makes them care only about next quarter, but give them a $1 fine every time they’re negligent?”

The whole point of mining/staking/whatever is to be expensive. Governments can pigouvian tax it to high hell, mine workers can unionize, and it won’t make any difference to users whatsoever. So there’s literally no benefit to more energy use.

Bitcoin mines can’t do general computing. They use ASICs that can only mine.