If you run into an asshole in the morning one instance, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day in every instance, you’re the asshole

Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t centralized. Instances can federate with other instances as they choose. If your instance has, for example, a lot of bigoted communities and users, you can expect the bigger instances to de-federate from yours.

You can always federate with instances that reject “EU norms”—whatever that means—in a bubble of your own.

Not necessarily. You can’t just say games should cost more because of inflation.

You’d have to take into account the cost to produce the game and the size of the market.

Except the ones played by Jack Black.

I’d like to see organization focused instances. Like a local government that runs an instance and moderates it. NGOs, clubs, sport leagues, etc. could do it.

It might become a nightmare of overlapping content, hierarchies and responsibilities, though.

Sounds like single sign-on (SSO). Which is practically everywhere these days.

I’d like to see a Venn diagram of computer nerds and incel, goth, trans, nazi, furry, hippy, punk, etc.

There’s a lot of diversity and I’d guess it would have some correlation with area of expertise.

I never got the sense that FOSS was particularly incel/anti-LGBTQ. But, tech support, maybe.

Would make an interesting sociological study.

GPLv3

Which applies to 99% of people making Delta Chat not a viable alternative to WhatsApp.

The Fediverse has the same problem that Linux, and Open Source in general, struggles with. The barriers to entry and network effects work against widespread adoption.

Until technology is packaged in a way that makes it dead simple and/or unavoidable, people won’t make the effort to move en masse.

To be fair, he could just be a really, really shitty writer.