There’s also that things have shrunk enough and that takes more precision and specialized tools to repair. And there’s also that some people, myself included, have absolutely no business messing around with capacitors and the like. It is just not everyone’s skillset, and that’s okay, we live with other people who cover what our personal skills don’t, and it comes with very lethal consequences if messed up. Which is also another reason that companies don’t like people tinkering with the insides of things; electricity does not care who you are and if not respected it can and will kill you, start a fire, etc. It’s one of the reasons companies don’t like people messing with the insides of electronics; bad PR and lawsuits if someone gets hurt.

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I keep thinking that subscribing to communities in mastodon would ideally have the top level posts “reposted” by the community account and the comments on the posts in the replies to the posts. Does it work that way now or no?

I feel like an additional major danger here is putting them in conditions where disease can spread rapidly, then pointing to them being hurt by an outbreak and using the very situation they put them in as evidence that “immigrants are diseased” or the like, to fuel further persecution of immigrants both inside and out of the camp.

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Making internal lists and data and eliminating public facing data aren’t incompatible. In fact, they’re horrifyingly compatible.

And on the other hand, when you shout objection and the normal music keeps playing…

The problem with individual user blocks is that if someone submits enough of the links in a community, blocking them means blocking most stories and discussions so you can’t really read or participate in the community without leaving them unblocked.