Every other documentary about anything*

4? Where else have I heard that number lately

Classic playbook, you’ll see it used everywhere if you look closely.

Need to decrease public support of someone? Push a fake story out that they abuse kids or had child abuse material.

What did you move on to that doesn’t ever have vulnerabilities? We’d love to move on too!

Eight of them (and they’re intermediate certs)

Not just 4, but for eight things they used numbers under 300

Why is matrix expensive?

Is learning a language and enjoyment of your show not worth $1-2 a month? How are these dodgy sites safer to rawdog than Usenet or torrents?

Imagine having a political system where there are only two choices and thinking you live in the land of the free

Are the liberals in the room with us now

Unlikely, impeachment does not mean anything will really happen. Removal requires Senate conviction by two-thirds of senators present. Trump has been impeached twice already

Impeachment doesn’t get rid of them

Yeah sure, I agree there’s no platform the movement as a whole can coordinate on

No off the shelf forum software has ever been proven at that scale. There’s far more at play than just “storage and bandwidth”. At that scale every operation has to be carefully designed. A table or index scan on any remotely common function in this setting would cripple the entire DB server with even one row per user in the table.

With 70m monthly active users, we’re in stack overflow and reddit 2012 territory. Nothing off the shelf, build your system yourself, nothing ready to migrate to at present. Even just the reads become a challenge, you’d need a CDN, load balancing, all the modern bells and whistles.

An off the shelf forum would be fine if it was just a few tens of thousands of users.

The biggest phpbb forum ever, for example, was Gaia online which was a heavily customised and rewritten phpbb that capped out at 90000 concurrently online users and 26 million registered users in total.

These protests are the largest in human history and just comprehending the scale is a struggle for most, normal systems just do not cut it.

What I meant was, unethical or not, the Stanford prison experiment outcome was planned and influenced. There is no good data to be found in it

And probably not bullshit like the Stanford prison experiment

Of course they won’t be using it at the same time. Maybe once a month even. But even then Lemmy+mastodon combined only have one million accounts active per month, we’re talking 70x the fediverse as a conservative estimate

There’s forums and then there’s forums catering to 70 million people

Please inform me which forum software scales to such a load? These are hand wavy suggestions that ignore the reality of the problem

You’re suggesting custom infrastructure, which doesn’t exist today, that they’d have to build out themselves. It’s okay to just say there is no ready or feasible alternative

How is it a ridiculous hypothetical? The proposal made was that these people now need a platform to move to, if they’re not going to use big tech, where do they go? Building a whole new architecture and platform is a bit out of scope. If your answer is that there is no other platform, then just say that.