Considering how few people block all scripts, this could also make it trivial for them to fingerprint you.

It gives you an early signal that the relationship won’t work out if the other party decides to contribute nothing for no reason other than to have their cake and eat it too.

I’m of the belief that when it comes to relationships, if you’re thinking about it transactionally, then you’re doing things wrong. As long as being together is a net positive for both parties, then it doesn’t matter if one contributes more than the other.

On a more pragmatic note, you can contribute a lot through non-financial means and these are difficult to quantify, so it’s simply not worth the effort to do that kind of bean counting. If you don’t feel that they’re pulling their weight, then you talk about it and make some adjustments.

Oh, yeah, I can see why uniform randomness would be a problem. I thought the criticism was directed at “Just sort people into a Lemmy server either based off their interests or location”

I was thinking that you do a little questionnaire and it gives you the best matching server.

Do you know why? It sounds to me like a great addition to the fediverse.

Shut down as in someone shut down the website or people telling you that the idea is trash?

Pick the one everyone else is using. Your friend has a Hotmail? You make a Hotmail. Everyone switched to Gmail? You’ll also switch to Gmail. Also for a lot of people, email is just email. They don’t even know that you can choose a different provider.

88 indeed

Finally an authoritative source on the conversion rate between $ and tynb!

Being alive probably poses the greatest risk.

I’m pretty sure credit card companies already take care of preventing and reversing fraudulent transactions free of charge.