Wow, dude. Get back to your echo chamber. You’re brittle and shrill outside of it.

Well, my ISP doesn’t need to know anything about my posts. And the fediverse doesn’t need to know who I am beyond “growingentropy,” so…

Did you just do the “if you don’t have anything to hide, what’s the big deal” move?

I want privacy. That’s all.

No idea. I installed a VPN on my router to get privacy. That’s all I ask.

I have a router with a VPN. I’m not disabling that just to post on lemmy.world.

I got off lemmy.world because they block VPN connections. Not happening, under any circumstances. I don’t trust anyone that much.

Yes, absolutely. We should all be concerned with the source of our ideas and even our memes, as dumb of a concept as that is.

The repercussion to bad speech and ideas is inherent to the current paradigm of the internet: downvotes and ostracization.

Maybe they will wind up on their own forum saying despicable shit, but they were probably going to do that anyway. Bad ideas love a vacuum away from prying eyes and outsiders.

I’m just going to throw in a bit at the end of this thread here, as I find the conversation fascinating.

This is how fascism starts. “We have to control speech for your own good” becomes “hateful speech comes from [insert group]” becomes “we have to stop them.”

We are all being weaponized by the internet. Free speech is important. You don’t fight fascism with more fascism, you fight it with better ideas.

I don’t miss anything from Reddit, I’m just sad that some of the homogeneity of thought came over here to Lemmy.

The last paragraph is vital. Grab a flatpak of any software you need to be more up to date. Flatpaks running on Debian are amazing. Current software running on a stable base.

I have yet to meet the random animal that I dislike more than the average human.

I have no formal tech background, but I’m pretty damn good with it. And I like Arch and Debian with XFCE.

The racists are going to be the vast minority of Ye’s audience. Statistically negligible. Some people are just surface-level low-intelligence beatheads who like the music.

R. Kelly had to go to jail to get people to stop listening to his music, and I don’t recall people advocating for pedophilia on his behalf.

Oh no. This whole thing quickly turned into yet another opinionated divisive fedposting shithole.

I don’t think real conversations of the type you would respectfully have in person exist on the Internet anymore.

I thought maybe this place would be a little smarter than that, but it kind of sucks now.

Wait, you’re not making your sexuality and gender your identity?

Loser.