Corgana @ Corgana @startrek.website

/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

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"Lemmy" is actually not a platform like Reddit, it's software and the network of instances running that software is decentralized (Lemmy uses the ActivityPub protocol) meaning each instance is operated by a different person (or group). There are also other similar softwares like Piefed and mBin that work pretty well with Lemmy. That is all to say that if an Admin or Mod is "getting fascisty" you can block that instance, join another, or even create your own. That's the beauty of ActivityPub!

The only thing I’m aware of that they do even remotely better than anyone else is privacy.

Where did you hear this? Its my understanding that they are one of the worst when it comes to privacy.

If your legs are the primary driver then you do not have the type of vehicle the law is targeting.

Electric vehicles with a throttle (what the law is targeting) can absolutely be used as motorcycles. Hence why CA feels motorcycle-like vehicles need to be reclassified. What the law is targeting are functionally motorcycles/mopeds with pedals attached.

Exactly, one look at the photo used in the article:

Illustrates that this is not about regulating bicycles but electric mopeds/motorcycles.

Also this law is not a ban on throttles it just (correctly imo) reclassifies electric motorcycles as motor vehicles.

This law regulates vehicles with a throttle AKA what most people would consider an electric motorcycle. ebikes (meaning e-bicycles that you need to pedal to move) are unaffected.

I'm too scared to read this comment because it might contain more puns

So many fond memories of playing "find the obscure clause in the inter-species contract" with my action figures.

Captain's log, Stardate 43153.7. We are departing the Lemmy instance. We leave behind a being capable of producing extraordinarily corny strings of puns. I am not certain if she should be praised or condemned. Only that she should be left alone.

MRW someone on Lemmy enters a thread to complain about others having fun:

rtfa

"Many small instances that can survive with a couple of donations" seems much more sustainable than a handful of large ad-selling business "powered by Mastodon".

Well said! My instance doesn't need ads because the servers don't care about profits.

For some reason this quote popped into my head:

Q: The Jean-Luc Picard you wanted to be [...] learned to play it safe. And he never, ever got noticed by anyone.

Or TOS... TNG... Voyager... Enterprise...

I've never seen an ad-based tier on a Mastodon instance and the network does just fine 🤷‍♂️

Without executives leeching money from going to the actual cost of servers things seem to work better! Go figure!

only be indexed if you are using the google

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I opened this thread to type out this exact comment but somehow you typed up the exact same thing before me?