I’m a system admin who self hosts a bunch of shit off of a 48 Ru rack in his washroom.

The internet used to be run off of the collective will of a bunch of people like me. I was there, back when it was FIDOnet and pirate bbs’s.

P.S. while I disagree with your viewpoint, this was a hilarious read, and I didn’t down vote you.

Spoken like someone that is too young to remember what the internet was like before everything got sucked up into google.

This is actually why I switched to xmpp for my chat server of about 200.

The room being the atomic unit, and automatic caching of media from rooms that any user is a member of, even rooms hosted on other servers was too much of a legal liability.

It became even worse when the CSAM users found my server that had open signups, but required a captcha and an email to signup.

Deleting the users, banning the rooms, and deleting the cached media became a multiple times a day chore.

Xmpp, so far, doesn’t have those issues. And it is so light on resources. I highly recommend the switch.

EDIT: the moderation tools on xmpp are also far superior.

Because my country is directly enabling and, depending on the definition, participating in a genocide and there is no one I can vote for (who would likely win) who will do even the slightest thing to stop it.

I do this, but I’ve got a wood chip yard except for where plants are.

Guess where the little bastards bury their peanuts?

I mean… Yes?

They don’t need to lie to sell their oppression. They just do it because they’re authoritarian.

It’s funny. I look at blocking as some king of moral judgment against the community, and so I don’t end up using it to shape my feed due to annoyance.

But, man, would I like to browse all without a million 196 posts.

Maybe it’s time I start.