JustTesting

Yes, i hate this in these kinds of discussions. It so often devolves into how you'll be safe from surveillance by world governments (spoiler: you won't be, if they really care).

And here I am, just not wanting to hand data over to giant corporations that have been proven to use it for no good.

Heck, even if there was no good actor/solution, not giving all your data to the same bad actor is already a step up.

Actually anyone can post using the API, and many people did. Lots of the heavily publicized posts were written by humans

In my experience, the lights (even LEDs) generate enough heat that you rather want cooling, if anything

It's one of those things where as a tourist, you're completely fine and don't really notice the racism. And you probably won't get assaulted because of your race.

But the foreign sounding last name on your CV halves your chance of getting hired, servers at a restaurant will address your white friends first when taking an order, your chance of getting the apartment you applied for is lower (unless it's in the one part of town where all the foreigners live, since they don't get white applicants) etc. And a lot of europeans are completely oblivious to this.

And you still have police shooting unarmed black people, that kind of stuff, it's just way less prevalent and the media does not talk about it and there's no huge protests.

Yes it's a pretty short list and with some caveats. Actually I almost didn't double check when reading your message, as "only the US and some dictatorship" (e.g. use of metric system) is usually how these things go, but I was curious and found the wiki page.

They're still around, Tom Scott had a great video on these

I watched that like 8 times over the course of summer holiday as a teen.

My parents were on vacation, I'd borrowed it from the library and every time some friends visited, they saw the dvd and went "oh lets watch pulp fiction!".

It does lose some of it's appeal around viewing 5, but still enjoyable. But me and my one friend who was there often could almost act the whole movie by the end, so that was fun.

heck if anything, the Fediverse, as it is right now, is more susceptible to this. You can spin up spam instances on new domains, with spam users, and have them federate to existing instances, faster than volunteer run instances can ban/defederate.

So you end up with not federating by default, but having some trusted web of instances that federate and maybe an approval process for new instances to federate with? But that'll still lead to centralization with "trusted" instances and new instances having a hard time to join the club (there's also the scaling problem of the fediverse, but that's besides the point). So you end up with a few very big instances and the owners of those instances having all the power. Or maybe small isolated islands of mutually trusting instances? Still better than tech oligopoly, but also a far cry from the original dream.

is it?

Maybe with all the social media bullshit platforms being flooded with more bullshit, people will turn to more traditional, trustworthy news and good journalism? Maybe? Please? who am I kidding...

glaub da muss man nichts fürchten, wenn es schon passiert.

I feel Authentik is at the sweet spot between complexity/features (keycloak) and ease of setup (authelia)