Bluesky is a corporate hedge to delay the social network business from becoming not a business, it is headed by variously naive or disengenous tech people who believe they are creating the future when they are mercenaries for the past.

That’s a great sounding description.

It’s too bad we can’t add it to their about about page.

I personally lean towards disingenuous though. Tech oligarchs and their lackeys are many things, but not naive.

They are likely trying to promote the URL in the post body as opposed to sharing this (highly generic) info on Lemmy.

Thanks for sharing. Going to read this before bed (yes, I am a nerd).

It puzzles me why he might administrate both instances.

Come on now. Does it really puzzle you why he would admin lemmygrad? I am sorry, I don’t buy this.

He made quite a lot of bad stuff, that’s true. However, he also liberated the country from foreign occupation and advanced literacy, women’s rights, basic healthcare, education, and life expectancy. China’s population nearly doubled under his leadership. This is why he is considered controversial. It’s strange to compare him with someone who occupied half of Europe.

So you’re saying that there is something inherent to Chinese culture that would not make it possible to advance literacy, women’s right, basic healthcare without mass killings and brutality? Mao is a mass murderer.

You made conclusions about his opinions yourself and are trying to argue against them. Condemn actual statements. I don’t see dessalines wishing harm on you, but I do see you doing the very thing you criticize him for.

Dessalines admins a instance that openly supports russia’s (a country that’s not in any way socialist) genocidal invasion of my country. That’s not wishing me harm?

No, he is not. Check admins section on lemmygrad.ml, which profile do you think belongs to dessalines? He is only admin of lemmy.ml.

Are you sure about that? Why does this page state that:

Lemmygrad was created by dessalines and Farmer Heck.[a] It has over 34,000 posts and over 360 active users.[2]

With a further clarification that Muad’Dibber (who is currently an admin) is dessalines

Currently known as Muad’Dibber and Black Tulip, respectively, on Lemmygrad.’

Is Muad’Dibber not dessalines?

It’s a controversial figure, but it doesn’t mean that the dev supports crimes or genocides.

Controversial figure? Mao was a brutal dictator that directly caused an inordinate amount of deaths and suffering. He is no better than Stalin, Pinochet, Hitler or Pol Pot.

Since he runs lemmygrad, he most definitely supports the genocide of Ukrainians in the occupied territories. Before you start acting out, I’d like to see you and your family try and speak Ukrainian in the occupied and try and publicly oppose russian occupaiton. I think the example I provided with the “Donbas Cowboy”, Russell Bentley, should give you an idea of what life is like there.

And then there is also their support for the genocide of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

For you this is just random internet drama. I am not going to tolerate any degenerate LARPer shilling for russia and the CCP.

You judge people who support genocide, I get it and I here with you. But wishing death upon others because of their opinions? That’s just hypocrisy.

These are not mere opinions. These scoundrels wish me, my family and my fellow citizens harm in the most pathetic way possible; by LARPing online as marxist-leninists. It is reasonable to want them to end up like “Donbas Cowboy”, Russell Bentley. This a just and fair end for Western LARPers who whitewash genocide.

My man, the head developer of lemmy is the admin of lemmygrad. He has a fucking Mao picture in his profile!

Don’t even try to weasel your way around this. This is not going to work with me.

I hate these people. Pathetic larpers living in democratic countries while supporting authoritarianism and genocide. And when I say hate, I don’t mean it in the internet slang way (“hater”).

How should I put this without breaking any rules? I genuinely wish they meet the same fate as “Donbas Cowboy”, Russell Bentley:

Bentley, 64, was a fixture in the low-level Russian incursion in Ukraine dating back to 2014. Calling himself the Donbas Cowboy, Bentley became a popular figure on Russian propaganda networks for his criticism of the U.S. government.

Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, then claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.

According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.

Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.

Calling them “socialist digital creators” is misleading at best, if not an outright insult to socialism.

They are marxists-leninists who whitewash the crimes committed by the USSR and CCP. They support the genocidal invasion by Russia, a country that is neither socialist or democratic; it’s an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy.

There is no double standard. You don’t see the CTO of reddit running a subreddit dedicated to whitewashing the Pinochet regime and/or western colonialism in Africa or Asia.

Reddit is run by sketchy and corrupt individuals, it is possible that in a just world we would even call them criminals. Lemmy’s marxists-leninists are openly supportive of genocidal actions and brutal authoritarian leadership. There is no comparison.

I don’t believe this is a Trump specific thing, at least that was the impression I got when I did get a chance to live in the US.

I am a long-time Ars reader and subscriber. I am not American, but I always found their articles on various public policy issues to be interesting and fascinating.

One particularly fascinating element is the callousness of the various “legal arguments” used to justify (and enable) various crimes/corruption schemes.

“I didn’t know this was illegal … it’s the fences fault … we sold both voice and data info, so umm it’s legal.”

Motherfuckers, you were selling real-time location of your customers to random thugs. By any real understanding of the term “justice”, you should be locked up for decades with full asset seizure.

No sane person would agree for you to sell their real-time location data to random goons. You know this and you dare to come up with this gibberish?

It’s not even so much the corruption/criminality that is fascinating (things like that happen everywhere), but the arrogance and callousness inherent to their world salad.

There is a reason the “forbidden fruit” concept was chosen for inclusion in religious texts. :)

This hasn’t been said just once though.

What is the point of this article?

Agreed. I wish the source page had a better summary of the research paper.

Perhaps that’s an opportunity, if you don’t think it’s a value trap that is.

I like that it’s a separate application. I had issues with the way OneDrive integrated with Windows/Office and conflicts with my corporate OneDrive account (this was a while ago, this may have been fixed).

I always prefer to have a full local copy (Google Drive, which a use for specific data has been really annoying with this) without using Cloud Files API or any extra features. A literal cloud sync of specific folder, nothing else.

I mostly use Dropbox out of habit (and because I have a grandfathered account). I’ve been meaning to switch to ProtonDrive (already have a paid account with them for email), just haven’t got to it yet.

One advantage of Dropbox is that it is not that integrated into Windows/office.

I use Dropbox, albeit I have an old free account with much more storage than their 2GB base.

Pichai steered around such questions on grounds that the case is in progress, but warned possible remedies “could have unintended consequences, particularly to the dynamic tech sector and the American leadership there.”

And monopolies also have consequences in terms worse pricing, fewer product offerings and less innovation.

Meta AI (I didn’t even know this was a thing) has 185 M WAUs?

Is this a real number or some sort of misleading stats where they include people are only technically using it via some sort of hook into FB/Insta (don’t use them so not aware).

Clippy 2024!

Russians are already hostile to Ukrainians my man. Saying “if you don’t treat us with respect, then we’ll really fuck you up, this is nothing!” is just another facet of russian supremacist and imperialist thinking. As are your justifications of protecting russian settler colonialism in Ukraine or Latvia.

What fucking self-fulfilling prophecy? Russians have been invading Ukraine and working on eradicating Ukrainian identity for a third of independent Ukraine’s history (and that’s just one example, there is also Moldova, Georgia, Chechnya and Belarus). Not to mention all the work russians have done on trying to eliminate Ukrainian identity in the centuries before.

Being nice to russians? How were Ukrainians not nice to russians before 2014? We decided to demonstrate self-determination?

We’ve seen how peace was brokered after 2014. So spare your fake calls for peace. You full well know that peace for most russians is just re-grouping period for another invasion and more mass murder of Ukrainians.

Buying into false allegation that the majority of russians do not want to eradicate Ukrainian identity is not going to bring peace in Ukraine.

The first step for Ukrainian society (and it’s sad that it took so much death and destruction to get there) is recognizing that:

1. A strong majority of russians are genocidal imperialists. They overwhelming supported the annexation of Crimea. At the very least a strong majority support the full scale invasion and eradication of Ukrainian identity and mass killings/torture of Ukrainians in occupied territories.
2. Russians are not going to change any time soon. Not because of some “imperialist gene” or something stupid like that, but because of the choices they make (as adults that hold responsibility for their actions).

Poland and the Baltic nations recognized this and successfully took measures to account for this (you can’t invade them and you destroy their culture).

We did not and that is why we are going through this current hell.

I dare say it’s an outcome of being nice to russians before 2014.