It’s an overall response to your post. If you want to take the risk of allowing unfettered speech then run your own Lemmy server.

Everything has limits. Water is good for you but too much will kill you. Most people don’t want to take the moral and legal risks of running a completely uncensored site.

Bug free is not possible, but there are certainly degrees of bugs. If I pay for software that is supposed to balance my checkbook and it has errors in the math, I would expect those errors to be fixed or my money returned. If one of the buttons is 2px out of alignment, it’s not a big deal. The software should at least functionally do what you paid for it to do, without any additional expense. IMHO.

I can see both sides of this. I don’t usually update an app unless I’m having problems that are fixed in a later update.

Ongoing development of an app can be for various things. For things like bugfixes to existing code, I don’t think we should necessarily pay for that. For brand new features that weren’t promised before and didn’t exist before there could be a case for paying for that.

I don’t need no fancy boxes for PoE.

That sounds right…

I could never be a wizard. Mess up code, get some error messages. Mess up a spell, get turned into a pile of goo, slaughtered by a demon, or transported to a hell dimension.

I’m not a bot at least. Or am I? I can look down and see hands and arms, definitely not a bot.

Unless I am a bot that was programmed to think it’s human.

Hmm. I’ve got a lot of thinking to do.

How did that ever work, I’ve been there many times.

I actually ran a moderately active (like 20,000 hits a day) small business site from a laptop for a couple years. Of course one of the first thing I did was put a “SERVER DO NOT SHUT DOWN” sticker on it, and set the power settings so closing the lid did not shut down or sleep the computer. It was a Dell 7000 series with 16GB IIRC, it did great.