Idk, that seems like a difficult technical and political challenge, so I don’t think that’s very likely.
However, what I think is much more likely to happen is cameras detecting copyrighted content and not recording it. Or automatic instant takedowns of copyrighted content when the video is shared. Then, all the government would need to do is play copyrighted music when they don’t want you to record.
Oh wait, this is already happening [1] albeit not commonly or to an extreme extent. But really, this is why we need to be very careful about technological enforcement of laws. It can lead to unintended (or intended) negative consequences to civil liberties. And its also why its critical for your devices to always be acting on your behalf, and not for the government or corporations.
Eh. Lemmy has the biggest user base because it isn’t a single site. That makes it hard for anything else to match. Since it’s not being a single site also puts a barrier to entry, you get less idiots and low effort crap. Well, outside of the c/s where low effort crap is the point lol.
It feels the most like reddit with a lower degree of the bad parts. The differences tend to be beneficial or neutral rather than a detriment. The only real significant flaw is the early stage of development. There’s a lack of feature and tool parity that’s pretty big. Luckily, the boom in users hasn’t gone very far past where other tools will be needed, and there’s enough apps that are killing it in terms of features that make up for the lemmy development lag that it isn’t something that matters enough to make going to a more centralized site worth it.
I’m repeating a lot from other comments I’ve made, but once discovery improves, and we get a solid organization ability for our subscriptions, you won’t notice any minor differences at all. Moderation tools are weak, but they aren’t necessary yet either. There’s fewer assholes being assholey, and that’s a huge factor that requires moderation more than anything but spam and bad bots. Mostly, the bots have been squashed on the admin side, so (again) there’s no rush for mod tools like automod.
We need a flair system here pretty bad because it would make a lot of the issues with both discovery and filtration go away. Even a # system would be useful, if it wasn’t the markdown for headers.
After that, a lemmy wide search, and you’ve got everything essential from reddit that isn’t already here.
Considering how quickly the third party system is coming up for Lemmy, I envision my reddit engagement to drop to zero soon enough. For now, Lemmy just doesn’t have all the info that Reddit has and that is fine considering Reddit has been there for a long while
Computer Science ATM. I’m slowly dancing around the subject of how the CPU scheduler works with modern hardware and resource allocation, and I mean SLOWLY. Like this has been on my back burner for a couple months.
I’ll quote Steely Dan here: “Unhand that gun, begone. There’s no one to fire upon.”
As infuriating and frustrating it is to live in a world plagued with systemic issues, it’s important to recognize that many of the world’s problems can’t be traced back to a single person, government, organization, or ideology. Some things are just nobody’s fault, and can’t be solved be a mere change of leadership.
Every society in the world today, no matter how it is structured or who it is lead by, will be subject to a list of inevitable problems. Scarcity. Bigotry. Violence. Crime. Incompetence. Selfishness. The uncomfortable fact is that nobody knows how to structure a society such so that all citizens meet their basic needs in exchange for an amount of work that they find tolerable.
This is true of the United States, of Europe, of the Soviet Union, of China under the CCP, and of every other country to ever exist. Some countries are, of course, worse than others. But in many countries you find that people and politicians try in earnest to improve society and simply fall short, sometimes because they misidentify the core issues, and other times because they don’t have good enough ideas for solving them.
I encourage everyone to look at politics as groups of impassioned people with strong opinions about how their lives might be improved. At the end of the day, those of us with kind hearts are trying our best to defeat a common enemy, and merely differ in approach. I think a lot of people would do good to realize that.
I’ve already deleted all of my posts and edited the comments to “FUCK YOU u/spez”. I didn’t delete the account because the little cunt has a reputation for editing user’s comments, I’m just gonna mass edit them from time to time to be sure.
I even changed out the email with an alias one literally saying “fuckyouspez@…” and that fucker hasn’t banned me yet.
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