Attacking first strike detection isn’t the provocation

The fact that you genuinely believe this really says all we need to know about your intellectual capacity.

wonder how many of them will have to come back in wooden boxes for burgerlanders to start to care

I literally grew up in USSR, but do go on.

there’s some indirect stats represented by the increasing wealth transfer https://archive.ph/88KG1

Another aspect of the problem is that people making the decision of what programs to use don’t actually have to use them.

The idiots attacking first strike detection infrastructure. Amazing this needs to be spelled out.

literally everyone who is not an imbecile

No matter how many times you repeat this Russia isn’t going to stop the war. That’s been obvious for two years to anyone with a functioning brain. The fact that psycho wasps want to turn this war into a nuclear holocaust is just incredible.

Software just has to be good enough that people put up with it. Once you get users on the system, you make it difficult to move your data out which acts as a lock in mechanism. The company that can make a minimally usable product that people are willing to put up with will typically beat one making a really good product that takes longer to get to market.

It seems self-evident that political power resides in possessing leverage within the system. Society is not monolithic with everyone sharing identical aspirations. Given our economic framework, there are two distinct classes with competing interests - business owners strive to maximize profits and minimize expenses, while workers want to secure higher pay and benefits. These classes have inherently conflicting objectives. Meanwhile, private ownership creates a power imbalance where wealthy individuals who control businesses exert substantial influence over politics due to their ability to fund campaigns, lobbying efforts, and media coverage. As such, politicians are incentivized to cater to the interests of the capital-owning class for electoral success.

Furthermore, workers lack any tangible leverage in this system. The extent of our influence is limited to casting votes, but when all viable candidates are backed by wealthy interests, we’re left with a false choice. As Marx famously observed, “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” This reflects the harsh reality that workers face in an economic system where their voices often go unheard and interests are consistently overshadowed by those of capital owners.

Historically, workers have sought to establish leverage through collective action such as unionizing, engaging in strikes, protests, and other forms of direct action. However, today the rate of unionization is dismally low, and many existing unions struggle with issues like poor leadership and a lack of principled direction. This diminishes their capacity to effectively advocate for workers’ rights and negotiate fair wages and benefits in an environment where capital owners continue to hold significant political sway.

that’s gonna be one heck of a torrent :)

Right, it’s where the funding is going towards that’s the real issue.

What metadata is collected by third parties is completely tangential to the topic of the submission. However, as I’ve repeatedly tried to explain to you, there is no practical difference between running on bare metal which nobody does nowadays, or running a VPS. At this point it’s quite clear that you’re just trolling, so I’m going to stop here. Bye.

They’re not almost the same thing at all, and your whole position is weird given that the context is social media which is fundamentally content people want to publish publicly.

This has nothing to do with the original topic of discussion or Hollo in particular. You’re now arguing about pros and cons of using a VPS service. I also have no idea why you keep making statements like “not having everything encrypted on a server you don’t own is a massive flaw”. You absolutely can have everything encrypted running a VPS. You don’t understand the subject you’re discussing.

I don’t know what to tell you, but this is how modern internet works. Also, nobody is forcing you to get a server in a jurisdiction where US has access to. Meanwhile, any traffic is encrypted via HTTPS, so the provider can’t actually log it. It sounds like you have a very superficial understanding of the subject you’re debating here.

It’s really up to you how you set up your server and the datastore. This has nothing to do with Hollo. Again, there’s no difference between this and running a Mastodon server that will also need infrastructure like a db to back it.

pretty much nobody runs servers on bare metal nowadays

that’s because wasps don’t consider Palestinians to be human