…or basic.

Matthew Dow Smith, whomever the fuck that is, has a sophisticated delusion about what’s actually going on and he’s incorporated it into his persecution complex. Not impressed.

This is the weird, sentimental attitude that has me buried in clutter

Yeah, that’ll fix it!

I don’t think it can be considered malware unless its doing something malicious that you don’t expect. I don’t want or need it on my system, but people who want to play these multiplayer games have a valid use-case and can make that decision themselves.

Of course, you may have just intended to snarky and I’m just being tedious.

It’s worse than Skyrim. Skyrim is at least fun to look at and explore.

what the fuck are you talking about

many such cases

By default, lemmy will federate openly with any other instance. You can then block specific instances. (Disallow-list)

You can additionally disable federation altogether, or only federate with a specified list. (Allow-list).

It’s a week later, but I did get this done finally. I’ve set up https://lem.monster/ . Still doing some tweaking, but it’s open.

I’m gay too. I don’t really understand what this post is about. Your complaint is seeing someone you’re not attracted to? That can’t be right. There has to be something I’m missing.

You think lemmy “includes human rights violations?” What does that mean? Also, read the entire page you keep linking to. Slur filtering is optional.

That hasn’t been the case for a while now. It also never truly mattered, the code is available for you to modify.

I’m going to set up a general purpose instance tomorrow with the intention of handling a relatively large number of users. The main problem is choosing a domain!

Like seemingly most people here, I use Firefox primarily. But while I’m working I use Edge, both to separate my work/non-work computer usage somewhat and because I work mostly with Microsoft technologies anyway, and it integrates nicely with office365 as one would expect. It’s a perfectly good browser with some nice features. I think if I needed to use a chrome derivative, it would be either Edge or Vivaldi.

I have one too and I feel mostly the same as you. It’s ridiculously expensive (and fragile! Be sure to have insurance!) and not what I consider a practical purchase, but I like having it.

I do think it would be interesting to try to run a general-purpose instance that operates with the same global rules (more or less) as Reddit. The reason I can’t imagine doing it myself is that admin duties on such an instance is rather daunting.

As a replacement for SMS with people you know and share phone number with though, it’s sufficient.

I will only eat more

RSS is a format for data (often served over HTTPS), not a protocol. I don’t really understand comparing a data format to a federated communication protocol.