Ah, sorry. Turns out the one I got two years ago isn’t a Compact either. (I had Compacts previously, and didn’t want a big phone then either.)

The 10 V I got is not as big as some of the other big phones, but it is a bit bigger and significantly longer than Compact was previously. 155x68x8.3mm

If communities were standing alone, that idea would work. But communities are hosted and shared on an instance. I find it questionable in that context; it’s a slippery slope.

Should an instance’s users be able to vote on every community they see in their local feed, or should only community members be able to? Instance admins may decide a community does not violates instance rules, while users may feel like it does not fit the spirit or goals or mentality of an instance.

It could work if only community members can vote in their communities. Then you could make community-specific decisions and consequences, and the border of instance and community would be separated by definition.

How would such rules work across federation?

Sure, one instance can make their rules regarding it. But if everything they federate with ignore them, do they have to exclude all federated votes? Would they have to filter all votes according to some technical-representable rules?

I’ve seen it too often on Lemmy too.

Most are of what you describe, but not all of them. I have seen valuable background checks before (back on Reddit). I specifically remember an elaborate post about bots/botnet.

I don’t like your dismissive qualification of “have so little going on in their lives”. Some background checks are good and important. Dismissing people who are willing to invest into that in general, but also dismissing people who “have nothing better to do” for their situation, feels like an awful, uncalled-for, inappropriate insult.

/edit: Rewording to better get my point across.

https://www.socialeurope.eu/wage-productivity-gap-four-tales-from-the-eurozone has some graphs, although I don’t see data sources

Sony has their Xperia Compact series.

• Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact - 129x65x9.3mm
• Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact - 135x65x12.1mm

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Can we even reasonably determine or guess that? We are not in that situation after all.

We can make guesses, but they are fundamentally rooted in our single reality.

For many things, missing one thing would have meant it coming up elsewhere.

Consider how some discoveries were made by different people independently.

Some were not recognized or became public knowledge. You may very well find that what happened was not how convenient they were but that it was pure chance, and could have been more convenient in more instances.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

I just want to point out that buying a domain usually means you own it, despite having to pay a hosting fee. But you can take it to other hosters.

I assume you’re asking about niche leasing without ownership?

Uplifting my mood

I’m pressing it.

Breathing? Just standing there, breathing, without giving an answer? What does breathing mean here?

Adding a “thanks” acknowledges them asking. “Thanks, how about you?” Doesn’t answer the question, but follows the social interaction formula of acknowledgment and throwing it back/mirroring.

Professional army.

Support and train a reserve army of those willing. Citizens that could support the country and other citizens in the case of an invasion. Some countries do that. I like to think of those.

Only if otherwise necessary general service. E.g. active invasion you can’t otherwise oppose, or you can’t establish a minimum reserve.

Pingback introduced back-linking websites practically forming a network in 2002.

URLs are a form of linking content, forming a network. Although uni-directional (into one direction only).

Some platforms integrate into websites and form a form of meta-network of their content or accounts.

Most recently and popular, the AT Protocol is an alternative generic protocol similar to the fediverse, powering Bluesky.

What does having puzzle piece mean? I’m not familiar with the term.

My father told me that Bill Gates designed and distributed COVID. Iirc to reduce world population or sell vaccines or whatever.

From that time onwards, I felt I could not guess whatsoever anymore what he’d believe to be true. All the belief in energy and human influence through thought alone and even across distance solidified that feeling.

It’s a loose loose situation.

“What happens when you die” - I assume you mean after you die (not during), and to your consciousness, your awareness rather than your body.

The same as before you came to be. Not like you fell asleep; you’re gone.