“Soccer is like chess, just without dice.”

(no, this was never a serious quote; “Fußball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel” started as a satirical quote by a German comedian)

It would probably be easiest to do that with an automod bot… but I don’t think there are many benefits to it. After all don’t we want there to be a lot of content and engagement so that this place can become a good place to find information, interaction and entertainment?

I often post more than 2 posts per day to the same community simply because more than one interesting and relevant thing about the community’s topic happened on the same day. When I post the first one, I can’t yet predict how many more there will be on the same day, so can’t yet prioritize in order to not exceed the limit.

Data scraping, there’s not really anything or not much that can or should be done about it. ActivityPub is, as the name implies, intended to be mostly public. If something is public, it’s public.

Bots, that is a more interesting question that may become more relevant in the future.

Krita does, but that’s only suitable for tablets, it’s a ported desktop app.

If that is so, which I do not know, the only logical explanation is that people who are already unhappy, for unrelated reasons, are more likely to need to find at least some happiness in their lives by participating in online communities.

I would never have believed it possible that almost all politicians of ostensibly democratic countries almost simultaneously agree to prevent young people from having fun, being happy and finding meaning and fulfillment in their lives. How do these people think of themselves as the good guys?

You can do whatever you want; the thing is that if you’re not an EU citizen, you can’t vote in elections to the European Parliament, so MEPs don’t have an incentive to take your positions into consideration; you can’t vote them out after all.

I honestly do not get why “touch grass” became a common phrase/meme around a decade after many people got mobile Internet access (through smartphones).

Before that, it would have made sense because you’d usually only be posting on the Internet when you’re somewhere inside where there’s a computer; but now that we can literally be posting online while lying on grass?! How did this happen?

Report, downvote, ignore. Community moderators and instance admins can ban users.

Nope, not mocking you.

I see the word time a lot of times here too.

Me too (whether Linux is an OS depends on how you define the term) and that’s why it’s such a silly post to make. If there weren’t anyone who thought KDE was better than GNOME, why would KDE still exist?

This so much.

Gen 3 Pokémon games which I mainly played as a preteen were basically my second home, I knew almost everything there was to know about them.

Games I played later in life, including later Pokémon games, I mostly forgot the details after playing.

I used to eat sushi with a fork and it is possible. But that’s really about the only food that’s easier to eat with chopsticks than fork and knife.

Here on Austrian TV, there was an excellent example of this just yesterday during the match against Argentina, where the commentary helpfully told us at some random point in the second half that in the last four world cup matches Austria played in, they scored a goal during extra time, the implication being that that would probably happen again now (it didn’t)…

The last four world cup matches Austria played in were… one in 2026 and three in 1998.

You’re talking about two different "OP"s.

The OP of this post isn’t banned on lemmy.ml, but the OP of the post that this thread is about (i.e. that can’t be seen there) is: https://lemmy.ml/u/breadsmasher@lemmy.world

The first two depend on centralized services and nonfree software, which are things I don’t like. The third doesn’t. The fourth doesn’t have to.

So by those metrics I like cryptocurrency the most. In fact I have invested a bit of my savings in Bitcoin. I have never used Uber or AirBnB meanwhile.

Can’t I just ask it for the seahorse emoji once in a while and achieve the same result or something…

I agree with much of that, but not the things after “bring down the [list of companies]”.

I agree we need to bring them down, but not through governmental regulations and fines, but by us (the general public) building replacements for them. Like the thing we’re using here.

All that state regulation will do is make that harder because that regulation will also apply to those replacements and make sure nobody can ever operate anything that replaces them unless they have enough revenue to comply with those regulations.

The EU is planning to do something along those lines, as I understand it.

But that’s completely beside the point because it’s not a good idea in the first place to prohibit young people from participating in online communities. Participating in online communities is a fun, fulfilling and mostly harmless activity that improves many young people’s mental health, creativity, communication skills, and probably has other benefits too. I wouldn’t be the person I am now if I hadn’t started doing that regularly at age 10.

We shouldn’t be talking about “actually it’s about surveillance” or thinking about less privacy-invasive ways to achieve the same goal. We should be saying “if your goal is to reduce the amount of young people on social media, or the time they spend there, then your goal is wrong”.