That’s literally a picture of Moraine Lake, same as the title of this post.

It’s short for Leomard.

Could be both, but more likely just the labeling issue. They probably just don’t have the amount of caffeine listed on them. It’s probably not intentionally misrepresenting the amount of caffeine. More likely, they just weren’t aware of the local laws when they decided to sell their products here. After all, they’re all listed as not having bilingual packaging.

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.

There would be interesting communities for sure, but your All feed would quickly turn into a Threads feed.

We’ve never had it this bad before. I know other places have had really bad fires, especially over the past couple years, but this is new for Quebec.

Climate change letting us know we fucked up.