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- Comment on What was your social media path? 1 day ago:
phpBB-like bulletin boards (first one I became active on was based on something called UBB which I’ve never seen elsewhere) -> wikis -> IRC -> instant messengers (although I’d sporadically used those before IRC already technically) -> reddit -> lemmy
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 3 days ago:
sad John Perry Barlow noises
- Comment on Why am I able to edit communities that don't belong to me? 3 days ago:
On YOUR server you can do whatever you want. You are the admin, so it’s logical that you can perform any action whatsoever on your local copy of everything that has been copied there. (If you couldn’t through the UI, you certainly could through manual changes in the DB.)
Nothing you do because of this will be successfully federated to anywhere other than your server. That would be a major security issue, after all anyone could maliciously set up a server and make random changes affecting everyone.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 4 days ago:
No one should.
Think about how much you’ve paid in taxes in your life. What could possibly be wrong with trying to get some of that money back?
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 1 week ago:
Similar thoughts here: slatestarcodex.com/…/new-atheism-the-godlessness-…
Particularly interesting is this comment:
One really interesting addition to me is that the early internet was a very, VERY free speech place. It loved Gish Gallops of enormous numbers of arguments from all sides and the idea that you would tell anyone, even the most foolish, that they should be banned was verboten.
In fact, early atheists loved creationists posting! It gave them content because these people were so obviously wrong. And creationists the same, because it allowed them to fight back too.
The modern deplatforming support on both sides is another sign that that era is gone.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
Me, absolutely. At breakfast buffets you may have to stop me from eating way too many eggs.
- Comment on Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling 1 week ago:
EA, not FIFA. The games are nowadays not even called FIFA anymore.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 week ago:
The random place in your head is likely a CGP Grey video about animal domestication. 😁
- Comment on Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments? 2 weeks ago:
Yes it does. It is possible to comment on Lemmy posts from Mastodon if the posts were for some reason federated to a Mastodon server.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Don’t look at “all”, just “subscribed”, then subscribe to things you want to see.
- Comment on On increasing antisemitism, how antisemitic is European jews killing arabs? 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
If at all.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 3 weeks ago:
The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be
apparently we are now supposed to think that that is a good thing, huh
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 4 weeks ago:
This is probably supposed to be a link to this: torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-t…
There are a few communities where that link was posted correctly: discuss.tchncs.de/post/53133358
- UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communicationsreclaimthenet.org ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 1 month ago:
If headlines were honest: France seeks to prohibit early teenagers from social interaction with peers unless they are good at doing it offline.
If I hadn’t had the Internet in the years before my 15th birthday, this would in my retrospective opinion have amounted to near torture.
Can we finally get politicians who grew up with the Internet into power? How many more years must people the age of Macron be allowed to make these kinds of decisions? 😟😡
- EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship Call on UK Government to Repeal Online Safety Actwww.eff.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Which RSS are you using? 2 months ago:
This puts any RSS feed into your Mastodon feed.
- Comment on Games you played inside video games. 2 months ago:
In GTA 5, get on a train, get a wanted level, try to keep the wanted level for an entire round-trip around the map, then try to escape the wanted level, all while staying on the train and surviving.
(it’s been a few years since I tried this and don’t remember if those were the exact rules, but they were something like this)
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 months ago:
both lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are working for me right now? Maybe they’ve come back up.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 2 months ago:
Where do you have those numbers from? I’d like to look up my country.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 3 months ago:
I don’t think there’s much difference. Any standard USB gamepad should work equally fine. I find the Xbox layout more comfortable than the PlayStation one, but this may be different for different people.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 3 months ago:
everything is fucking videos now
did you know that the more inappropriate the place you put the word “fucking” in is, the more seriously people will take your comments? :D
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I don’t think I understand the question.
The Internet isn’t supposed to have a “center”, at all. If it ever does, something has gone wrong.
Federation, like what we’re doing here, can make it so that everyone’s personal “center” can be whatever platform they choose to use most of the time. Someone trying to communicate may be using an entirely different one, it will still get federated to whatever you prefer.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 3 months ago:
In Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, the NPC who asks “where are you from” and we get the options “yes” and “no”.
(He has not heard of yes town, nor does he believe we don’t come from anywhere at all.)
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 22 comments