From what I know there are a number of legal complications/liabilities to hosting NSFW content. For most people hosting instances it’s just not worth the hassle given that users can still interact with the NSFW communities on the dedicated instance.
Been trying to convince family and friends to switch; it isn’t necessarily the easiest switch, especially for non-technical people, but I hope it’s worth it for them.
Sure. WiFi is just using radio waves, and if the software is advanced enough, you could potentially use wifi signals as a form of radar to map things. Not sure how great the resolution could potentially be though.
Most (all?) Lemmy instances are hosted by individuals doing it for personal interest. I assume many admins don’t want the legal liability of random users possibly posting illegal NSFW material.
I think it’s partly a demographic thing, too. lemmynsfw.com came into existence with the initial Reddit exodus, as did most Lemmy instances. Lemmy was apparently a pretty quiet place until three weeks ago.
This must play a huge role. Given how Lemmy works, illegal content is actively being hosted on your server, that’s a huge risk, surely. I wouldn’t touch hosting porn on any server I owned or administered with a ten foot pole.
Plus, all it takes is some moron posting a picture of an underage girl. If you don’t catch and remove it quick enough, boom, you’re hosting CP and in a world of trouble. Not worth the liability.
Not reporting it can get you a pretty hefty fine. And even if you do report it there are specific challenges regarding storing the evidence and what data you must collect and it’s all a gigantic mess.
The fact that there is even one instance that are willing to go through all this is more than I expected.
This nobody wants to have to deal with the possibility of legal issues of hosting child porn because some creepy person posts it to there site nothing stoping a porn company from hosting there own instance and then they can charge people for it
Lol yeah this place was nuts before the exodus. It was mostly marxists simping for Mao and Stalin and you’d regularly find 2yo posts at the top. Couldn’t convince anyone else to join either because they’d go check it out, see people claiming that the holodomor, tienanmen square, and the armenian genocide never happened, and support for “the Z warriors” who are “fighting ukranian nazis and western imperialism,” and understandably they’d nope right the fuck out.
I’m so fucking glad all of you came to this platform to make it usable. Seriously, thank each and every one of you.
Weeellll I just migrated here from lemmy.ml but that acct is probably 2y old by now. There’s graybeards here older than me that I still bump into every so often too! Back then it was so slow the most populated communities (well, I avoided the communist ones, so the most popular “normal” ones like c/linux or c/memes) had like 30 users a month, most communities like c/books had much less. One single dude posted almost all of the stuff in c/worldnews and a few other communities lol. Shit was kinda wild, but I’m definitely glad for the reddit exodus bringing new life in! You dern kids stay on my lawn!
I’m still reading it and I’m halfway through it. I agree in recommending it! Moreover gapminder (which is the source of most of the stats) now has data updated up to the year 2022.
So it would need to be a movement across instances, not just a single action, but given the principles of the user base here and why we’re here I think that movement would be very successful.
For now, in the past 30 days I’ve seen instances be very active in moderation and development and federation\defederation. They defederate even when they don’t need to. This anecdotal experience leads me to believe that most instances will defederate from Meta, but I’m certain that a few of them will not.
But just as a side note, a user can block an entire instance as well, at least on Mastodon. I haven’t checked for that functionality on Lemmy. That’s not defederation, but it prevents you from seeing things you don’t want to at the user level.
I haven’t found it but I’d love to see it if I can. As world is struggling I want to use an alt but most alternatives haven’t defederated exploding heads
They’re extremely comfortable with homophobia and transphobia. When I was seeing if I could ban them for example they were talking about considering “cis” and “cisgender” a slur that’s bannable, but they don’t consider a particular word starting with an f that bad.
Super Metroid. It’s an amazing game if you play it normally, and you can branch out into sequence breaking tricks pretty easily. It basically created/popularized an entire genre of games.
I’m currently using a PinePhone Pro as my daily driver and if you want something to play around with that’s definitely an option (though the PinePhone is probably a little more stable and less tinkery).
If you care less about it being a “free” phone built specifically for Linux and just want something that works, then rooting some older phone with good support will probably provide a better experience.
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