It always makes me chuckle a bit how internet censorship (at least in western countries and on a personal level (school and work networks excluded)) is almost always just done through DNS. I mean I’m sure not going to be the one to tell them how laughably ineffective that is, but it’s just funny.

Np. I mainly reuploaded it since discord introduced that thing where attachment links expire after a few days and stop working

Embedded (and non Discord) link:

I’m always worried about inadvertently doing this, so I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to ask people if they need more context rather than assuming they do or don’t. It’s actually a good approach I think. Although it does depend on whether the person you’re talking to is likely to just say “oh yeah, I know what that is” when they really don’t

Solutions always seem to come to me in that weird phase of thought between almost asleep and actually asleep

You forgot the snark!

Closed as duplicate. Learn how searching works you stupid, foolish clodpoll.

Sounds about right to me

It is indeed. I’ve got no clue what it’s like here, but I know in the old community on the red alien site, just about everything on uplifting news was something like “7 Year old boy sells 75,000 glasses of lemonade to pay for sick mums cancer treatment”. Something that seems uplifting for the first 3 seconds then just becomes extremely depressing the more you think about it.

The news article was posted in ABoringDystopia and someone made a joke about how it should be cross posted to here, and I guess OP took it seriously

No worries! Here’s an example of a post by a mastodon user on a Lemmy community (another telltale sign is that virtually no lemmings use hashtags):

https://aussie.zone/post/7464977

And one of those deep mention comment threads (though I’ve seen deeper):

https://aussie.zone/comment/4629969

Interesting, I use boost and didn’t know about that. Like client side flairs, neat!

I’ve never seen that before. I wonder if it’s an instance dependent setting?

Yeah, my last post on Reddit was actually to my profile redirecting people here. Don’t think we have that here yet, although it could be useful.

I never really saw it used for anything useful though, it was primarily used for spam in my experience. But it would probably improve compatibility between us and mastodonians

With instance I know, you don’t give a commercial licence to re-use your content like you do on reddit. For example, Lemmy.world team cannot sell your comments to train an AI

It’s worth noting that although nobody has a licence to steal your content, this is the internet, and the nature of the fediverse makes it easy to siphon if somebody really wanted to.

Sure, that’s a violation of your copyright and completely disrespectful to you as a person, but do you or your instance have the resources to take action against whatever multi-billion dollar company decided to copy everything you’ve ever done?

Ironically, the only jeans posts I saw were people complaining about the jeans posts. I don’t know whether I’ve just blocked all the communities or people that were posting them or what, but it was the same story with the beans thing

You can view who votes for things? I think that’s a kbin thing, isn’t it?

There’s also Mastodon, a Twitter-like service that currently Kbin users can interact with (but not Lemmy).

They can interact with us though, and then we can interact back. We can’t really “post” there, but if a mastodonian makes a post in a Lemmy community, us lemmings can see it, and then we can reply to them. But we can’t do twitter style posts on their forum

The biggest telltale sign you’re talking to a mastodonian rather than a lemming is that you’ll see them @ everybody in the entire thread in every single reply, since that’s how replies start on twitter and mastodon. I’ve never actually received a notification for the @'s, I think it’s functionally closer to just linking to your user profile than an actual mention, but once you get deep in a thread you’ll see every comment starting with 60 different @'s.

Ooh yep absolutely this. You can block users, but also communities and even entire instances, it’s amazing.

Now I just need communities and people to block 😂

Oh. It’s you.

It can be. Once you get to hyper specific niches, you’ll start seeing communities where it’s more or less only a single person posting, if anyone’s around at all. In more general communities it depends what’s going on. There’s a few people in the memes and shit posting communities who I swear make just about every post that ends up high up on top/day, and are in half the comment sections too. In communities like ask Lemmy it’s usually different people posting, but the same few people replying

It’s kinda cool to go to pretty much any post and go “hey! I know almost everyone in the comment section!”, but that’s a bit of a double edged sword