I generally don’t block people for such things. I just don’t respond anymore and that ends the conversation. Sometimes I’m in the mood to engage and we have a long (or short) argument. Can be everything. A misunderstanding, different culture. Or it’s a troll or someone stirring up drama or yelling their small perspective at anyone. Or it makes me think in the real world no one listens to their shit any more so they have to look for people online to “talk” to.

But I do block people. For example immediately if they spread hate, misinformation, are overly argumentative or attack people. Or spam. That’d be my main reason here.

(And I really don’t have to hang out with people I don’t like. Just disagreeing or being mildly negative won’t do it for me. Not even starting an argument with just me, if(!) it’s genuine and civil and I’m in the mood to talk. And people do listen. Otherwise, there is no point in engaging. And lots of argumentative people can’t listen, and that’s where I’m out.)

I know. But there are different platforms catering to different people, interests etc. I’m part oft some Linux, Free Software, special interest forums. And there definitely are communities with a very different atmosphere… So I wouldn’t say it’s impossible just because people are people.

Tell us if you find a better alternative.

I’m worried abot both. And the internet turning from a free marketplace of ideas into a market of private user data and selling advertisements.

Not sure if that’s a popular opinion here. But I’d say eating animals, eggs, cheese and drinking milk is an obvious one. Especially considering how these animals are generally treated. That’s not ethical in my eyes. Edit: But I read your question again and missed the last part, sorry. I still do it, but I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. So I might have missed the point.

Spotify, a virtual server and I used to have a Netflix subscription. (Plus a mobile phone and internet at home.)

I skimmed the first few pages. And it seems it’s just concerned with the content? You can store your notes (posts, file uploads, …) on arbitrary instances and move them around. But you still need a fixed instance that hosts your actor identity (your account) which then tells where to go to fetch a post. And that one can’t change. So your account and username would still be tied to a fixed domain handle. And you can’t move it. And even for the content, it seems like you’d need that fixed instance to do the 302 forward, so it needs to be contacted to resolve each location.

Edit: But you might be right. I don’t grasp the full concept. Maybe it enables us to configure a webserver on our own domain to forward a user handle to some external server. Meaning we don’t have to install a server ourselves. And the servers would then be interchangable (if this translates to fetching everything). You’d still be tied to your domain name. But not to a service anymore. That’d be great.

I enabled the DLNA server in Jellyfin. And that works okay with my LG webOS TV. But it’s down to the quirks of the TV which also likes to enable subtitles and the default audio track.

That sounds more like portable object storage, and not portable identity?

We also have the Snowden revelations… They also snoop on regular “normal” citizens, non-citizens and about everyone.

And concerning the “why”: I guess if your job is to spy on people, and you have a big budget available, you do just that. And it’s “better” to do more surveillance, than to miss something. Ideally you’d do total surveillance. Only thing stopping that is law and maybe some supervisory board.

Well, either you drop the All from ACAB… or your friend.

If I’m in a country where police mostly do what they’re supposed to do. I don’t live in the USA and I’ve called the cops for unclear and probably dangerous situations, traffic accidents, people sleeping at the bus stop when it’s too cold and they don’t respond to me yelling… So far everything turned out well. I mean I don’t call them for fun, though.

Hmmh, I was more loosely applying that to the issue at hand. Not saying capitalism is inherently malicious… But that it comes with downsides. Like precluding collective progress for individual gain. And being inherently unfair. And that an external observer might not necessarily attribute that to morals. But maybe think we just can’t do any better. Probably because of intelligence or psychology/human nature. That’d be far more likely and prevent any further discussion. I.e. we could strive for fairness, but be intellectually unfit to do it.

And I forgot the word for it, but there is a difference between how something is supposed to be and how it actually is. Maybe humans know/like other morals, but for some reason they don’t apply. That’d be hard to judge. On the other hand you certainly can tell things about people by how they act…

I think it’d be like one of the Star Trek TNG episodes where Q tests their moral judgement and concludes humanity is not ready yet. I think they did a good job picturing this. Q sets arbitrary and incomprehensible standards and benchmarks. At least from human perspective. And that’s because an alien is very different. And we can’t understand the reasoning of a higher intelligence. So either way, a higher intelligence alien will likely attribute something unintelligible to us.

I’d say they first question our intelligence before jumping to speculation about our morals. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity might be an universal concept.

I think because true communism never existed. All the previous attempts were flawed, people got corrupted, misused their power and it’s difficult to overcome human nature. It might work in theory (or not). But so far the attempts weren’t that many and they were all flawed for different reasons.

Yeah, unfortunately the US needs to be fixed.

Had that happen, too. We all try to educate users to NOT click on some dubious phishing/scams and put in qute some effort to explain it over and over again, and then there are companies doing things like that. It’s just sad.

I seriously doubt USPS bought a domain like gflrml dot cyou for their business. It’s 300% a scam.

We have separation of powers? Checks and balances? Supervisory boards?

I have a library card and they have plenty bluerays and audiobooks there. I think I’d download all Debian packages and maybe some pornography? Because that seems to be missing in the city library for some reason.