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You don’t die in Elite. You escape in an escape pod and are recovered by the PFRR. Honestly, it’s a good universe (if you can afford the ship). You have infinite insurance without any reputation repercussions and with an absurdly small copay, can go anywhere you want, and can actually earn money instead of living your entire life doing the same monotonous job. Even smuggling, piracy, assault and attempted murder (Odyssey’s “death” message implies life-endangering injuries) is forgiven by a very short time in jail and a fine. Also tuning your craft is allowed and in part encouraged.

Turing Complete’s main character was abducted by aliens, who threaten to kill them if they don’t prove intelligent by learning how to build a computer.

Unlike Google, Lemmy (and Mastodon etc.) are FLOSS, so if one instance enshittifies, we can move, even to different ones, fediblock that instance, and continue on. This is the problem with Bluesky: You cannot (realistically) self-host all the ATProto infrastructure, or federate with anyone while not using some service from Bluesky.