Well-behaved server software honors delete requests, but there are a bunch of ways for that to fail without anyone doing anything malicious:

• If your instance shuts down, there is no way for you to generate delete requests
• If a server admin has to restore a backup from before your request, the deleted data will be restored
• Immature or experimental software may not work as designed; Lemmy itself has a version number starting with 0
• Archiving services may keep snapshots of pages from fediverse servers; here’s your user page on lemmy.world on archive.org
• Fediverse servers often make content available by RSS, and RSS clients may store that content; there’s no way for them to receive a signal that it should be deleted

And then there’s malicious activity. It wouldn’t be hard to run a server that speaks ActivityPub, subscribes to a bunch of stuff, pretends to honor delete requests, and actually keeps everything.

Deletion will always be unreliable on the fediverse as long as it runs on technology that looks anything like current implementations.

Some people have specific long-term goals in mind for relationships; some just enjoy living in the present; most are somewhere between. Nobody else can say which is right for you.

Another commenter wrote that you’re probably about 18 years old. You may not know which of the above best describes you, and that’s perfectly normal at that age. I hesitate to tell anyone else what to do in their personal life, but if a compelling opportunity comes along that conflicts with your relationship, whether it’s another prospective relationship or moving away for school or work, remember that your boyfriend won’t prioritize your relationship when his parents find an Arab girl for him to marry.

You are not going to find a satisfying answer to this question. It’s one I’ve been asking for a long time.

I could say “sadism”, but that’s almost tautological. The obvious follow-up is “but why are they sadists?”, and I don’t know that. It’s likely people who aren’t sadists can’t really know that, and people who are would probably fail at explaining it, were they inclined to try.

The best explanation I can manage is that someone who’s feeling bored and powerless might feel a little less bored and powerless for a moment if they can make someone else sad or angry. A person who actually gets off on that sort of thing is likely not all that intelligent or creative, so they fail at finding better entertainment.

If you’re still left wondering “but why?”, good. You’re probably not a sadist.

I must also point out that he did not work at Reddit between 2009 and 2015.

I’m not going to try to talk you out of hating spez, but maybe try hating him for something he actually did.

It was created by Violentacrez, not spez.

Prior to late 2012, it was possible to make someone a moderator of a subreddit without their consent, which was sometimes done as a joke or harassment. That’s why spez was briefly a moderator of r/jailbait.

They’re definitely not going to run out of oxygen. They might experience mild symptoms from elevated carbon dioxide or allergens.

Instances subject to the legal systems of jurisdictions with age verification laws probably need the feature to exist to continue operating legally.

I don’t think the current structure of any of those laws would require instances to demand verification from other instances, and any instance operator who did such a thing would be socially unacceptable to the current population of the fediverse.

Electric shocks for behavior merely deemed undesirable or noncompliant are barbaric.

I could imagine them being justified to prevent self-injury when other options have been exhausted. Perhaps they’re preferable to constant restraint or sedation.

What do you think of Discovery Klingons? It seems like they came and went with little explanation, while the early TOS human-looking Klingons did get an explanation in canon eventually.

Thanks for doing this here instead of corporate social media.

Either the AI bubble pops and the demand drops, or the AI industry becomes stable and supply increases.

I’m inclined to bet on the bubble popping. There are real businesses to be built on top of generative AI, but most of the current players have high costs and a long way to go before their revenue comes even close.

I haven’t found anything I want to install on my iPhone that I can’t. At one point it was emulators

So you have found something you wanted to install on your iPhone that you couldn’t, but Apple has decided to allow it for now. I think it’s pretty obvious how this is a problem.

Of course you’re not going to find apps that exist that you can’t install because Apple says so. People won’t bother making them if they can only be distributed to the tiny handful of users with jailbroken devices. Of course it comes up on occasion when Apple withdraws permission, with ICEBlock being the recent socially important case.

Way I see it, my iPhone is a pocket version of my Mac.

The thing is, you can install software from whatever source you like on your Mac. That’s not true of your iPhone - even in the EU and Japan where they’ve been forced to open up a little, apps can only be installed with Apple’s permission.

Macs were completely open in that regard until recently. You could install apps from wherever you want. Now, Mac apps have to be notarized by Apple or installing them requires use of the command line. That’s obnoxious, but the user still has the final say, unlike the iPhone.

(“Linux” here as in “GNU/Linux”, as opposed to “the Linux kernel”, which Android phones also use.)

I feel compelled to point out that PostmarketOS, one of the popular Linux phone options is not, in fact GNU. It’s based on musl and BusyBox, not glibc and GNU utils.

• Google has announced that a workflow for advanced users to install whatever they want will remain, but hasn’t published details. Many people don’t entirely trust them about this.
• Third-party Android builds like LineageOS won’t be affected. These need a device with an unlockable bootloader. They can run any Android app that doesn’t intentionally sabotage them (some banking apps do this).
• Linux distributions for phones exist, and can run Android apps via Waydroid. This provides the most freedom for the user, but the highest effort. This is mainly suited for Linux hobbyists right now.

this is clearly a breach of the DMA

Is it? I think the DMA should have been written so that it is, but Apple does essentially the same thing and EU regulators don’t seem to be claiming that it’s a violation.

Medical cannabis cards are not prescriptions, and cannabis remains illegal for medical use under federal law in the USA.

There have been attempts to interpret this as meaning that someone with a medical cannabis card may not legally own a firearm, but when the question has gone to court recently, judges have usually disagreed,

The best thing about Pixels for me is the no-fuss bootloader unlock, but an unlocked bootloader is already a prerequisite for running LineageOS.

With Magisk and Play Integrity Fix, mostly yes. As it comes. mostly no.

In this context, I think two operating systems are in the same family if software for one can be recompiled for another with minimal changes without heavyweight compatibility libraries.

In that sense, I would put BSD and traditional desktop Linux distributions in the same family even though they don’t share low-level code, and I would exclude Android even though it uses the Linux kernel.

This is a forum.

Forums and blogs could be classed as social media, but they predate widespread use of the term, and are fundamentally different from the corporate social platforms.

It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.