It’s short for Leomard.

Depends what you consider edible. Some varieties of psilocybe grow directly on poop.

House centipedes are the better than spiders at killing bugs. Sure, they’re creepy looking, but they hunt the bugs that are actually problematic.

Paper? You mean hard copy website?

I think the main issue of your comment was that you may be mistaking what redundant means.

Geckos are lizards.

They care about visible, or tangible privacy. It’s hard for some to grasp internet privacy and why it matters if “you’re not doing anything wrong.”

But barge into their house at 4am, or open the door while they’re in the bathroom, or listen at the door while they’re having sex, and you’ll get a whole different response.

Ask them about their finances and most people won’t talk about it, but they don’t realize that facebook and google know all about it.

Ahh, so if I’m on Site A, I can view and comment on things from Site B, so long as A and B are federated with one another.

There’s a bit more to it, but essentially yes. For example, beehaw.org has defederated from lemmy.world, but we can still view their content. We can interact with their content and reply to their posts, and other instances that they are federated with can see what we do there, but beehaw users can’t see any of it. Basically federation is a one-way street. You can federate with an instance, but they don’t have to federate back.

Apart from “don’t affiliate with The Zuckerbot”, I’m still not sure what the worry is all about.

That’s kind of the motto of the fediverse in general. It’s supposed to be de-centralized and de-corporatized. There are no built-in features for advertising, for example. It’s meant to be a place that is safe from the things that we’re afraid Facebook is trying to do. Overall, it mostly is. They can attract people out of the fediverse and into their garden which they plan to wall off, but they can’t quite shut down the independant instances.

ActivityPub is the protocol that Lemmy/kbin/Mastodon use, and is the basis behind the fediverse. It’s also the same protocol that Threads uses. They’re all different site/services, but they can all interact with each other through the ActivityPub protocol, assuming they are federated to each other.

At the moment, Threads is entirely separate, as they haven’t federated with anyone, but eventually they will want to join the fediverse, and the question is whether or not to federate with them. They will always be able to view our content as it’s public, but if we federate with them we will see their content and they will be able to post content here. Keep in mind that Lemmy currently has about 70k active users, and that Threads just got 30 million+ sign-ups. We don’t know how many of those are active users, but it’s certainly more than all of Lemmy put together. If they come here, that’s going to be basically impossible to moderate.

As of now, there’s no built-in means to block entire instances as a user. The only way to keep them out are to use an instance that is 2 levels separated from them, that is an instance that doesn’t federate with another instance that federates with them.

The pyramids are way out in the desert. Cairo is also way out in the desert. Egypt is basically a desert with a river running through it.

If you set your default sorting method in your settings, it applies it to all pages by default. So your subscribed will also be sorted that way when you might prefer that be sorted by new or active. Then you need to manually choose to sort it differently each time you change between subscribed/local/all.

What’s missing from this description is that the main rule of that sub/community is that you can’t leave without posting something, hence all the “rule” memes.

It’s basically an archive of the last state of RARBG before it was taken down, it’s not getting updated.