Loot boxes are far more predatory than gambling. They are literally advertised in games that children play.

It’s the same as fighting against “fake news” which just creates a false trust that everything on the internet is truth. Which is the opposite of what one should believe.

Many European age verification services can verify the age without giving them any data. It works like OAuth. You get redirect to a portal where you login with your citizen ID and you’ll get redirected back to the website.

How it would work in practice is still too soon to say. Maybe they’ll also share other details such as your name or citizen id number to make sure you can only have a single account on the website. I wouldn’t want this either.

Keep in mind that all kinds of age verification like this just shifts a lot of porn into the underground and will increase identity fraud. The illegal sale of hacked verified porn accounts will also become as valuable as porn accounts on paid websites.

Yes but the question was for a federated alternative. lemmynsfw is not a federation by itself. It’s only a part of a larger federation.

You would need multiple nsfw lemmy instances which can then become their own federation. Or a separate federation software on top of ActivityPub.

Do you guys realize how much 40% actually is in a single year? That’s crazy. Don’t just look at the 5.1%.

I’m sure it’s heavily influenced by the Steam Deck, it being a great device for porn and all, but still.

Back when I used Windows I used PatchMyPC and made it add a daily task.

It updated most of my programs.

A single instance is not federated by itself. It requires multiple instances to be considered a federation.

Just a little nitpick.

Maybe consider that some people do enjoy privacy on the internet.

This.

They also have a form to submit AI crawlers.

CloudFlare can also easily maintain an anti AI crawler service completely by itself if it takes a fee on top of their pay per crawl functionality. However, considering CloudFlare already has all the tools and infrastructure to do this cheaply, providing a good service wouldn’t be too hard.

That’s actually extremely common. Belgian fries (the original French fries) are originally cooked in beef fat. But nowadays it’s often a beef/plant based fat mix instead. It’s actually quite hard to find vegan fries in Belgium.

That is depressingly insightful. See also: the internal war on everyone who isn’t a middle-aged white cis het man (and even some of them, too). Just negativity all around.

Yes. Separating the people is an extremely strong tool in the authoritarian handbook. It is such a strong tool that the things it accomplishes are too much to list here. There are a lot of books on the matter. I think it’s even explained in some of the CIA books.

What really brings me down it’s the certainty that even if that is guy was suddenly not there anymore, there is a whole gaggle of like folk ready to continue that same rhetoric. How do you even dig yourselves out of that?

This is not completely correct. People fighting back against their oppressors sends an extremely strong message. And it even goes both way. For example, the attack on the USA Capitol of January 6th gave these Magazis a lot of power because they saw unity in their oppression.

The good thing is that there’s always more good people than bad.

That’s impossible. “Make America Great Again” is a slogan that he can only abuse as long as there are problems. If he wants to stay in power it’s in his best interest to create problems. It’s what fascists dictators have been doing since forever. Even if there are no problems they will point towards something and make you think it is a problem, so they can market themselves as the solution. If he would “win” he would lose his power, which is obviously the opposite of what somebody like Trump wants.

Cooked al dente?

That phone looks very different, especially the cameras.

Aren’t you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?

Like any proud parent would do.

I guess the trick is to not look for stuff to host because you’ll end up with all kinds of things you weren’t doing in the first place.

https://osgameclones.com/?tag=remake

Great. I always wanted a premium 911 subscription. If the lines are full it just disconnects somebody and connects me instead.

19.99/month for an operator with a decent microphone.

79.99/month for 2 operators at the same time.

I love how this just implies that the resistance has gained another 80 000 soldiers.