The thing is, Canadian provinces have long lacked the impetus to actually try and work together on anything, especially the economy, because the US is a giant crutch. And the country has consistently worked to worsen the rights of Canadians in the name of gaining access to US markets.
This all hurts both countries. But walking away from an abusive relationship hurts, too.
Erm, but, uh... There's nothing about decentralization that makes it inherently ad free. We currently have an ad-free network of sites, but we also used to have an ad-free web.
Decentralization does not solve this. The only reason there's no ads here is that they haven't arrived yet.
The CEO of my company knows I exist now, and has spontaneously dropped an important project in my lap. As much as I love recognition and an opportunity to show off, this kind of attention from someone with this much power over me is kind of crushing.
Keep it coming, Donny. The more to bolster east/west trade within Canada, rather than north/south trade with the US, the better. Trump's going to build a stronger Canada.
Millions of people were killed by Stalin
Ok, but was Stalin a communist? Because the USSR sure as hell didn't seem like a classless, stateless society
Postmedia also now owns Saltwire, which operated most of the major newspapers in Atlantic Canada: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaltWire_Network
The front end and back end of Lemmy are decoupled. This means you're using lemmy through a web app amd API, and it also means third parties can create alternatuve front ends.
There's an increasing number of them.
The "old" front end is one of these. It doesn't ship with Lemmy, and needs to be installed and maintained separately by the site's admins. Not everyone is going to bother, any more than they're going to bother hosting Tesseract or Voyager.
Oh yeah, the American Empire is over. By the time anyone else is willing to trust the US again, it will no longer be important enough to care about its hissy fits.
They've been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we're "allowed" to tell them to eat shit?
Any deal with Trump is no deal at all. He's the kind of guy that, if you give an inch, starts waving his hands around about how you stole 16 inches from him, and how you must be thrown in a hole somewhere.
Granting him anything is telling him that you are weak and ripe to be exploited.
Never have, never will.
So, here's the funny thing about "never will". It's not a promise you can go back on. "Never will" means "forever won't".
Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all "nuanced" and weasel-wordy about it doesn't change that.
Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla's better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.
It sounds like community pruning is the better solution here. Users don't need to find dead remote communities in their search results. If there are multiple active communities, that's not an issue, and there's no real reason to homogenize them behind lizard brain FOMO. If there's one active community and 6 dead ones, there's no reason for users to find any of the dead ones.
Forcibly merging communities that exist on completely different websites just because they run the same, or even just similar, software continues to scream "I want centralization".