I don’t get why people are so interested in the fediverse.
Because Mastodon is Twitter without the possibility of an Elon Musk and Lemmy/Piefed is Reddit without the possibility of a Steve Huffman. You clearly feel that you can do better than the collective efforts of the ActivityPub devs so I am rooting for you!
"Lemmy" is actually not a platform like Reddit, it's software and the network of instances running that software is decentralized (Lemmy uses the ActivityPub protocol) meaning each instance is operated by a different person (or group). There are also other similar softwares like Piefed and mBin that work pretty well with Lemmy. That is all to say that if an Admin or Mod is "getting fascisty" you can block that instance, join another, or even create your own. That's the beauty of ActivityPub!
The only thing I’m aware of that they do even remotely better than anyone else is privacy.
Where did you hear this? Its my understanding that they are one of the worst when it comes to privacy.
If your legs are the primary driver then you do not have the type of vehicle the law is targeting.
Electric vehicles with a throttle (what the law is targeting) can absolutely be used as motorcycles. Hence why CA feels motorcycle-like vehicles need to be reclassified. What the law is targeting are functionally motorcycles/mopeds with pedals attached.
Exactly, one look at the photo used in the article:
Illustrates that this is not about regulating bicycles but electric mopeds/motorcycles.
Also this law is not a ban on throttles it just (correctly imo) reclassifies electric motorcycles as motor vehicles.
This law regulates vehicles with a throttle AKA what most people would consider an electric motorcycle. ebikes (meaning e-bicycles that you need to pedal to move) are unaffected.
Matrix.org & the servers they run, which was originally funded by Israeli Intelligence
Can you elaborate on this? The only connection I was able to find to Israel at all is that the British people who originally created the protocol worked for an American company (amdocs) that was founded in Israel in 1982, but bought out in 1985 long before Matrix was developed. Furthermore, Amdocs hasn't funded the development of Matrix since 2017 and the current Matrix.org foundation is based in the UK.
I'm too scared to read this comment because it might contain more puns
Truly amazing how many journalists have drank the big tech kool-aid.