Explains places like Reddit in a nutshell.
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Get rid of CARB and CAFE, then see if that still holds.
For this lifelong US citizen Trump's death will be one of the happiest days of my life.
Which will be dashed by someone that fills the void, and does so without meaningful opportunity to harass him with litigation.
His motto may end up being “Oderint Dum Metuant”.
The easiest solution for international online retail stores will likely be “We do not ship to the US”. Some rely on US customers but for many stores US is just one of many buyer locations.
Consider the perspective from outside; Put simply, it’s more costly now to engage with the US market.
And the answer will be a good amount of reshipping.
Nothing a good reshipper can’t get around. The fees may still happen, but the products will still be US available.
It's happening already. The affordable car market is being increasingly neglected. Ford has abandoned their best selling focus and fiesta models and are chasing a more premium market. Expect soulless Chinese models to fill in the gaps.
Not in the US they won’t.
The Chinese option would actually have to have some compelling features and marketing to overcome their significant barriers to entry.
And not being Tesla is not one of them.
Is it unreasonable not to want to share a social network with the people who want to exclude you from practical participation in society?
If you’re providing products of scientific research that have societal impact, it is a certain type of actionable cowardice to hide in a BlueSky hugbox.
Blue Sky has far more moderation. Unfortunately some of that includes limiting political view points. I always looked at BlueSky as reddit lite from that perspective. Their "respect others" rule appears to primarily apply to protecting left of center posters. Academia as a whole is left of center so I understand the overlap there.
X has almost no moderation. Its the wild wild west. You can read a thoughtful post about nutrition followed by outright antisemitism. X is the free speech platform, almost anything goes. I am a free speech maximalist though, my only limit being personal threats of violence, targeted attacks (revenge porn, pornographic image manipulation, doxxing, etc. ) other than that whatever people want to say or ideas they want to push should be debated in the public space. No censorship. Freedom of speech of course does not mean freedom from consequence. If I am spouting racist diatribe under my real name and lose my job, that's on me.
I prefer X as I like being exposed to all sorts of view points and find the more extreme posts amusing as its not something you see on the daily. I'm a jew and at one point the algorithm seemed to think I was an open neo-nazi. Was pretty funny, did not bother me at all.
Each to their own, the nice thing is that there are options.
BlueSky isn’t mere “moderation”, it is a narrative security ops platform that has the feature of social networking. It distills the worst of Reddit practices and makes them available at greater speed and scale.
X on the other hand, has a far lighter touch, opting to cutting back the ability to silence at scale and speed.
No, you can host your own server, subscribe to your own moderation services. It's a protocol like email.
Full stack, and ability to opt out of purely ideological filters that are essentially trying to mandate Dorsey Twitter?
At least with Mastodon, you weren’t tied as tightly or centrally, such that the worst one can do is balkanize instance groups as opposed to efficient narrative security ops.
And Maemo/MeeGo were basically normal Linux distributions. Right now, SailfishOS is a worthy successor. It runs on a fairly decent number of devices and is quite ready for daily usage. Following the Nokia tradition, offline maps are outstanding. There's also a proprietary Android emulation layer that works really well for most applications, in case that is needed.
SailfishOS and Jolla could challenge the duopoly if a critical mass of developers migrated to the system. Right now, there's a fairly small technical userbase that has nonetheless produced lots of great indie applications. I can't believe I had Linux in my pocket with the N770 in late 2005 and, right now, mainstream options are so locked down.