Even if you run your own instance, your ability to access most communities is still at the whims of the dictators who run a few large instances.

The Network effect still affects Lemmy communities, unfortunately.

Judging by the comments here, you just need to block .ml, .world and piefed to block all the assholes? 🤔🤔🤔

What a mess. Not the graph, just all the netsplits in general.

Same. It feels like the internet created a lot of borderline psychopaths.

Or maybe it just revealed how many always existed.

Nothing, federation is effectively done by bots.

An account can’t, but you can export your subscriptions in settings

Doing Trump’s bidding.

It gets more difficult when you move away from mainstream stuff, video editing and VFX comes to mind (I was going to say CAD but then I remembered dassault exists)

How little? Doesn’t the human body make small quantities itself?

If you don’t find any of the paid options morally tolerable, I would submit that pirating and self-hosting what you need is the most ethical option.

youtube music revanced is also an option

At least this seems to only be for government projects, banning them for private installations would basically kill the industry.

More instances with minimal/no defederation would help. That way you can just tell people to pick one of those instances and it doesn’t matter which one.

It’s a bit of a faff to export and import your followed community list

What a garbage article.

The article lionises RCT, the gives us

The data alone seems to suggest cannabis medicines are relatively safe. But this may not be reflected in real-world use.

So it’s okay to substitute “real world use” for side effects but not effects?

Currently, there is a mismatch between the research evidence on medicinal cannabis – mainly short-term trials and CBD formulations – and real-world use, which is longer term and often using high-THC products.

So they admit nobody is actually doing, or paying for, studies on the correct medication.

We need more research on cannabis medicines, particularly for conditions with limited alternative treatments, and monitoring over longer periods.

As the TGA conducts a review of medical cannabis prescribing in Australia, these findings should inform future regulation.

“we know fuck all else works for what people are using this for, but it should still be banned”.

What vindictive assholes.

How is selling stuff that’s below the de minimis threshold “abusing” it?

The EU made Draconian import tax rules, and now can’t cope with the fallout.

Not being educated in the primary language of your country is a major socioeconomic disadvantage.

There’s international and european standards for this, but nobody follows them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_standard_for_size_labelling_of_clothes#EN_13402-2:_Primary_and_secondary_dimensions

This is already in nightly, you can see it on the test instance here https://voyager.lemmy.ml/c/photography@lemmy.ml