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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I don’t understand the lemmy but it seems like a big problem with social media platforms are them seemingly acting as a natural monopoly.

    Once people are on a specific platform and posting, then even if the platform falls behind or the individuals in power start acting in egregious ways the inertia is enough to keep them going for a very, very long time as the shock of leaving the platform costs an individual user far more than putting up with the stale progress and bad behavior.

    Having the ‘content’ detached and free, accessible to all would seemingly solve this issue. AFAIK lemmy still keeps content proprietary? Just on a decentralized system. Maybe the next step is mandating module[?] transparency for incorporation into the federation.

    Or I could be completely wrong and this already happens?












  • I only superficially agree with this take because of the many cultural implications of marriage. E.G. Kids, housing, money. Decisions that
    may carry serious implications and cannot easily be undone should not be rushed into.

    With that said, marriage is not a prerequisite to any of these potentially problematic aspects of relationships, which makes the entire idea of the restriction-by-association a bit silly. Especially because it is not placed on ‘new’ relationships, merely on the the transferring of relationship statuses in a very particular manner.

    I think marriage itself is a bit of an antiquated institution that needs a modern re-work to better fit it to societal needs.

    I fully support the current marginal waiting periods for marriage licenses because I feel like this minor barrier does not meaningfully inconvenience the vast majority but may prevent cases of abuse or caprice.

    TL:DR - Liberalism and guardrails.