Perhaps I worded it poorly, but my point was that companies shouldn’t go bankrupt when they make a mistake.

If you keep doing it after you’ve been told, then you’re no longer just making a mistake it’s obviously malicious, but I don’t think then Apple should go bankrupt when they incorrectly implement a new law.

While I personally don’t think it’s accidental, you should be more lenient towards a first offense for any new law (unless you can prove it was intentional, which is incredibly hard).

While true, 568m is a significant cost of doing business. Also remember that a punitive action should not make the company go bankrupt, it should make them rethink.

And if they don’t, the fines will go higher, until they do rethink.

Steam is equally shitty, they just have the advantage of not being publicly traded which means they can create long term strategies and execute them successfully.

Doesn’t mean they’re pro consumer.

Somewhere in between that weird guy and jaded outcast.

Another likely cause: you’re posting to a non-local community and you got hit by federation issues, while your instance thinks the post got created, the target instance doesn’t know about it.

Happened to me a few times.

Changed it to murderous to avoid confusion, it did read a little weird.

That’s because our fans are going full speed because of bad Linux drivers. We have to be loud to hear ourselves over them.

Lemmy.ml bans you for shit and giggles, basically if you don’t agree that murderous dictators are the future, you will very likely be banned. If you’re new to Lemmy and happen to stumble upon .ml first (and are not a red fascist), you’ll get the same treatment.

Lemmy.ml is still a big instance, so chances of this happening are pretty high.

I’ll take pessimist takes on technology over calling everything porn any day.

Every troll server gets defederated from by everyone. And every troll gets banned on the normal servers. I think the federated nature is a blessing, those assholes have their own part of the internet which is usually far from my part of the internet.

I said better, not more secure. It’s not as easy to accidentally leak the message. It’s equally easy to intentionally leak it.

I mean, have you ever read anything about any dictatorship?

But if you officially operate somewhere, they can sue you, I thought that was common knowledge?

Anyway, not complying with local laws and operating in the country can get you in some serious trouble. And the trouble will escalate until you comply or pull out of the country.

Kim Jong Un can sue anyone. Like, they can sue Signal if they want. Sure, they have no way to enforce it, but they can sue (and win the case). It’s not like this would be a first, that happened quite a few times. Especially in dictatorship.

There is a reason: you will be sued out of existence. And the bit about North Korea made me laugh, so thanks.

Yep. Sadly, Lemmy will move on to implement this exact horrible mess in future versions.

The current ChatMessage approach is much better than crazy shenanigans with to/cc/mentions.

I shared a bit about exactly this here: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmings.world/comment/14476151

Using Laravel as a framework should be the first red flag, I yet have to meet a Laravel dev who understands architecture (and I interviewed quite a bit of them). That framework is several anti-patterns bundled into a nice package.

I actually like how Lemmy handles it, it warns you that it’s unencrypted and that it recommends Matrix

It also uses an entirely separate AP type that’s not used for anything else (ChatMessage) unlike Mastodon which uses Note, which is also used for: Mastodon posts and comments, Lemmy comments, most likely others.

ChatMessage type also has strict requirements about recipients, the chances to leak them are slimmer. Additionally, if the target app does not support the type, it’s very unlikely it will handle it at all, but Note will most likely be handled in some way.

In conclusion, Lemmy PMs are very hard to leak accidentally (still very easy to leak intentionally).

Sadly, Lemmy will be moving to Mastodon-style PMs.

You know they can’t legally operate there if they don’t follow the law, right?

Pulling out is the only form of protest they have as a company. The rest is up to its users.

Anyway, if it happened, you could still use Signal anyway, perhaps with the help of a relay like other countries who prefer spying over privacy.

I did elaborate a bit in a sibling comment.