I honestly don't know for sure. Maybe it's cached on whatever instance your using, or maybe your instance is pulling the content directly from the target instance's database (or more likely an API-like ActivityPub request to the target instance).
I was under the impression that lemmy/fediverse essentially functions like email. Your messages and content are stored on your server, but you can communicate with anyone on other servers.
That sounds more like a social problem than a technical one...
The legal system is so detached from reality when it comes to technology that it leads to this kind of horseshit where someone, before any court proceedings proving guilt are even started, is subject to extreme and unjust punishment.
Privacy on the internet is a lifeline at this point and they might as well be cutting off his water or electricity, which would be only slightly more egregious. But the people who create legislation and operate the judicial system are comprised largely of crusty old boomers who need a secretary just to send an email or open a fucking PDF. They are information troglodytes who are simply incompatible with the modern world.
When was this? I was in high school during the early 00's. There were no cell phones, not because of policy, but because they just weren't commonplace.
Good goooood, let the split crumble the PC's from the inside
I do feel for the girl in this article for whom it was used as a coping mechanism for bullying. No policy comes with zero downsides
Right, it's kind of a trolley problem. Is it better to do lesser harm through action (banning cell phones, meaning a few students like this can't reach their family during school hours), or greater harm through inaction (loose cell phone policy, harming the learning process for everyone, inviting violence against teachers who are competing against addictive algorithms for their students' attention)?
Cell phones barely existed when I was in school and were certainly out of reach for students. Bullying still happened (personal experience, yay) and staff would shut that shit down when they saw it or it was reported.
Right? This is going to sound all kids-these-days, but I remember when I was told to leave my personal laptop at home when I tried to use it in a computer class for the express purpose of learning the material in that class.
CONSTANTS: oh yes daddy, don't stop
A surprisingly adept point from a conservative of all people. Blind squirrels, broken clocks, etc.
Then again, maybe he was speaking just generally enough to evoke the audience sentiment biased by their own leanings and preconceived notions. I read it as, "social media is enabling the far right whackjobs to coordinate and pull stunts like blockades that cost the country's economy literally billions in a matter of weeks", but looking at the predictably shitshow of a comment section, those same whackjobs are using it as a yet another opportunity to decry ThAt TroODoPe hAs To gO.
I'm certainly not Trudeau's biggest fan, but I'll take it over the unrecognizable hellscape the PC's would turn our country into.
It's not just spending more time though. If they splinter out into the fediverse, that's not too bad, but the major downside of independent forums was that you needed to register an account for every single niche and obscure site, many of which had restrictions and weird requirements for registration, posting, and participation, and generally had a far less reach than reddit.
Reddit is just one account for everything. Technically, the fediverse can be this, but then, the pitfall here is the volatility of instances. What happens when an operator decides they can't manage it anymore? Or they're situation changes and they can't afford to? Or they pass away? Or any number of scenarios? Sure, you can just re-register in another instance, but whatever information had accumulated in that instance is now blackholed. It's just gone.
Reddit won't likely go out completely any time soon, and the wealth of existing knowledge will continue to be reachable, but it will become continually less useful for new queries. Now there's an empty space.
If Lemmy wants to fill that space, it's volatility needs to be addressed. I've mentioned this before, but I think the simplest way to address this would be to implement mirror instances, with the sole purpose of being a real-time redundancy for other instances in case they go down.
I meant harm in that it affects "one or a few students" rather than affecting "practically all students."