If a few servers are linked up and talk to each other using TCP/IP (?) but aren’t connected to the wider network, that’s not enough for it to be considered another internet (but it could be an intranet).

If a few instances are linked up and talk to each other using ActivityPub but aren’t connected to the wider network, I think that’s not enough for it to be considered another fediverse.

Well I linked to an article from the Australian national broadcaster, so that tracks :P

They’re still called athletes I guess? but for some reason we* nonetheless never (?) use “athletics” to mean “all sports”. I’d never really thought about how it’s a bit strange until this thread!

* at least here - can’t speak definitively for everybody

It’s referring to athletics - Wikipedia suggests that in North America it’s usually called “track and field”?

No worries, easy mistake to make just based on naming. Hope you find an answer!

5. This is not a support community.

It is not a place for ‘how do I?’, type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

The !support@lemmy.world suggestion isn’t that helpful here because that’s intended for .world only, but you could try !techsupport@lemmy.world, !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml (if you’re federated), or maybe the lemmy GitHub?

Maybe the person playing The Sims on their PC let their younger sibling play and now the simulation is getting fucked up sideways?

RIGHT THERE OFFICER, THAT’S THE ONE

Greed or dishonesty are other abstract ones to consider. Worried that removing dishonesty could cause some harms, but I guess anything in the thread probably could.

Real life incremental game!

The process described and shown by the screenshots does seem a bit much for a cancellation. Suing feels disproportionate when I first hear it, but are there many other recourses to force it to become more user friendly?

She apparently did make at least one appearance during the sixth six months for whatever that’s worth (sourced from her Wikipedia page)

The sum of all human knowledge isn’t Wikipedia, it’s the combination of two books:

• What They Teach You at Harvard Business School
• What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School

The decentralization is good if you can get the numbers high enough for the individual communities to be useful, but having them concentrated creates a mini network effect, where each user is automatically exposed to all of the local communities, which would be harder to seek out and find individually. So I think there’s tradeoffs, and mostly-centralized and mostly-decentralized community-instance pairing both have pros and cons.

Afaik lemmyverse gets the descriptions from the instances themselves? Publishing any “curated” description and having everyone agree on it would be… challenging for some instances.

Instance does affect moderation policy though. For example, someone who likes the vibe of specific “controversial” instances like hexbear would likely find many instances to be dissatisfactory because many instances are defederated with it. Someone may also have strong preferences about “free speech vs safe space” kind of moderation.

General-purpose medium-sized instance is probably “good enough” (especially if picking your first instance, with a willingness to migrate later if needed), but someone will feel more at home if their preferences more closely align with the instance they’re on. For example, beehaw users generally seem to love being on there from what I’ve seen, and I think they would feel less at home on most other instances.

There’s also value in making use of an instance’s local feed in some cases (less so for most general-purpose instances though!). I participate in aussie.zone regularly, and at times it’s a pain to use from a remote instance. For example, if I want to submit a new post, I have to manually check several loosely-related communities to make sure it hasn’t already been posted to the instance (cross-posting intra-instance is not ideal imo). If I were a local instance user, I could just check the local feed, which most of the time I just end up doing anyway because it’s faster than checking several communities manually. It would definitely be easier for me in that regard if I just migrated there or had started there to begin with.

For those that didn’t read the 9-sentence (plus title/captions) article, the biggest issue is damage risk from adhesives rather than anti-fun:

The council also said that in the past other decorations like Santa hats and wreaths have been added but that this was different.

“While we don’t condone the wreaths… and Santa hats, let’s stay away from adhesives, graffiti and all things that can damage the art” it said on it’s social post.

The council leader has explained that while they want the community to engage with the art and have fun, they also don’t want things to be damaged.

So stick the googly eyes onto a headband or something first I guess?

…would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

The problem is that the opposite of the headline would be the surprising one. If it was “Trump refuses to give Elon Musk’s buddy total control over NASA, citing <X/Y/Z valid reasons>”, that would be the current Onion-level headline.

I regret to inform you that a billionaire stole your arm to help pay for their next mansion / yacht / social media site.

Yes: https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9