RubberDuck

Phones are expensive and fragile. No need to add movable parts and more fragility to the mix. Especially not at those price points.

I think I responded to the tone and then you see premise that insinuated that colonial oppressors are just using their advantage to once again oppress the poor indigenous people of wherever in yet another way. Which I don’t agree with.

The concept of the fediverse seems to be that admins host instances and are pretty welcoming to new communities… So if someone from I dunno Togo would setup a lomé or togo-politics community it would be supported. Meaning anyone from anywhere can use the infra provided to setup and moderate their communities.

If anything the system allows people more advantaged with resources (time, money, know how) to provide an open space that can be used by everyone (within reason). Without being beholden to big tech and her hidden profit driven agenda.

I would be more concerned about accessibility and usability from the perspective of a lot of people. As many countries that are still developing have limited time and access. And I don’t know if the current state of the fediverse in it’s development is of much help.

I’llIncreasing the usability of the whole ecosystem with improved clients, moderation tools etc (the stuff that fediverse users are requesting, and those devs are working on) will help.

Once it is mature, more will come. And like with tech, financed by early adopters this seems similar.

In the mean time I see people from all over the globe post stuff about many things, including national interest stuff that would otherwise have passed me by.

And I don’t see stuff posted in languages I don’t comprehend because my profile filteres them out. I don’t know if there are any Swahili/Papiamento/Mandarin/Indonesian posts on lemmy, but Lemmy supports many languages so that might be a thing.

Lastly the whole us vs them (colonial powers, oppressors etc etc) might be applicable to a lot of the world, however, garnering support for a cause by making accusations against the fediverse and the current generation of hosts and users does not help. I would advise a more constructive stance in general. If you see people actually being as you describe call them out and tell it like it is by all means, but this was not the way to get the ball rolling.

I’d probably gone with something like: the fediverse is growing, how can we help it develop in a direction better serving people in developing countries. To get them out from under the power hold and monopolies of the big tech conglomerates. … or something.

In that case I would have stuck with an answer like above… we need to foster and nurture it’s growth so it becomes a good alternative and the people will come. Plus… you know… ask people from these countries or maybe even get devs from there involved using stuff like patreon. Getting feedback from people not using your product… and finding out why they don’t is hard.

But Lemmy for example already did a solid by making sure the platform supports a looooot or languages “out of the box”.

Hope that’s better :).

For the record, I did not downvotes your reply as it deserves an actual response.

Yeah… those leeches from underdeveloped countries should be hosting fediverse servers with all that expendable income they have.

What a shit take.

Star Citizen has entered the chat…

Little dictators that have too much prominence and visibility are the threats. If a specific start point gets too prominent a lot of users could be redirected from good instances because of the little tyrants that run such a jump on point. Granted it can be easily routes around by offering alternative entry points, but a certain amount of prominence will impact not so Tech savvy users.

And in your assumption you have shown you already understand the fediverse more than a lot of people ever will. They will just join an instance and browse /ALL.

I think this is true, but the fediverse (as an entity) needs to prevent too much power accumulating at one point.

No way! Little dictators exercising the power they have. But it is their platform, they can do what they want right?

This is probably the biggest threat to the fediverse.

I thanks… must have read over it. That is just an insane amount… way to many people with too much time on their hands and a personality disorder.

Stupid people making threats against public officials, I hope they get a visit from a couple of FBI agents to take them for an appointment with a judge.

Stupid article, 600 percent sensationalism… 1 to 6… 10 to 60… 33 to 198… what?

At least tax loans that use stock and other “untaxes assets” as collateral as realizes gains.

Also it is kinda weird that normal people pay taxes on properties but assets like stock portfolios are not taxed.

Footing the bill… but yes. Then again, maybe with the amount of shipping traffic a tunnel makes more sense.

You do you buddy! A principle is worthless untill you actually have to suffer for it.

Just know that all the people rabidly against your best interests are all die hard republican voters that will turn out in droves.

And the children of Gaza will continue to suffer, but the MAGAts will Stack all brown children at the border on that mountain of suffering.

So you are clearly showing you are willing to make more people suffer for your convictions… fight the power… rage against the machine!

Or… maybe… nah… too much work … amirite?

Agreed. This was the civil fraud trial, where trump and co where found liable of: fraudulently adjusting the evaluation of their holdings based on the audience. So for the IRS the valuation was low and for lenders it was high.

But in the case where banks are the victims I have trouble feeling for them.

True, the whole “victimless crime” stick is nonsense. Because if all the real estate world is lied together like this, the general population pays waaayyyy to much for their real estate and rent in addition to missing out on so much tax revenue.

That is actually a good point. Thanks.

Well that he gets it back if he wins is part of the grounds for the appeal.

If you force someone to liquidate and then he is found not guilty, the harm this has caused can/will outweigh the potential punishment many times over.

So see that separate from the case and the person, that cannot be right.

Don’t get me wrong, I feel no sympathy at all for defendant trump, but in general the punishment should be the punishment.

You should hear this in John’s voice: “is it though”

And a 2.5 million RV

And how can paying his bills not be construed as income for don?

Or, vote him out and make so much fun of him that he quits too, putting congress closer to a dem majority.