I think you're missing that the US federal government already owns a lot of land, so they don't really need to seize any land if they want to do that.
Odd because why would such people switch to a new platform?
The answer to "can X be sued for Y?" is always yes, you can sue anyone for anything, this doesn't say anything about whether you'll succeed.
Thanks, added to OP. First time posting to this sub and didn't notice that others were posting the alt text to their OPs.
Yeah this was my first thought too. What conspiracy theories about the eclipse?
Platforms actually have one significant advantage over personal websites, blogs, disconnected forums: You only have to go to one website (open one app) in order to read everything you find interesting. You don't have to remember to go to 5 different forums and read 15 different blogs.
Of course the disadvantage is that they are a lot easier to censor because they're a single point of failure.
ActivityPub should in theory be the best of both worlds, but I am not too optimistic; people, organizations, governments wanting to censor people they don't like will always find a way. :(
No, mainly because even when I try to manipulate people, I usually don't succeed.
This is why I also mentioned "regulated", not just "censored".
In my teen years I was convinced that the government shouldn't have any business telling us what to do on the Internet and thought that that is what the future would be like, that we were then living in a temporary situation where governments were still trying to do so but eventually the Internet would win.
That turned out different. I really wish I knew how to help achieve a utopia of free worldwide communication.
In German, the formal address is the same as the third-person plural, just capitalized. This can lead to ambiguities when talking.
Something something copying is not theft
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The "threadiverse" (i.e. lemmy-compatible communities), yeah. There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here; to the extent that there are communities for them, they get very little activity.
The microblogging fediverse (mastodon-compatible), I think, is popular enough by now, I have no real desire to see even more activity there, can hardly keep up with what I'm currently following there and currently tend to unfollow more accounts than I start following.