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Researchers pay for publication, and then the publisher doesn't pay for peer review, then charges the reader to read research that they basically just slapped on a website.

It's the publisher middlemen that need to be ousted from academia, the researchers don't get a dime.

Solaar seems to work fine. Honestly Linux's third party software often supports hardware better than the Windows first party software.

Then why is there the option of defederating at all?

In an email to friends, I could see these coming off as rude. But at least in my region, they come off as professional and concise.

You can be ousted with a lot of popular support if you really piss off a small number of people. A leader has more wiggle room with high popular support and a strong military and police force, but if those institutions weaken, then the possibility of a violent overthrow increases.

Russia's population is ~143 million. If even 1 in 1000 people take up arms, that's a 143,000 strong army. If 1% participate in a general revolt, that's 1.4 million people, which could easily overwhelm institutions and bring an already weakened economy down.

You posted the exact same image here. You should probably read the sidebar, especially rule 3: "No Spam."

If major companies want to be on the fediverse, they're welcome to make their own kbin/lemmy/mastodon accounts.

Yes, absolutely. People will frequently use either term interchangeably when talking about electricity. It's less likely in a scientific or engineering context of course, but it occasionally does happen.

This kind of ruling would make sense for a $20 bicycle, but I'd expect the bar for mutual agreement to be higher for a shipment of $60,000 worth of flax.

And the idea of them taking on the risk is absurd. Corporations are legal constructs with the explicit intent of insulating owners from the downside risks of their companies. If they actually wanted to take on the risk, they'd just pay everyone from their checking account, if the corporation goes bankrupt, they go bankrupt.

With the hazard that such a large organization has, and the likely vested interest Meta has in destroying or absorbing the Fediverse, I feel that the default should be defederate, and only if Meta has proven to be acting in good faith, we can federate with them.

For the most part, you can browse different instances from any of them. You can make accounts on others if you particularly like the community or interface, but you don't get much of an advantage.