One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

One idea to prevent tags being spammed would be to have them be moderated as well. Thoughts?

Yes: it prevents things like death threats mods have been known to receive on the centralised Lemmy precursor.

In my opinion this runs counter to the idea of federation

The rest of the internet runs counter to the idea of federation, yet Lemmy must work with it.

You mean like lmmy.to?

I posted a script to do just that a while ago.

Like lmmy.to?

This isn’t easy to do yourself: thing is, the way you identified yourself as being “you”, an asymmetric cryptographic key pair associated with your account, got deleted when you removed your account.

If your posts and comments don’t contain any personally identifiable information (that is: no-one can tell it was you who made them) I’d just let it be. Otherwise this is going to be difficult.

An entity outside the EU may still fall under the GDPR. Consult a lawyer.

They’ve set a separate display name that’s show instead of the name that also appears in the URL.

The pregnancy test merely provided the case. Looked cool though.

However, these relative links unfortunately don’t work on non-lemmy activitypub sites like mastodon and kbin.

And that’s exactly the reason why I created lmmy.to.

Yeah, it needs some styling. Which is not my thing really. Anyone want to help?

I got error 500 after entering my hostname.

Huh, now it’s doing the same for me too. Yet it worked when I tried it before.

Edit: fixed now. I seem to have accidentally re-introduced a bug somewhere in the process of launching the site.

Yes, because not every link is on Lemmy itself.

I had been thinking about forking lemmy-ui and then tweaking the site to be more Reddit-like, but ran into build problems and a lack of time. But I’m still open to it.

I’ve compiled it and am running it on a CM4 with 8GB of memory. Still took quite a while to compile. I think a Pi3 is a bit too anemic for this.