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they can put out arrest warrants and fines

Of course they can, but they’re unenforceable if the instance’s operator has no presence nor assets in the UK. That’s why I wrote “forced” in bold. They can issue shit, but that’s where it stops.

and possibly have the person extradited to the UK

According to Wikipedia, extradition requires that the crime is such in BOTH countries. So no, I don’t see that being an option here.

Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users’ ages identities?

If they’re located in the UK, sure. But given how small Lemmy instances are, I assume they’ll fly under the radar.

Non-UK instances won’t be forced to do anything. The UK can’t do shit outside their borders, so as long as the instance’s operator doesn’t set foot into the country, all they can do is block the instance in the UK.

I mean, it’s positive for both sides. Russia has a war economy now, they NEED to keep going or their economy will collapse. And a war with NATO might get China involved as well on their side, so it’s not like Russia would be fucked for sure.

Ukraine isn’t a US puppet btw (I assume that’s whom you mean with nazis). I do disagree with the nazi claim too, but I’m not going to be able to convince you there, so I’m not going to try either. But Ukraine isn’t a US puppet, they literally have to beg the US to help them out. A puppet wouldn’t have to ask, as their actions would be in their master’s interest in the first place. They’d get full support. Whether you believe them to be the good or the bad guys, Ukraine is in this of its own volition, not because the US or Europe told them they have to fight.

Of course he does, Russia will outlast Ukraine in the long run if NATO countries don’t start joining the fight. I don’t see how it would be a surprise that he dreams of getting actual help.

Even if Ukraine somehow wins this, the war got to be exhausting and stressful for him and everyone else involved. Getting help, or even just a second enemy for Russia to be distracted by, would be a positive for them no matter where this goes.

in fact, I follow several Lemmy accounts, and I can directly follow your account as well, right from the web interface.

Is there any point to following Lemmy users though? Like, unlike the rest of the fediverse, Lemmy doesn’t send any activities to followers. They just exist, don’t actually receive anything. Is there even any point to it then?

Yes, because this isn’t just Lemmy.

Lemmy itself is more like a forum or old Reddit. A focus on discussion and link aggregation, not people. I personally still consider it social media, but there are enough people who draw the line there. Like others said, it depends on how YOU define social media.

But this is the fediverse, not just Lemmy. I’m writing this from Mbin, which has a much bigger focus on people (you can follow users here). But you can also talk here from Mastodon. Then there’s platforms like Friendica, afaik the Facebook of the fediverse, which theoretically also have access (though I have yet to see a user from there, so idk if they’re functionally compatible with Lemmy).

Lemmy itself might or might not fit in isolation, but if an instance is connected to the fediverse, it’s definitely indirectly a social network. ActivityPub (the protocol used to connect the fediverse) is explicitly a social networking protocol as per its spec.

Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?

No central oversight. Reddit can theoretically remove the worst of the worst, but the same doesn’t apply on the fediverse. Not across instances at least. Theoretically that lack of control is why we have defederation, but no one is going to defederate over some mods being extra draconian.

As for why it’s even at a similar level to Reddit in the first place, it’s because despite the fediverse’s superiority complex, moderation on Reddit is organic, and so it is here. It’s not like Reddit tells them to be the way they are, moderators choose to be that way. And there’s no reason why they would choose to be different on the fediverse.

I think it’s worth remembering that people who seek the power of authority aren’t usually the best people. I’m not saying this applies to all moderators, but those that become moderators for the power it gives them aren’t going to be friends, no matter which platform they’re on. It’s not like the platform makes them bad, it just enables them by giving them the power.

Why is it so hard to find a non left leaning place on the Internet?

There ARE right wing Lemmy instances. They’re just usually defederated by the ones leaning left. There’s also /r/conservative on Reddit.

“You know I kind of feel Israel has a right to defend itself ya know?”

This one is definitely a big problem imo. Like, I’m not in the pro-Israel camp, but I think it’s clear this side of the fediverse is currently an echo chamber that isn’t welcoming to opposing voices, especially on that topic. But also in regards to others like AI.

Reddit is a lot better in that regard. I think there is a point to fighting disinformation and bad faith actors, but that’s not reasoning if you then allow one side’s disinformation (like the whole “AI is completely useless” narrative which is just factually false, it’s being abused for tasks it’s wildly unsuited for, but that doesn’t make it useless for what it’s designed to do) or tolerate complete faith into your side’s propaganda.

Imo this is a big barrier to the fediverse currently. I can’t in good faith recommend the fediverse to people whom I know to be right-leaning, because I know they’re going to have a bad time here.

Even posting a Fox News article in the News areas will get your post removed…with a ban of course.

I do think a ban is excessive unless you’re a repeat offender, but… it makes sense to ban articles from a self-proclaimed entertainment network which only idiots would take as news (Fox News’s official position as argued in court, not my opinion) from a News community.

I’ve noticed a LOT of generated memes and they tend to have positive votes

What’s the issue with that one in particular? Isn’t the entire point of a meme just whether it’s funny or not?

I mean, they’re low effort and unoriginal to begin with. The AI isn’t really changing anything about that.

I feel like memes is one of the few places where AI doesn’t hurt anyone at all.

Sounds like a torrent

Because it is torrenting. I clicked on the “More information” link in the popup and:

PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server. The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance’s BitTorrent tracker as long as you download or watch the video.

Source

No idea about copyright though, but I also don’t quite understand the issue there that doesn’t apply to ActivityPub itself too.