This is a very good question and I would like to see a tradesman respond.

It‘s a pretty good metaphor I‘d say and less bland than calling them plug and socket.

It is paywalled

It’s actually good in firefox and safari, just don’t use chrome

Cities like Berlin need to drastically decrease available parking and invest tons in public transport and bicycle infrastructure. The status quo feels like living in a 19th century industrial town, it’s disgusting.

Zigbee devices can still be crap if you have the choice between a proprietary app that phones home and maintaining home assistant as a part-time job

I’m so nervous reading this

Listen to me, you will not use that old wiry thing anymore once you have an oxo peeler. They have a rubberized grip that’s actually hand-sized and I’ve been loving potato peeling with it.

Commute is part of working hours (with a reasonable limit)

Why do people hate on self-driving cars?

Not having appropriate tools to detect and mod auto-generated or repetitive content submitted by companies trying to influence public opinion.

Asking for upvotes in the title, e.g. “upvote if you think…”

Sad but true. Still, I think it’s important that this is well known.

Remember that messages are not private and can be read by admins! This is an important flaw of ActivityPub!

IANAL, but he GDPR is quite reasonable and if Lemmy did the right thing © it would not be a problem I think. Transferring data to a jurisdiction, like for example the US, where people do not enjoy the same level of data protection comes with risks for any eu citizen. Therefore, it is important that any new user of Lemmy/ActivityPub is educated on what’s actually going on here and the consequences of posting on Lemmy for their personal data. Article 49, 1a) of the GDPR provides an exemption for the rule this posting is about if

the data subject has explicitly consented to the proposed transfer, after having been informed of the possible risks of such transfers for the data subject due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards

Why can’t we have that? Add a step to the signup process that explains the basics of how a decentralised community works: even if you sign up to a German Lemmy instance, Lemmy is a global community, your data may be transferred to any place in the world and that means that you won’t be able to enjoy the rights and protection you may expect on a German server. Click the “accept the risks” button to continue. Go to this link if you ever change your mind to stop federation of your content and attempt to remove it from any place it has already been federated to.

Even cooler if we can somehow record the jurisdiction of instances and build mechanics that act on that information, e.g. during federation.