It’s easier to pass a half assed alcohol prohibition than to solve the root problems of violence against women.

Sounds like the USA back in the 1910s. The anti-saloon league promoted prohibition to solve domestic violence, but it’s replaced with organized crime.

Car phones were trendy with rich urban professionals before cell phones got smaller.

Why is Kit on instance X gatekeeping a user in instance Y from accessing a community on instance Z?

Gives me vibes of old man yelling at kids to stop having fun.

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Right, the metrics they’ll look at are hosting costs went down 5% and ad revenue went up 10%.

“He’s so skibidi”

I think 50k MAU has been bandied about.

They blame SXM who made the messaging platform, but Stellantis are the ones sending the ads.

It’s like a spam caller blaming the phone company because you agreed to get a phone.

“We’re not withholding food from civilians as a negotiating tactic, we’re ensuring the safety of the people who have plenty of food”

My point is how could you ever count on deletion when the content is being federated?

Even if Lemmy devs made account deletion easy and cascade deletes your content, all it takes is one server run by an archivist and that content is never going away.

It seems inherently unfixable in a federated system, like trying to unsend an email.

Nothing is ever really deleted on the internet, especially if it was automatically replicated to dozens of other servers.