Can I cuss the software for being terrible and then git blame in silence right after?

They do host them on their servers, sort of (if you’re asking how ad brokers work that’s a bit of a different scope).

Does poo have to be on your desk to smell it?
The post office (website) is telling you (your computer) to go over and pick up a parcel of poo (an ad) that’s there for you.
You say no, I don’t think I will (adblock/poo block)

Handy dandy diagram for any execs that are confused

So, if I’m understanding your intent correctly/distilling it out a bit: you want a feature that lets you seed a new public torrent from a private torrent (using the same local files) in one click?

I’m not too familiar with the plugin APIs of a lot of torrent clients but this sounds like something a plugin could handle.

They keep mentioning a 20mph marking but the road in the pic is very clearly a 21mph road

Tag yourselves I’m the other muffin

Economies of scale and subsidies/successful lobbying.

Sort of. There’s one coming up in 2038 where the number overflows a signed 32 bit integer. Anything using 32 bits for timestamps is going to get a wee bit confused.

This should be the last time that happens though as a 64 bit signed int can carry us to something like the year 290 billion

Australia has something kind of like this. Essentially the number of votes a party gets influences how many seats they get to fill. These party members then vote on stuff with even weighting but obvs the more votes you have aligned to your faction the better.

Interesting, I’ve only ever used the ovpn files and they recently broke the same way you describe. Redownloaded them and it started working again with the same credentials.

I’m guessing they broke something servers idea and the client had a hard time refreshing its config

The Problem you describe applies to reddit also, however the solution on lemmy is in your question.

If a community gets scuttled on reddit, where are you going to go? How do you make the transition smooth enough that you’ll retain most of the community. You’re pretty up shit creek in this scenario.

On lemmy if the main community is scuttled, there are already 5 new communities set up, with the same UX/app/login creds. The members can transition easily and carry on being wonderfully niche.

Yes technically the owners of the instance “have all the control”, but it’s in the same way that a friend lending you their car “has all the control”. If they’re a dick or need it back you can just ask someone else. As opposed to reddit which is more like welfare, if the government decides to kick you off, you’re shit out of luck