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Nothing, though instances outside the US would have less reason to.

Only benefit is that it's fragmented so there's fewer people any individual instance can give information on.

Nothing. There also nothing to prevent instances to be ran by anyone. Lemmy is about sharing information with low regulation not privacy.

You would probably be fine depending on your color :/

Canadian here. One of my girlfriends lives in Ohio.

She comes to visit us. Not the other way around. Even if this administration burns to the ground, it's going to take a long time to renew my trust in America to ever step foot in that country again. I used to travel there. I used to deliver there as a truck driver. I spent a lot of time in America.

Not anymore. I'm in my late 30s and I may never visit America ever again after this.

Exactly. They can meet my machete.

same. Reddit has become crap

Not quite perma'd but I did get banned from a default sub recently over a banal comment that some power tripping cuck power mod didn't like and saw as ban-worthy. Not even gonna bother appealing it because I know in true Reddit fashion they'll respond with a "fuck you" and 28 day modmail mute, then cwy hawassment to the admins if I try to push it any further.

Maybe this is a sign that Reddit truly is turning to shit.

I'm not making it to the slave camps, and me, my crossbows, and my knives are taking as many of them with me as I can

MIght happen a lot sooner than you think. Do you remember yahoomail?

MIght happen a lot sooner than you think. Do you remember yahoomail?

Amazon, Microsoft and Google run so much cloud infrastructure that it's not in the power of ordinary peasants like us to even make a dent in their business. When we use pretty much anything online we're helping support them. And US corporations have little incentive to leave those services because the end users don't even know what they use for their backends. Foreign governments and companies are the main organizations that have the power to make an impact on big US tech by taking their cloud business elsewhere.

I wouldn't count on that. People are too lazy to change.

Google are still a major player because they hold monopolies in several markets. I see them as "too big to fail."

No other platform does long form user-generated video content like YouTube. The only other smartphone, tablet and smart watch OS that even holds a candle to Android is a walled garden exclusive to the Apple ecosystem. Even in search they hold a near-total monopoly with around 85 - 95% of all search traffic going through them (depending on which source you ask and if they consider ChatGPT a search engine.) Even Microsoft offering gift card rewards for using Bing search wasn't enough to convince people to try them.

Even in markets where they don't have a monopoly.... GMail is the most popular free email service, Fiber has silently grown to have service in 19 US states despite significant pushback and lobbying from rival internet service providers, they're the only viable alternative to Microsoft in the office productivity software market, virtually every major web browser except for Firefox is built on Chromium, even Waymo is the only (non-Chinese) robotaxi service currently in operation although that market is potentially going to blow up.

Even in the generative AI market they're not only whooping OpenAI's and Microsoft's asses, but can reliably hedge their bets on AI if the bubble does start burst.

Don't worry, they'll be punished, and you'll never hear from them again. For example, have you ever heard of Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Ford, Fanta, BMW, Siemens, Bayer, or IBM?

Just installed Blorp and created this account.

Been meaning too, but my 3rd party app just became useless because of their API BS, so there's that too.