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there's no ethical consumption under capitalism so might as well go for the most dogshit fucking garbage option available, right?

@whreq the blockchains go on the blocklist too so by extension... :thinkface:

stop being so shitty my server is gonna run out of space storing an instance blocklist this long

trying the cloud vendor-lock-in-ish service to build this app because that could still be preferable to setting up android studio locally :|

@joepie91 the pixie.town blocklist would make dial-up shudder

@rune ahh, yeah... can't have any onboarding friction even if that worsens the experience overall

tech optimism in the 1990s: computers allow unlimited copying. this will be revolutionary for society! that's right, no more property! communications that the government and corporations can't trace! yay, free culture!

tech optimism in 2020: with this revolutionary new technology we can make private property and money a reality on the Internet. we'll financialize everything and force the middle class to live in VR! all at the small cost of disastrous climate change!

There's *always* room for nuance

except sometimes, there's not

when thinking about cloudflare trying to get in on the fediverse hype, you should remember that their vision of "free speech" means shutting down a mastodon instance for sex workers while platforming literal nazis

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The magic smoke
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The magic smoke is out

can someone open an issue to remove that for "better analytics support"

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