Equally? Exponentially.

Anyone who's worked private sector, especially as a subcontractor, knows that private industry is entirely bloat. For every one productive hour of labor, there's 10 hours of bullshit middle management and admin work.

That's a bit complicated. Account handling is by nature of federation, linked to your source instance. There is discussion on GitHub about moving account export up the chain just to help people move from lemmy.ml to other instances.

Keep that discussion pinned and if you want you can see if you can help with a PR if you're able.

Even then this would just let you download your data, not necessarily migrate it to another instance because each instance runs with it's own Postres database and the user comments and such on that instance are linked to that database. So if that database goes, that data goes.

Because Lemmy is open source, the only danger is a fork that removes compatibility. We've already dealt with this early on in the project with hexbear forking off (for good reasons, that instance has a lot of added features like pronoun flair and emotes). But that's coming to an end soon as hexbear is working on upstreaming back to Lemmy's main branch and should be open to federation this time next week.

Yeah, badges of distinction are one of the reddit things that Lemmy is trying to get away from.

This system is closer to old message boards than Reddit.

What the hexbear instance has done is include a donation tally in the footer and occasionally promote featured posts calling for donations when they're needed.

Paid staff at least have the excuse of being in it for the money lol

Zero tolerance for fascists, and zero tolerance for state propagandists.

The fact that Lemmy is federated means you don't need to be tolerant of anyone and if they want to keep spewing bigotry and lies. If you make it impossible for them to exist in an instance they'll have to either give up or spool up their own instance that we can isolate.

Because running an instance requires some organization, maintenance, and money, anything that becomes too isolated from the rest of the fediverse will eventually die out.

I agree with the conclusion that we should rid ourselves of guilt and shame, but I think that the problem is how much capitalist propaganda makes us suppress/ignore guilt and shame instead of exploring it and reconciling those emotions with our conditions.

Just saying "I shouldn't feel guilty or ashamed" misses the opportunity to explore where those emotions came from. Like stealing from a co-worker or an old woman should make you feel guilty because you're directly effecting that person's conditions and means of subsistence, but stealing from your boss shouldn't because no one will be harmed by that action, yet we still feel guilt.

Meanwhile the capitalist feels no guilt in perpetuating the system of wage slavery and poverty that is necessary to maintain his extraction and exploitation. So why do we feel guilty when taking back something already stolen from us?