There is a reason for that. PDFs de facto “standard” is complex and documentation is sparse. PDFs were also designed to be static and uneditable which makes a lot of simple edits more complex to implement than people think.

Which is not really open now is it.

The poor kid

Don’t change that! I need that feature for my workflow

Depends on the author.

Yup it is contrary to normal economic principles, read up on luxury goods and in particular veblen goods and how price finding works there.

In the end humans are not at all times rational. There is no homo economicus. Economics is as much math as it is a social study.

I once moved ~5TB of research data over the internet. It took days and unfortunately it also turned out that the data was junk :/

And with crowd strike we have seen how reliable Antivirus is.

Hmmm but what about all the image memes?

This reminds of the song Amerika from Rammstein.

Being able to host the same community over multiple servers would be great. Or having the same account on multiple servers. And I’m not talking about subscriptions but upvotes, posts, comments. That stuff is afaik not transferrable at the moment.

Right now I lost all my posts and comments when feddit.de went kaputt.

Do I dare ask? Beans?

I am definitely on the hope side of things. Lemmy has extreme potential for growth. Just not explosive fast growth. I believe the strength of Lemmy could be “natural” growth as the threat of the platform going downhill is smaller.

On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog bot.

Yea that can’t hurt. It’s just hard to do IMHO a lot of muscle memory.

Do you think Lemmy is big enough to attract that kind of attention? I would be genuinely surprised if it does.

My theory was that the content just floods over from other sources. Where there are bots / paid people. Anecdotally I’ve not seen the classic bots like you see on Twitter and Reddit here yet.

Wheel

I mean if your goal is to normalize this then this is the way to go.

Did I understand correctly are you saying prostitution should be illegal? If so what do you mean with regulation and workplace safety?

Well you do need to trust the checksum provided. That is the one you are checking against. Better would be a signature from a key you trust.

In the end a modern torrent is just a hash.