• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    That sort of locks in the big players, though, right? If you aren’t making Facebook money, how are you going to afford the liability? What happens to a Lemmy or Mastodon instance with a budget of $2500/yr if the operators suddenly become legally liable for what people say on them? What if they are legally liable for what someone in another instance says which then gets federated?

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      9 hours ago

      Yep, this. I think the marks are told “Big Tech” ( which they imagine are being run by liberals) that they are doing something very liberal and must be punished, because something something Hunter’s hard drive, oops, I mean “lap top”.

      I think the reality will be that, yes, all the people running siren servers will consolidate yet even more power and the Internet as a two-way medium is effectively over.