What’s Cloudflare’s shit reputation? I thought they were the go-to service to prevent DDOSing.

I think the point is for you to meditate on that fact.

It’s your proposed solution that’s the problem. The answer isn’t to make Discord public, it’s to convince people to move off of it, and quite honestly, if you want people to leave Discord so badly, you’d be better off setting up separate public forums for the open source projects you are interested in on your own and convincing/bribing respected members of the Discord to post there, or copy/paste technical info there.

I feel the same way about Lemmy so I sympathize with you, honestly.

For open-source projects and stuff that needs to be public, I can feel you.

What these chucklefucks are asking for is to make ALL Discord content indexable and searchable, even extremely private intimate things, and that’s absolutely unacceptable.

And those bots can manipulate you into doing whatever the fuck they want you to do.

No one wants their private/semi-private chats to be indexable or searchable. The whole POINT is to not have what you say broadcast to all and sundry.

Oh my god, this IS just a launchpad for lame conspiracybros 🤦🤦🤦

No, the Moon landings were real and the images/clips you see of it online are real too. If it was faked, the USSR would have screamed to the high heavens about it. Just because you personally haven’t experienced something does not mean it can’t actually happen.

Grow the fuck up and accept reality doesn’t conform to your wishful thinking.

Oh, and the Earth is round, too, and NASA livestreams and photos of the very clearly round Earth are valid too.

Just because the majority of people believe something without thinking about it doesn’t mean it isn’t true or they’re not critical thinkers. People know what’s worthwhile to question and what’s not, and that’s a vital aspect of critical thinking you did not consider because you don’t understand or care about what it is, it’s just an emotional cudgel for you to accuse regular people of bullshit to brainwash and abuse them.

Get off of my feed. Go outside.

Inb4 “Well that’s not his point” – yes it is; he’s just trying to pretend to be reasonable to get his foot in the door. Salesmen do this shit all the time; it’s a common tactic and it’s why we know not to listen to people like him.

Because it’s not automatic and is outside of the user’s control, to start.

So, I’m just going to not buy their garbage.

The fact that it’s AI generated and not directly light-into-image makes it untrustworthy.

Like actual film photos are a lot harder to fake and therefore are more trustworthy.

In principle, that image AI software can be programmed to generate whatever it wants. It can even censor your own film footage.

Like if a revolution happens in this country next year, you bet your ass the police and military will exact atrocities on the American people to stop it, and the corporations they’re in bed with can reprogram everyone’s phones to censor out the footage of it, so genocide cannot be proven.

Watch and see it happen.

The Moon landings? Hello?

Correct. Correct …

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No one should be banned from equal internet access for any reason. 🤦🤦🤦

See, this is why I hate DeSantis and the right wing. They crow about freedom of speech from one end and shit crap like this out of the other.

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Someone needs to build a FOSS printer then.

So are there instructions out there to build your own printer with, say, a Raspberry Pi or a suitable equivalent?

You misunderstand what I mean. The reason taxes don’t work is because governments are inherently corruptible and thus can’t be trusted with our tax money. We need a decentralized, incorruptible system that can’t be wrecked or stolen from before we can talk about putting our money into anything substantial.

Cars shouldn’t require cell phone towers to function. It’s a CAR.

Literally anyone who is not a white male here IS living in a despotic dictatorship where they are oppressed with overt violence. And your tax dollars pay for that.

The systemic violence isn’t actually possible without tax dollars, especially at the state and local level.

🤔 Maybe that’s the answer to our problems. Just to not pay taxes and starve the beast.