vacuumflower

Void user here, the feeling is similar to looking out of the window on a good day to look at some minor road incident.

As others have said, lack of privacy is what makes BitTorrent not the best tool.

Other things may be inconvenient (like good old XDCC or using Google Disk for piracy), or "invisible Joe" (like ed2k, gnutella and Usenet, due to all of these just not being sufficiently monitored by law enforcement or neighbors interested in your porn taste) cases.

And Freenet, I2P (with iMule and what else there is, there was some sharing thing similar to ed2k in experience), RetroShare are not sufficiently popular.

In general good things are not popular.

My point is, let's wait for Locutus and whether it succeeds in transforming the Web.

That quote seems more like Usenet. But yes.

Would be nice to have the same identity for Lemmy, XMPP, Diaspora and whatever else.

XMPP would be better, but this is something, yes.

Just a different walled garden.

My Russian friends are all in VK, my Russian relatives are all in Telegram, my Armenian relatives are all in Facebook Messenger, and my American relatives are all in WhatsApp and Skype.

I'm so tired of this shit TBF. Is it so hard to just install Conversations once for Android and whatever for iOS?

I don't think this is a satisfactory answer.

Anyway, what I said can be shortened to "everybody who is looking sees you as a hypocrite when you are doing this kind of activism which costs nothing".

I mean, there are indeed issues with the BLM movement. And this "possibly leading to radicalization" is much better than lack of critique.

Say, cultural appropriation is suddenly fine when it's black people doing it. (Talking about Cleopatra in that show, the show itself is not important, just that the "politically correct" approach to it differs.)

Or people who think that BLM is more important than actual ethnic cleansing happening in parts of the planet far away from BLM.

Of course, these issues are inherited from general ignorance and indifference to suffering of others combined with trends of virtue signaling. Same happens in many areas not connected to racism.

I mean, that's the way trademark laws in theory should work. Who got there first gets the logo. And the other side gets Jobs' mummified dick with some salt.

I've met people saying that animals are property and thus something like this is not a crime.

Dunno why it came to my mind now.

Ah. That it's a good test showing that rights and responsibilities can't, in fact, be completely symmetric. An animal may not have responsibilities, but it shouldn't be abused.

Ah, student loans are, in fact, a problem. One-time relief of student debts is a good thing - provided there are no new debts on such a scale and the mechanism changes after that.

Charity sponsorship of students is a good thing without doubt. Private stipends are a good thing. But when loans which are not going to be returned in a normal way are becoming that common, then something is wrong and should be fixed, not poured more money into.

They are a cause of inflation in education (which, of course, harms the students as well), of people like AOC talking and being listened about economics, because on paper they would be qualified, and so on.

One thing is chain reaction, another is that these media mostly came to existence in the same period of time. So they were aging synchronously.

This was predictable and predicted many times. Just like a building constructed with violations is not going to collapse immediately after it's finished, these things were not going to break (in various ways) immediately after being launched.

They are breaking now. Oopsie.

I hope XMPP makes a triumphant comeback. It's not dead yet.

I agree with this.

My point was that the way "first world" eats isn't scalable, be it the old way or the vegan way, which you said too.