I don’t think that’s true. I’m pretty certain they simply hop on a torrent client with an illegal torrent for their movie and record the IP addresses they see seeding and leeching. Then simply compel the responsible ISP to reveal which of their customers currently has that IP leased.

One of my top 50 favorite memes of all time hahahahaha

Mastodon needs a way of automatically populating your feed for new users, like the “All” button does here on Lemmy if your instance has done the work.

I consider myself somewhat technology literate and I got frustrated/bored after trying on my phone to find popular accounts elsewhere to follow on the smaller instance I signed up on. Still stuck with an empty feed, but mostly out of laziness*. New users don’t stand a chance.

There’s a niche type of CPU cooler you can get that uses just thermal mass, e.g. thermal pipes from your CPU spreader to finned metal on your case or directly into your case. They can’t provide as much cooling as liquid but it has zero moving parts.

I tried to get one of these cases/coolers for my home server and just could NOT find reasonably priced options or much availability. It’s kind of absurd, there should be a larger market for them.

I didn’t want to have to worry about dust build up and fans dying myself.

From my limited experience usually it’s because they implode from internal drama. To be human is to be lazy, and most people can’t get past that.

Speaking of dullness why isn’t there a like, comment or retweet counter? Just started trying to check out Mastodon.

They have 2 million active users supposedly, 10 times bigger than Lemmy.

1989 Tianneman square protests

Doesn’t this just mean they’ll make their bot accounts under a more organic/random timeline instead of linearly? The only way it seems you identified it is by the linear nature of the signups.

I’ll never understand why so many people seem to willingly buy houses under an HOA tyranny

An actual ecosystem would keep the tick population down though, but also if you don’t have deer regularly roaming through your front yard you should be fine too

It’ll change if it gets popular, not everything can have an ultra unique name

Pfft, I’m horny on main 24/7 baby

How is this so fucking accurate on how it feels like they actually brainstorm new Pokemon

That’s a good thing, don’t fear it

Should we make a /c/science community and discuss the latest developments?? 😂

There can only be so many people with impressive achievements in a world of 8 billion people that deserves to be recorded in the history books. And then you should think about the millions and millions of people lost to history and prehistory (pre writing) period that have left this world with barely a trace of even the city that they and thousands of their community occupied. So many people completely and totally lost to time.

When I think about it like that, I realize it’s my ego making me feel bad for not “accomplishing” something when there’s so few of us who get to alter the thread of civilization.

I like this comment but in the end this is something most people won’t want, me included, because a decentralized identity would just mean an even better way to track and get yourself doxed for people who want to remain unknown to rulers of city states

From my perspective there was nowhere to go besides disparate discord communities, until I learned Lemmy existed and it got an IV injection of life from spez screwing with reddit

Sorta seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don’t type of situation.

Damn, that’s a terrifying vision of the future. I was on the fence with defederating, but we probably should.

Your comment should be top.

Very insightful, thanks

Does it really spread out the load? Every instance will want to connect to the larger instances and replicate their data, or the larger instances could hug the smaller ones to death if a popular post gets noticed. I am spitballing, but from what I understand more instances means inducing larger and larger loads on everyone.

I suspect/hope most of reddits infra costs mostly come from massive processes they run to consume and correlate user data into sellable data, or the massive moderator tools using full-text search they probably use to hunt down undesirables.

I feel like just serving up text based information shouldn’t be that intensive if done right. But I definitely don’t have the experience to say so for a program handling millions of requests.

If Lemmy gets big enough, google will work on any customized scraping of the fediverse they need to add in, because it’ll be in their best interest. They might already be able to since Lemmy isn’t private for non-logged in users.