And we already have physical connections, even in rural America.

Can you tell me more about this? Is it true that government grants and subsidies were given out to specifically expand fiber to rural America?

You’re probably right.

I’m trying to look up a user on my instance from another insance with theirinstance.com/u/[email protected] and it’s not working.

I’m not sure what could be causing this, it could be something simple like the previous issue I had earlier with the domain name. I’m going to go through my settings and try to figure this one out, but I’m still kind of new to all of this so it may take some time.

Who’s going to pay for it?

Thanks yet again.

I tried claiming my instance, but now I’m getting the error: API Key PM failed

Slowly and steadily, this problem will be solved!

Thank you. I think I figured it out.

In my lemmy.hjson file, I accidentally put the internal IP address of my server instead of the domain name. This was a carry-over from testing on my main machine by using an IP address and port forwarding because I didn’t have a domain name to use.

I changed the hostname setting in lemmy.hjson to my domain name, and now it seems to be working. Sort of.

Now I have a different error, “Your instance is not guaranteed in Fediseer. Please check fediseer.com”, but this one seems less of a technical issue. I will have to learn what this is about and hopefully I can get it to work :)

Ok.

What about everyone else?

Censorship and surveillance need to die.

Thanks, this looks interesting.

I tried adding my instance under “Manage Instances” but got this error: Request timed out: GET https://{INTERNAL_IP}/nodeinfo/2.1

I’m not sure what this means. Could anyone help provide an explanation?

Nah. My instance was having issues for some reason.

We already have physical lines.

Businesses and governments aren’t going to invest in digging and laying down more cables to give people in rural America access to fiber. They’re already reluctant to do it for major cities.

Remember how Elon Musk conned Vegas out of millions with the hyperloop.

Satellite internet is not the future; it’s cell internet.

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Does he have to work with the wealthy to raise their taxes?

What about putting caps on rent?

Seems like he could do both of these without any backing from wealthy people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect

The ratchet effect is a concept in sociology and economics illustrating the difficulty with reversing a course of action once a specific thing has occurred, analogous with the mechanical ratchet that allows movement in one direction and seizes or tightens in the opposite.

Republicans push us in one direction, weak/complacent democrats don’t fight back.

It’s part of the two-pronged strategy, and why anyone who supports establishment democrats is tacitly supporting republican policies.

We really needed Bernie in 2016, but it shows where liberals’ priorities lie. They become conservative as soon as their wealth is threatened.

There’s another side to this.

This means there’s a lot of programmers who are available to work on other things. It’s an opportunity for businesses to start and new programs to be made.

Good.

Censorship needs to end.

The wealthy people will just pay to have the ads removed.

As always, this law doesn’t exist to benefit workers like you and me. It exists to benefit our rulers and should be another example of how government representatives do not represent their populace.

I’m already getting into self-hosting.

It’s surprisingly easy, and can be done with a VPN that has port forwarding.

Wouldn’t be surprised with how shittifed the web is becoming that we end up with alternatives to DNS since it requires forwarding on port 80.