You can hide an intermittent mesh networking device in anything with a solar panel, it’s not that easy to triangulate users if the communications are intermittent (although that itself doesn’t play nicely with consumer devices.

Satellite internet is not a good option, it’s easy to block and easy to spot people using it.

Maintaining links to the global Internet is easier to do if you’re hiding your transmission inside other things, but that’s easier said than done.

That’s not ironic, people didn’t confuse Reddit for Digg, it wasn’t a even Digg clone nor did it pretend to be one.

I don’t think you can get sued for using a trademark as long as your use doesn’t confuse people into thinking you are the original.

I guess the idea just didn’t have legs!

Hey I’m a human, but have you considered letting the Lord our Savior Tux into your boot partition?

Yeah the article is pretty trash.

15% of the top subs contain corporate propaganda becomes “15% of the subs are compromised”, “compromised” means something more than “contains propaganda” to me.

Wasn’t Digg 2.0 what “created” Reddit (or at least gave it critical mass) (along with the child porn obviously)

Lemmy has VC funding?

I actually think the lack of funding means Lemmy doesnt have the same incentives to enshitify itself.