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A fair observation, but doesn’t it cut both ways?

If we can’t keep a democratic state with built-in systems for accountability and equity, in check, how can we possibly hold each other accountable without such systems?

I end up very concerned by this kind of thing. Big money in the Linux space very frequently (though not always) creates more closed, proprietary Linuxes, rather than expanding and improving the open-source wider ecosystem.

Have you seen the developers of Lemmy?

Yes I have, they’ve said + done some problematic things. If that was a constant, ongoing and current pattern of behaviour, I’d be agreeing that running Lemmy instances would be a questionable pursuit.

There’s most likely parts of Linux that are merged from … people you don’t agree with.

Running an instance on Piefed isn’t like being a user. It’s the equivalent of running whole servers using a problematic Linux distro. And yes, I will and have stopped running Linux distros on servers, both personally and at work, due to problematic ownership over the distros.

If someone started running all their servers on a distro with shitty verbiage in it, whose developer kept hardcoding all their personal vendettas into it while using their authority over the project to ban users and side with people adjacent to fascists, I would (quite rightfully) question them about it. I would also doubt their beliefs.

Piefed has become Chernobyl levels of radioactive. You can keep running a Piefed instance but you better expect questions on why you’re helping to further this narcissistic psychopaths control and influence.

Yyyyyyep

Ah cool, siding with PugJesus, one of the most obsessively weird and hostile online bullies I’ve seen… I honestly just assumed they were a long-gone weirdo, but apparently they’re still doing their thing.

If it isn’t already, this method of moderating inevitably ends up with your instance being full of nazis. Piefed.social not looking to have a happy future.

I am quite happily both sides of this picture. I do not understand the issue.

Yep, simple fossil fuel (and other) lobbying so they can get more government money instead, no matter how less efficient.

So we’re really gonna give up on this suddenly very successful renewable switch and instead kill humanity just to own the Chinese huh

I read it as a pile of RAM equal to the worth of half a [‘standard’] bitcoin farm. Which with modern prices would be what, 2-3 sticks?