_cryptagion [he/him]

american stupidity.

mastodon isn’t dead.

the “bigger-boys”, as you put it, are currently fighting it together on appeal in a lawsuit. once the appeal is finished, it will probably head to the supreme court, where Kavanaugh has said it will likely be found unconstitutional.

this doesn’t kill the fediverse. mississippi can’t do shit to you if you aren’t in mississippi unless the state you’re in agrees to cooperate with them. and that’s only after they subpoena your hosting provider, which might not even cooperate with them at all if they are outside US jurisdiction. and if you go through cloudflare? that’s another subpeona from a corporation that doesn’t like revealing information about their users and has gone to federal court on many occasions to fight both state and federal governments.

any state that doesn’t have one of these laws on the books is unlikely to decide to extradite you for something that isn’t illegal where you live, especially since it’s not a criminal charge.

it’s all good

I think the midset of “Everyone’s opinion is valid and should be heard” is more of a neo-liberal perspective

well, that’s not what I said, so yeah, I agree with you.

it hurt itself in its confusion!

“I don’t like how you’ve chosen to express yourself, so I’m going to stick my head into the sand so I don’t hear your concerns.”

How very white liberal of you. Really channeling your inner Jordan Lund.

It’s also a feature of Piefed.

I looked at that link, and that’s a pretty shitty misrepresentation of what they said.

these people have been planning on this for lot longer than a year. christians have been trying to ban video games for decades. the only reason this group hasn’t come after more games is because they know they don’t yet have enough politicians behind them to manage it.

I wish there was a way for the average person to shoot down starlink satellites.

Trump will pitch a fit and big tech will settle and reinstate Tater Tots accounts.

Why you gotta do my man Sméagol like that?

Actually, they’ve said that their free tier is what gives them a paid tier to sell to other people. They know most people aren’t going to buy anything from them, but the are fine with that because they get to collect a ton of data about who is using hundreds of thousands of websites in order to figure out what traffic is bad. Without that huge user base, they can’t do what they do.

And judging from the article, it’s working out for them.