People make fun of them but they built their own little empire busting their asses consistently and a little luck. It’s admirable, they never sold out and had creative control the whole time.

In every business I’ve worked in, any email longer than a paragraph better have a summary and action items at the end or nobody is going to read it.

In business time is money, email should be short and to the point.

They were against the Beast because they didn’t know they’d agree with his policies.

Wait a second, you mean “gamersplan.com” isn’t a reputable, well-researched paragon of journalistic integrity? I’m shocked.

You’ll need to elaborate if you want to actually contribute.

Anyone is free to spin up an instance, go nuts.

Like what?

This is actually the beauty of the fediverse to me.

Anyone with the know-how (or will to learn) can fork some code and start implementing changes they want from their service. It’s always been one of the biggest draws of *nix for me (and FOSS in general). I love the really granular control of being able to configure pretty much every setting or feature to the users liking.

The ISP usually doesn’t give a shit. It’s various industry groups (think RIAA) seeding and trying to deanonymize people, then they complain to the ISP who’ll usually (IME) brush it off with stern look but I guess in really egregious cases they’ll cut service.

Fuck end users I wish people still had to write dialup scripts to connect to the internet.