While they can it’s unlikely, not all burning of stuff is an explosion, and not all electricity is made with burning stuff.

If you are charging up your Tesla with a generator, maybe, but where fossil fuels are burned in powerplants it’s incredibly unlikely that it’s an explosion in an internal combustion engine. Generally it’s a big fire that heats water to steam.

i have had this happen on some websites occasionally while using my password manager.

electric cars do not run on explosions

if you scramble a rubiks cube up there is a good chance that it is the first cube to be in that state. there are 43,252,003,247,489,856,000 possible states that a cube(3x3) can be scrambled up in to.

https://www.grubiks.com/solvers/rubiks-cube-3x3x3

Don’t forget that they have an obligation to their shareholders to continually grow profits. While their past is a red flag, being a publicly traded corp means that they will do everything that they can to keep alternatives from taking there market share.

A naive planet. Google embrace, extend, extinguish. For profit companies do not want a free community taking away from their ad revenue and they see that the fediverse is something that could take users away from their platforms.

If you trust meta, I’m sorry but your an idiot.

Lemmy is #1 in my heart

There is absolutely no reason that a community based system should follow users. This is something reddit only did to try and get “influencers” and drive ad revenue. Not having any of that crap is what made reddit great in the first place.

If it’s secure, reliable, and fully traceable then it has the potential to be valuable if people adopt it. Google sheets allows you to write scripts in many popular languages, so you could implement a Blockchain on it, it would be dumb, but you could do it.

If only the FTC would protect the rest of our data as well. It’s truely insane the number of MASSIVE data breaches that didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for the companies that had really terrible security and lost customer data. In this day and age if a company stores data about people they should be held liable for their data breaches, and not just a slap on the wrist, but fined an amount that is large enough to actually make them give a shit as well as being 200% liable for the damage that they cause to people’s lives as well as true preemptive work to try and fix their mistake and make their fuck up right. I’m looking at you Equifax, I never consented to you having any of my data.