No, that's not a cat, that's a cat:
[meme] Being forced to drive isn't freedom — it's a government-mandated lifetime subscription to oil
There's no need to buy in bulk when the shop is a 2 minute walk away. You just pop in whenever you want.
Most locks are similar, he now only shows details for unusual locks.
This is a very silly conspiracy theory. Big corps don't give a shit about Lemmy, but there are plenty of script kiddies who want to hack easy targets. Contrary to your belief, there are plenty of dumb idiots with plenty of badness in their hearts.
Java is getting better each year plus Kotlin works in the same eco system and is hyper popular. I don't think that Java will wither any time soon.
Heat pumps ARE AC. Also your fridge.
That's just one language - the language of funny symbols.
If the communities you like to read and post to are down, then Fediverse is effectively down for you. Thus it doesn't offer any additional resilience, it's not a P2P system.
Original Skype was mine blowing at the time because it was able to send files peer to peer even when people were behind firewalls. Peer to peer file transfers were the norm at the time, but when both parties were behind firewall file transfers wouldn't work, obviously. Skype used different hacks like UDP punch to establish P2P connection and if everything failed then it would fall back to proxying.
Go back to Reddit with this logic.
Lemmy is just getting started and way too many people are talking about defederation for any reason possible. What is even the point of a federated platform if everyone's trying to defederate? If you don't like federation so much, go use Facebook or something.
Tankies are modding many communities here as well. The solution is to fight them tooth and nail.