No, they’ll do whatever they want and kill people deliberately, frequently, whenever they say something which disagrees with the dictatorship state definition of truth. Give it a decade

Nah. I hadn’t even heard of it till I saw this post, and I’ve been using Lemmy daily for the last 2 years so whatever it is, I don’t think it has a widespread reach. Giving people space to be weird online, whatever that means to them, is a big part of what made Reddit successful - there’s a million subreddits I’ve never heard of it seen. I’m sure many of them would disgust me, but I think it’s still important that they exist. Same goes for lemmy, over moderation/policing does more to harm the community IMO.

I think we need SI metrics for the duration of different dashes when spoken out loud, so we can use the em dash accurately in speech. Quick, someone call a nerd

Counterpoint from my personal opinion: instance doesn’t matter, don’t assume people have certain views based on that, try to avoid stereotyping or being a dick to anyone, spread acceptance and love to everyone and if someone’s a dick to you just block them or ignore and move on. As with Reddit, the strength is in niche communities, and while Lemmy is still obviously way smaller, there are still some great niche communities here if you look for them - just try not to be put off if it turns out to be basically just one person keeping a community alive by posting regularly. Engage! I’ve actually posted and commented way more here than I ever did on Reddit cos it feels like people actually reply and pay attention to stuff here and the mobile apps are great (boost, sync, etc)

It’s a polarised topic but doesn’t need to be, IMO - I still see it as a tool, albeit a powerful one with lots of risks and drawbacks, but the cats out of the bag at this point so we may as well roll with it and make the most of the applications for good. Like with many other massive, rapid technical advancements of the past.

These days, it would probably be more effective to make it easy for instance operators hook up a local multi modal llm to the server to auto generate alt text for all images posted on their instance. I’d happily donate to cover the infrastructure costs for any instance owner who was doing that

I misread as “eat some snakes” and went on a journey thinking this was something about picturing stuff in your mind not being reality 😅

Good

I guess I’m the other half? 😅 (Also met my spouse on OkCupid - both as poly people, too!)

blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 42949672 Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 0, lost sync. page write

https://youtu.be/5LNlBIg4g3I (this track is a fun earworm)

They are a nation who stereotypically love playing chess…

I suspect the person who made the screenshot searched for something including the words “hole in roof” on Google Books - this style of yellow highlighting looks the same as the highlight auto applied for search terms there

A fellow fetlife user I see

Maybe in America, not in Spain

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Love to see Limmy on Lemmy!

If this is loss, so is this:

https://media.piefed.world/posts/KD/e5/KDe5U30uGTbwqA6.jpg

That top photo on the wiki reminds me of hypnotoad from Futurama 👀

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