"Polls show that 99.9% of people like to take polls"

That's true. Scrapping is a gold mine for the people that don't know. I worked for a place which crawls the internet and beyond (fetches some internal dumps we pay for). There is no chance a zip bomb would crash the workers as there are strict timeouts and smell tests (even if a does it will crash an ECS task at worst and we will be alerted to fix that within a short time). We were as honest as it gets though, following GDPR, honoring the robots file, no spiders or scanners allowed, only home page to extract some insights.

I am aware of some big name EU non-software companies very interested in keeping an eye on some key things that are only possible with scraping.

I remember the millionaire who wanted to prove that he could rebuild his wealth if he started from scratch again. He cheated a little bit because he used his friend apartment for free.

Fast forward, he gave up after a couple of months and understood what the rest of us knew for ages.

Wealthy people are delusional and no amount of reasoning will work with them.

To me it's a feature and not a problem to have less people. I had more online human interaction in lemmy than I had anywhere else (except maybe facebook in early times). Look at Reddit now, good luck interacting with real genuine people. Everyone is shilling something and nobody is honest, plus the low quality posts count growing.

I saw some studies a few years ago on how people are less interested in traditional social media and more interested in instant messaging 1to1 and small group chats. Also something about how group chats become dead after they exceed a couple hundred members.

Just to say, I am more happy with the way things are in lemmy. I appreciate all aspects of Lemmy really.

I see. I can use torrent without VPN in my location but I get it.

Blocking VPNs is a nightmare for governments. Some companies rely on them for normal operation. I doubt western countries will take such path due to the economic impact of it. You got also ways to bypass blocks, new obfs protocols popping up everyday, residential proxies, tor, i2p,... So yeah, you need a full time large team working to keep up with some of that for a full implementation. How China didnt give up on that yet is beyond me TBH.

IMO, it s not something we should worry about it now.

mmm cracking how? turning off the internet?

well said. I would add his clients too.

You are not wrong. But there are things you can do to make a point. Make Reddit as a 2nd class citizen and drive people to lemmy, mastodon and the others. Like add posts with no comments, just relay bot, ... Make it clear.

Same with GitHub, it's mirror to my Gitea instance. You can see stuff but you have to move somewhere else to contribute and report issues. Not a terrible thing to use these proprietary services and yet make them 2nd class citizens.

I came here to say at least it's not discord then I saw your comment. Yes, there s mattermost, matrix, IRC, ... I am not installing Discord, I am not opening an account. I mean what s next? host your community in Skype?

I am curious why not docker? it s pretty convenient in my setup (docker compose + traefik). If I need to migrate it s really simple, if I am to nuke a service just bring it down and delete the path.

I give haircuts to myself and the shaving device I got recently was like 40-50 EUR and it s expected to last a couple years like the one before it.

My reasons for not going to the proper place is:

1. I am always on the move (I might not speak the language of the current country)
2. I am lazy and prefer to do things at home rather than arrange an appointment or go wait there
3. professionals make the haircut look way better but it will last for a couple days / couple showers

Mine looks plain, in the beginning they look even worse then you start getting it. The advice I would give others wanting to try that: dont shave too much so the small imperfections will not be too obvious.

My pleasure! These people have been doing volunteering work for more than 10 years and deserve a lot of love. They had some meal plans also. They are great people and they need a lot of support.