This is awesome! I didn’t know this was a thing.

Literally my outfit.

I don’t like white shirts, but this one glows in the dark! Do you have any idea how hard it was to find one made of actual glow in the dark fabric and not painted with glow in the dark paint?

Perhaps they decided those bugs met their bug quota.

When localities pass ordinances to restrict more peaceful protests, they run the risk of pressurizing into even more violent and illegal protest situations.

I try to explain this to my dad. Protest means that people are unhappy and feel like their voices aren’t being heard. People need to be motivated to do it. It’s an effect, not a cause.

The soda ones are the best.

I’m trying to improve my diet but oh man I love those.

I can hear this picture.

Alternatively: when you’ve already played this game before so you have the N items you need and now have to spend your time tapping through the dialogues to give them the next item.

The NPC has no comment on how you have all these items in your possession in advance.

Oh my god the can of beans? Seriously?!

Wow, over 4K. This might be the most upvoted post yet.

I never thought of that. I’m not so sure how the net would take it. I don’t know the code closely enough to answer that question. I’ll edit my answer to reflect that.

Absolutely. It should be trivially easy for the owner to get a new name and point it at the server if it still exists and is working. However, I understand that we know very few facts about the situation.

Don’t let that discourage you from having accounts on other instances. One shouldn’t get too tied to a specific one IMHO.

EDIT: Should be. Not sure what happens with usernames.

To my knowledge no there is no such feature at this time, but the ability to filter communities has been requested a lot over the past couple days.

Lemmy is not a business, so it’s only a matter of whether and when the developers feel like it’s a priority. I believe their priority recently has been making sure the platform doesn’t implode due to either security issues or the extreme load placed on a few servers.

In terms of engine efficiency, I believe having an engine that’s warmed up improves efficiency somewhat, but if it’s hot enough that you turn on your AC, your mileage is going to go down. I definitely notice a difference.

Step 1) be bigger than Meta.

Many businesses haven’t updated their technology since the '90s so we really appreciate it.

Can’t stop me from beeping as an organic.

No wage! Only spend!

Don’t forget stream ripping. I used to rip internet radio direct to MP3 with no quality loss and then go back and manually edit the files for playback gaps, keeping the best in case of duplicate recordings. If you have really niche interests it sometimes was literally the only way to get copies of some tracks, especially rare remixes.

You just make a new account with another instance. You get about the same content as before.

Reminder for pet owners to consider pet insurance. With a good vendor, it’s not as expensive as you’d think and can provide peace of mind.

Not naming any recommendations here to avoid the perception of advertising.

Now is a good time to remind users that you are placing some trust in the instance that you use. Lemmy is not anonymous. It is pseudo-anonymous. Your instance can do pretty much anything with your account up to and including turning your account into a sock puppet, and they know exactly where you’re connecting from.

With that said, it’s a lot better than most social media today that actively tries to violate your privacy at every turn.

Is there a business angle to this? Perhaps it’s more about continuing to actively establish an online presence which benefits them directly as musicians than supporting the platform.

I’m not writing that I agree with it, but I can at least understand it if it’s more of a business move. You don’t want to be late to the party if, for example, you’re in the business of parties.

Oops, wrong post.

The first time I rejected the package maintainer’s version of a configuration file I felt mad with power.

Question: if I don’t have any other themes listed on my instance can I use a theme or does the instance owner have to apply it?

Like people wouldn’t force them to mate with seals if it would produce something cute for the Internet.

Stolen from a comedy sketch I saw in Orlando.

I came here looking for this comment.

That’s… a good argument. I never thought of it like that.

Thank you for explaining a real instance of this happening much better than I could.

then it’s going to be the Reddit API drama all-over

Exactly. I think this is what people are nervous about. I don’t trust Meta.

ActivityPub is open, but Meta’s client is not open IIRC. It can implement proprietary features that only work with other Meta clients and so they become the de facto standard, or subtly and intentionally introduce errors into the implementation of the standard to force practical usage to depend on the proprietary implementation of an open standard (say if they released an SDK), or you miss out on most of the users and content.

Microsoft has been accused of using this strategy, but I’m not an expert at describing it. Bottom line: the GPL protects how code is used for a specific project–it doesn’t protect an open standard from having proprietary implementations.

In theory, however there’s a saying: embrace, extend, extinguish.

Just because the standard is open doesn’t mean you can’t use it to strong-arm everyone else out of the market, and Meta is definitely big enough to do that.

Yes, but there are shortcomings. It spreads out the load in the sense that for every user served by a small instance, that is bandwidth that a big server didn’t need to spend for those additional users. It only needs to pass a data item to the small instance once instead of to each user as the clients interact with it, saving it resources compared to having to serve each user directly. I believe only actually subscribed communities are fully replicated, but I’m reaching my limits of understanding.

As for the hug of death of small instances that just posted something popular in their own local community, you got me there. Hope that server can handle the load. So far it hasn’t been a problem AFAIK but it could become one.

Looking over at my subscriptions: Nope. Not anymore.

Even this phone license agreement says I don’t really own most everything in it.

Defederation is a heavy hammer for what I view as a UI problem. I just don’t want to see a whole swath of communities but still like the instance that federates with them.

I think this is a missing feature that is needed.

I think users should be able to filter entire instances. There is at least one that comes to mind that I know for sure doesn’t host content that I want to see, but I rather not be forced to hunt for that perfect list of federated instances or run my own server nor should I have to block each community one by one.

It should be really easy to implement, too. Thus, I consider it a missing feature.

This doesn’t fully address your concern, but I thought I might be able to illuminate. Lemmy is not running on a server per se. Every instance is a server that communicates with other servers and this network taken together is called Lemmy. This means that as communities grow the load spreads out across these machines laterally as long as people don’t bunch up too heavily on a popular instance, like Lemmy.world. I made the secondary account on a smaller instance and my performance improved drastically. If you examine my username you’ll see I’m coming from a different instance than you are.

It’s good for the network and for you to register an account outside of the big instances. The concern that isn’t as clear to me right now is what happens if the major communities are all actually hosted on one huge instance. Does that instance just have to bear the load? I do not know exactly how spread out the network ends up being due to people wanting to participate in the biggest communities.

I’m not sure anybody knows right now because it depends on how humans behave.

EDIT: I see that the account you’re posting from is from the largest instance in Lemmy. You can help spread out the load if you choose to use an account on a different instance. This won’t compromise your ability to see the same content. It should also improve your experience with using it because your smaller instance is usually less overwhelmed and can give you more reliable responses.

I like how in your point of view it appears (please correct me if I’m putting words in your mouth or misrepresenting your position) that the platform getting better would be nice but it’s actually not that relevant compared to the fact that other platforms are getting worse and will likely continue to do so as they prioritize shareholders over users.

It’s like a reverse marathon where you win by not running backwards as fast as everyone else. A leisurely stroll forwards is like moving at super speed.