Now that I’ve started playing around with my own lemmy instance I guess it’s fitting for possibly my last beehaw post to reflect my first.

I see discord’s business model is still burning cash trying to be the next slack steam zoom reddit patreon

Changed it to the oc source. Here is an archive as well

Yes we do have a monarch, but he isn’t involved in government except for pageantry.

This is not true. The Monarchy directly intervenes in government without transparency or accountability.

Scan QR for price is the same as “call for quote”… if you feel the need to conceal your prices then they are obviously not good, I won’t waste my time confirming the obvious and simply go elsewhere.

If you exceed 100 asshole units then you will be autobanned by one of the cyborg mods.

AP does push the data load onto volunteers (the operators of servers) but those volunteers gain some autonomy in doing so. The important part of that quoted segment is that bluesky has distributed the costs but not the authority, in other words taxation without representation.