Is this just the inevitable tradeoff of federation? If anyone knows of a less regulated piefed instance, I’m all ears.

it’s a tradeoff you’re choosing to accept by using piefed; it literally had other fediverse instances blocking hard coded in its source.

i hate letting anyone decide who i can and can’t talk to so i chose instances with minimal blocking set by default and you might want to consider it if letting others decide for you is causing you this sort of consternation.

that helps explain mastodon’s push to id verification.

does this instance have this reputation?

(Do note that these values are not inherited by children.)

this is a deal breaker for me; their pids always seem to be prioritized over their parents. lol

i wish i could move there

only if you live in upper north america; western europe; or australia. lol

my previous comments is evidence enough that modern society’s views are skewed through a lenses shaped by those big influencers enough that there’s no such thing as a free market; only a capture one.

there isn’t enough bread and circuses on the lemmyverse to convince them to join.

the lemmyverse’s only true export is substantive discourse and information exchange free of the sort of “narrative management” and “suppression protocols” that the epstein illuminati revels in practicing on social media and even that is marred considerably by the most popular instances’ embrace of american propaganda and consent manufacturing.

i wish that they would. but they never seem to.

it’s one thing to convince you to buy something and it’s an entirely different thing to condition to you accept that genocides are necessary sometimes; vote against your own interests or else the other team will win; propagandize you against foreign political enemies; distract you from global rings of oligarchical pedofiles who torture, rape, kill and eat children for funsies; and many other things.

astroturfing

both the epsteing files and gishlaine maxwell case files have proven this to be a dramatic understatement.

they literally identified reddit as a high value platform and used words like “narrative management” and “suppression protocols” to describe their efforts.

it makes you wonder what the world would be like if people had this reaction to smartphones from the beginning.

wardrobe

did you mean war drive? are people still war driving?

the “i have nothing to hide” argument is easily dispelled by several avenues of critical thought; including the one your comment points out.

this sort of critical thought is not being applied to the russia/epstein narrative that’s taking hold on american politics right now.

it’s more peculiar than that: the ring cameras were installed over a month ago, but neither tenants have moved in yet and they both clearly have money since they’ve both had their apartment renovated by professionals instead of the landlord’s maintenance guys.

i’m guessing that these apartments are just their “city home” and i doubt that they will take kindly to a poor telling them how to live.

The “If I’ve got nothing to hide, why should I care” argument has predictably aged like sour milk.

has it? the kind of critical thought that easily dispels this fallacy isn’t being applied right now on a global scale as evidenced by the fact that people are blaming russia for the epstein illuminati ring.

my newest neighbors are having ring cameras installed in my apartment building and that combined with the knowledge that ring shares this data to the highest bidder (which is often the gov’t), i feel like my civil rights are being violated every time i have to walk past the ring cameras every time i walk out my front door. lol

did you ever wonder how we got steered into a situation where we’re forced to use windows, and cars, and starlink?

i switched jobs almost a year ago and inherited a 15+ year old code base with stuff like this in it; i just act like i don’t see it so that i won’t be tasked with fixing it. lol

i knew i recognized the name somewhere earlier today when i learned about it, but i couldn’t remember how until i saw this; i was forced to use it because of windows a while back.

i remember liking it too.