Sure, just as we have small independent email instances. But by and large the vast supermajority belong to a few large players.

I have no doubt the same will happen to the Fediverse.

Capitalism ruins everything in the end.

I’m lost.

Oh good gods I hope not. That kind of popularity is what killed Reddit.

Getting hugely popular --> Higher server costs --> Increased temptation towards profit-seeking

Sure, the whole of Lemmy wouldn’t privatize (at least at first), but what would likely happen is just as what has happened over the last 20 years with email: a few instances gets most of the traffic over the course of a decade or two, meaning small, independent instances won’t be able to compete.

Sure, their hosting ability (“users/dollar”, if you will) would plateau, but as more and more people join the big instances (think lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and so forth), the percentage of the Fediverse going to small, independent instances would increasingly get smaller, until we end up a corporatized federated Web to match our corporatized unitary Web.

Oh okay. Thanks. :)

there is around 193 countries in the world

All of which are out of my reach. Lol.

Money and the power of “fuck you”.

:(

hosted in a territory that doesn’t require these “security” measures

And then what do we do once everyone does these measures? There will be nowhere to run.

If we’ve defederated with them, then how come I can still see posts at lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/opensource@programming.dev?

I believe it was merely a typo.

Exactly.

I have no opinion because “Latin Americans” are human just like me. They have the same struggles, the same worries, the same joys, the same priorities. Their game pieces are the same; it’s only where on the board they put them that’s different.

To paint a whole group of literal hundreds of millions of people spanning across a geographic region of 1½–2 continents (depending on reckoning)

and twenty countries

is utter nonsense.

Definitely just the hammer & sickle. It still very much applies.

Alternatively, though this is not strictly Communism but Socialism, I really like the common logo used for Democratic Socialism, the Fist and Rose!

I also really like the logo of the Democratic Socialists of America!

Except not all comrades are white-collar workers.

A very large number of us, believe it or not, are blue collar.

(I’m one of them.)

(No OP, but…)

Well, unfortunately, we’re at an impasse, then. :(

Ubuntu

Ew.

Yeah, this article seems like a dumb take frankly. I’ve been around long enough to know the education system has been steadily defunded for literal decades now and that most Americans are taught from a young age to think intellectual thought is overrated.

I don’t think they were referring to capping their uploads, but to capping their upload speeds.

True, but tbf the rate helps the ratio, especially for those that don’t seed indefinitely.

Exactly this. I have great download speeds, but shit upload. Like, we’re talking 175 Mb/s down but only like 10 Mb/s up.

So, I typically limit my speed to 10 KiB/s (0.41 Mb/s) whenever my spousy is home so as not to hog the bandwidth. Lol.

So nothing has changed then. Gotcha. 👍