Possibly a sensitive topic. Don’t mean to spark a political debate. Personally, I like what schools like Stanford have done to allow qualified people who can’t afford tuition to attend. I miss the days where tuition assistance was a fairly common part of benefits packages.

Oh, I get that theory, though I’m not sure I completely agree. Either way, unless I completely misunderstand how ActivityPub works, their instance can effectively be isolated to its own little sandbox depending on how many other instances decide to share with them. Further, if you’re on an instance that decides to share w/ Meta’s, you can skip over to another one that doesn’t. So Meta can be isolated by instance owners and/or users.

Let them! There’s nothing saying other instances have to federate with them. Kind of the beauty of the whole thing, really.

I think helpful bots, like this one, are generally a good thing. However I also think there should be a way for a community, either an instance as a whole or a community/magazine, can register their dislike of particular bots and/or have a setting to block them. Right now, I really want to block the lemmit bot. I don’t need or want my feed gummed up w/ Reddit reposts.

Interestingly, I’ve been trying to push my HPC customers towards SLES and Ubuntu LTS. SLES has better extended support for minor releases (that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg), and Ubuntu’s LTS… for obvious reasons.

Fair point. I’m keeping an eye on it right now. If it gets out of hand, I’ll do that. Everyone seems to be behaving so far, though. Fingers crossed.