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"The tighter your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers."

Right now crypto is pretty much only for libertarians and money laundering.

Video piracy is pretty much only for people who can't stand a little bit of ads.

Porn sites just ask if you're over 18 and then show you whatever you want.

Increasing the barrier to exit allows these services to enshittify further, but also gives normal people an actual reason to switch.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago

    Is it a few bad individuals, or the entire concept of a corporation?

    If I dumped barrels of pollution into the river myself as an individual, then I'd be arrested. But if I hide behind a corporate veil and pay someone else to do it, then nobody gets arrested, and my fine is below the environmental cost.

    Corporations are inherently evil. If they weren't, then they'd just pay for liability insurance like a doctor does. The whole reason they exist is to legally avoid the personal responsibility you suggest. Peacefully protesting outside their houses isn't enough.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40825996

    Digital artists and illustrators are abandoning Elon Musk’s blogging platform X (formerly Twitter) over the introduction of a new controversial image-editing feature powered by artificial intelligence (AI). According to reports, the creators claimed that the new tool could be used to modify others’ works without their consent.

    One such popular creator championing the boycott is Mu-jik Park, the renowned South Korean artist known by the pen name Boichi. Boichi is the creator of the hit manga series Dr Stone and Sun-Ken Rock.

     

    My understanding of federation is that it's like email. If one server is misbehaving, then they get defederated.

    So how come email spam still exists - why don't spammer domains get defederated? It seems like we've got the worst of both worlds, where it's hard to get your emails relayed when you run a small email server, and easy to get them relayed if you're a spammer.

    Is there anything about Lemmy's architecture that will prevent this problem?

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