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.

One of my favorite youtube videos

This is pure nostalgia for DS kids

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?

This motherfucker constantly talks about how it’s immigrant parents responsibility to make sure that their kids doesn’t do illegal stuff if they want to stay in Sweden. The absolute hypocrisy of saying that when you have a nazi son who is training to fight, i.e. at the very least preparing to exercise illegal violence.

Dark design patterns

Please provide further reading to prove your point

He doesn’t consider game bundles like e.g. humble bundle. There you can get loads of steam games which you might activate but only play a few from.

At least e.g. steam can’t arbitrarily choose to brick your colputer

Vänstermedia i den konspiratoriska bemärkelsen har aldrig varit en grej så vitt jag vet. Vad finns det för belägg för det? Förutom svag bevisföring som t.ex. personliga anekdoter.

Var klart från första början att det inte var sabotage. Vad är det för fel på vårt samhälle där fredliga demonstranter misstänks för ett sådant allvarligt brott?

That fucking sucks. I’m sorry

Don’t have incentive to check if this is an realistic example since I live in Europe but that sounds bad. In e.g. Sweden, health care costs caps at ~$100 a year. America is supposedly richer than Sweden, should be no problem fixing this in that case

The website which wants to sell your data to hundreds of “partners” pretends to be concerned about your privacy.

Insurance would most likely decrease the probability of going bankrupt?

As a texan would say: it’s god’s will

So you’re saying that americans have a magical property that makes them confront pickpocketers unlike everyone else who simply allows it to happen because they apparently don’t care about keeping their expensive stuff? Believable

Reddit be like: YOU’RE ENCOURAGING POLITICAL VIOLENCE!!!

Would like to see some evidence supporting that beggars get an average close to $40 an hour. Searched for papers about the topic and haven’t found anything being remotely close to what you suggest.