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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • If you go far enough you wouldn’t be able tell a far leftist from a far right winger. Because they are the same person. There’s no “classic left” about it.

    There has been genocides in the past from both sides. One indicator that a faction is going unhinged is that they become authoritarian. They start seeing in black and white and loose their humanity. This can be observed in both left and right. The massacres from the left are brought up all the time, so I’ll bring one up by the right to make it balanced. Don’t forget that the US dropped 2 nuclear bombs on civilians.





  • If this is a loss, a loss compared to what? Centralised servers? If Lemmy was a centralised server, this would’ve taken the whole site down. As another commenter mentioned, if the US government decides take Reddit down, the whole service would be lost. But in the Fediverse no single government can stop it.

    Another example is when lemmy.world was attacked. All other instances and the custom clients continued to work. If you say this is a bad look, what’s a good look in your opinion? All of Lemmy going down at the same time? If centralised services deploy techniques to keep their services stable (horizontal scaling, regional mirrors etc.), Fediverse apps can use all of those techniques plus then some.




  • Lemmy has been improved at light speed over the last couple of weeks. When I joined around 3 weeks ago everything felt prototype-like. But now lemmy.world back-end with Voyager front-end feels almost like Apollo quality. At this rate, it definitely will, in another couple of weeks.


  • imho opinion you might be missing out by clicking that checkbox. The honest bots that announce themselves are very useful for example there is a link correction bot when someone posts raw Lemmy URLs. The malicious bots won’t announce themselves as bots and therefore will not be removed from your feed.

    And the honest bots doesn’t degrade human discussions in anyway, if anything they improve it. Again the example is that bot correcting the URL to instance neutral links helps the message a comment er tries to convey.


  • You don’t need to sign up for each instance (server). You only need to sign up for one. When you login to that one and search from it, the results will include things from other instances (servers) as well.

    And if a search result is a community (subreddit), you can subscribe to it as well. They will show up in your feed next time you refresh. If a community says “subscription pending”, just ignore it. You are already subscribed.