Saying 4channers suck is very similar to saying Lemmy users suck. Depends on board and instance respectively.

The payment companies which gave way were American.

Truly impressive how little america cares about its citizens.

You do realize that it’s harder to move to renewables if the energy required keeps increasing? Higher bandwidth usage requires expansion of internet infrastructure to account for peak usage which increases the amount of energy used, not only for the manufactured hardware (which will likely turn to e-waste at some point) but also to keep the infrastructure running. I highly recommend reading research about the sustainability of the internet.

Youtube and tiktok are video platforms (instagram turned into one some years after creation). Telling them to stop having videos is equivalent to saying they should cease to exist. Spotify is a music streaming platform. Telling them to stop having videos has a minimal impact on their business model, which is evident by the fact that Spotify was widely successful before they started including videos.

This isn’t [email protected].

I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but hosting internet services is not free at all. I could fully understand why you’d basically force people to pay at least something instead of hoping that people choose to donate.

Lemmy is supposed to be a FOSS platform.

FOSS is free and open source SOFTWARE, i.e. the software is the free part. You’re free to host your own Lemmy instance if you’re displeased.

In Sweden, it’s illegal for bicyclists to not have lights and reflectors (both front and back) and the law is at least enforced to some degree by police.

Come the fuck on. You can’t be this sarcastic while being an idiot at the same time. If a city is clogged up by cars, it doesn’t help that people are irresponsibly parking these e-scooters (specifically the ones you hire for a short period through an app which are prominent in e.g. Sweden). Why let a private company carelessly put a bunch of shit on the limited space available for people?