The difference is that when you buy a vps you aren’t handing over all your access creds to random developers.

And “harming lemmy” may be an intent that sparks a DDoS but there are other intentions that should make users wary. Harvesting creds of people who reuse passwords across accounts is an easy example that could have more serious implications to the individual user.

Lol some clueless zoomer made this

This pyramid is mostly bad argumentative techniques, i.e. arguing in bad faith.

It does very little to explain the structure of good faith arguments, lumping them in together at the top…

Sounds like you’re kind of grieving in advance, which is natural and healthy so long as you channel it into something constructive like you are.

Everyone’s parents will leave, yours is the best case scenario.

Which of the following would you most prefer? A: a puppy, B: a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C: a large properly formatted data file?

As a corporate entity Reddit had much more liability to worry about and more to lose.

Part of the appeal of the fediverse is that any of us anywhere can run an instance with different stakes, applicable laws, etc.

Without having to worry about profit, conversations can flourish.