While China holds a legally indefensible position that the straight is it’s territorial waters, so is Taiwan’s ADIZ or any claim that Chinese (or Taiwanese if they wished) planes cannot cross the midway point.

The straight is 97 nmi wide, territorial waters cannot extend beyond 12, so there’s plenty of international waters (and thus airspace) for anybody to fly on.

It’s not corporate based social with a mostly US based audience.

It was literally started because of political censorship of leftists on reddit.

They were in Italy at the time so I suppose they could have caused issues if they went full full fascist.

I believe that’s actually a legal requirement in some jurisdictions.

The thinker. Does he look like taking a shower?

I rest my case.

This post is on a beehaw community. Started by a lemmy.world user. As I understand it is on our local copy of the community that got pulled before the de-federation and only our users should be able to post on it.

Already that would be bad in my opinion since the copy is unmoderated and isolated. However it appears that some users replying are actually from other instances (not beehaw of course). This can only create confusion and further ‘issues’ with beehaw.

Sure, used it at a job this past year, writer and calc.

After spending a couple of days to secure a PC to be able to do my job I was not going to spend another week getting them to find me an office license.

Had no issues with sharing documents with colleagues (except excel not parsing a regex from calc) or with the public. Way more issues with people not actually understanding how to use word and excel and do proper formatting. Calc also had a gui method to multi-criteria filtering that the various versions of excel around the office did not.

I also used Impress to edit some PDFs for another older gig. Bit clunky and you must have the fonts used in the original. Just remember a pdf may be a hassle to edit but it is editable and not proof of anything (on it’s own).

What link did you use to post the image? I think using the direct link (the one including the extension and no tags) will not add anything but the image.

You can get it by right clicking on the image on imgur and copying image address or opening the image in a new tab and copying from the address bar.

It should and any users should refrain from making alts on other instances and participating in beehaw’s communities because you will be empowering them to repeat this again.

Instead you should join communities on other instances. There is an argument to join communities here on lemmy.world and on just.works that got de-federated as a counterbalance to any pressure from beehaw on other instances to de-federate them as well.

Would it be possible to implement Settings -> Show Read as an option in your actual feed next to subscribed/local/all and sort type dropdown for easier access? Basically making the Settings option the default but quickly changeable when browsing.

It was beehaw that did it. Not .world . Beehaw was the second largest instance before the reddit exodus. Second only to the devs’ instance lemmy.ml which beehaw users missed no chance in telling you it’s run by tankies!

1. They will probably be defederated when they start getting VC money. They may try to hide it but if the money is supposed to help them dominate it will be difficult to do.

2. Let’s say they have the money. How are they going to use it to dominate?

Just having better hardware? That would only be attractive if the rest of lemmy cannot handle the traffic. In that case lemmy would be doomed anyways. Paying people to post stuff and drive activity? People will talk and the whole business case is you don’t pay for content, users provide it for free. Same arguments apply for hired moderators. Forking the software? Major changes and features without any willingness to contribute back to the project will get them defederated, especially when VC backing becomes know.

3. Even if they succeed, lemmy won’t go away. Sure some instances will close but the main instance existed before the reddit issue. I don’t see those users hoping to a corporate instance this keeping non VC lemmy alive. When VC lemmy starts becoming shitty it’s users will be much more likely to dump it for lemmy. They all have migrated away from a much more mainstream and bigger platform anyways. VC lemmy to normal lemmy would not be an issue.

How exactly does the instance with ads become large enough to set terms and defederate other instances out of existence?

People don’t really prefer ads. They can just use federated instances to access any content without seeing ads. The communities themselves can join another ad free instance.

That could work somewhat if it was an option on the actual feed next to subscribed/local/all and sort type.

The problem is that since beehaw was the second largest instance before the reddit wave they had quite large communities already. So they naturally will attract subs. In fact they probably attracted quite a few from the two instances that now can’t access them and probably can’t actually unsub from.

With lenny.ml and other instances able to access them it’s likely they will be the community for at least some topics. Which we won’t be able to access. So it’s not as simple as let them do their own thing and we do ours.

This could lead to people leaving the blocked instances for others with access to the big communities. Till those instances run afoul of beehaws sensibilities. With lemmy as a whole losing users each time.