Slammed!

I don’t see how we would make them afraid without any implied threat of violence though. Apart from that, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

I’m pretty sure we all agree that violence is a bad solution. The problem is we’re all out of good ones. What are the alternatives at this point?

I think that’s the nicest “LMGTFY” kind of response I’ve seen. Kudos to you, my friend.

At this point it’s hardly the law and the constitution. These are just unpredictable whims of the people in power.

It’s too hard to change anything if one believes in laws, rules and the general idea of a fair justice. They don’t have this limitation.

One of the problems that annoyed me in the past is the complexity and ambiguity of deleting an email over IMAP. Depending on whether it’s the last label of the deleted email, deleting an email from a label’s directory either removes a label from this email, or actually deletes the email.

Considering labels are very non-standard, which caused trouble over IMAP since forever, I wouldn’t count on that part.

It’d probably create a new job: a professional fall guy.

We want other options to be allowed to exist. This is “you just want everyone to be gay/trans/whatever” all over again.

Same. Most news sites treating this change as a “Kindle issue” is borderline disinformation. This is an “Amazon issue”. Kindle the device isn’t changing and there is no reason to switch if you already own one (just please don’t buy a new one).

Isn’t Waze owned by Google too?

Sadly look at email. Technically you can host it yourself but if you’re not one of the 15 or so big providers, good luck not being marked as spam before you even do anything.

The real problem is with the oligarchy controlling everything, service or protocol. This is why Threads was/is dangerous.

I don’t think so. It’s probably what keeps it small and more personal. There is also the notion of responsibility: if a person I invite causes trouble, it’s potentially on me. Maybe not on the first infraction, but if one invites 20 spammers/cryptobros/venturecapitalists, it’s reasonable to block the inviter too.

I’m not arguing one way or another (that’s not my decision anyway), but I can understand why they do this.

You’ll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/