The servers run on regular operating systems. They might wish to back up the storage (and databases), update the OS, or update their game server software, all of which is a lot easier if the service is stopped.

I’d be glad to use Debian… how is it a huge vulnerability?

Lemmy has enough to keep me entertained, and I did successfully finally break my years-long habit of going to reddit. However there are still some subs I look at occasionally since they can provide valuable information, like city-specific and subs about certain video games.

You sign up and use Lemmy from a certain server, known as an instance, which means a server running Lemmy. Each Lemmy server has its own content, which means what people on that server do, but also it shows stuff from “federated” servers, which means other Lemmies.

By default every Lemmy shows stuff from every other Lemmy. But each Lemmy can choose to “defederate” specific other servers, which means to not communicate with them and therefore not show posts, comments, replies, up/down votes or communities from that defederated server.

So, defederation means to blacklist a server. It only affects people who have accounts on the server that chose to defederate.

People can and do undergo change and become enlightened. Certain people, however, are not willing and do not engage in any sort of good faith exchange of ideas, and I agree - it’s useless. I’m not here to provide angry psychopaths or government shills with therapy.

I had heard the term before, but I never figured out wtf a “tankie” was supposed to be until about a month ago when I joined Lemmy. It seems to be part of the Europification of US politics, which is interesting but perhaps not a positive trend.

People very often decide and insist that someone is a “repost bot!” with absolutely no evidence, as if someone couldn’t do that manually. Repost? Sure. Automated? Not necessarily.

I recall that 5-6 years ago on reddit, veering into a disapproved sub and saying anything at all, such as “Wow, I really disagree with this”, could result in automatic bans from other subs for participating in the disapproved sub. Also, the widely disapproved sub would quickly permaban you with a hateful message containing various insults.

I have received a death threat for having opinions about medical conditions, so… it’s just sort of how it works talking to the public on the internet. People who work in retail may now and then receive death threats for serving coffee.

Yeah! (spirit noises)

It is, in fact, a word:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plaud

It’s not that “trans people hurt him”, it’s that he got dumped for being a dickweed and then blamed it jealously on a trans person. Also, his daughter who disowned him and the fact that he explicitly had all 10 of his kids with IVF so he could choose that they be born male says a lot.

Apparently. Here is a list, sourced from the CIA World Facebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

The top 10 add up to about 65%, with the last several having about a 3.5% share each.

Yeah, I looked it up and I am way off! It’s actually…. (drumroll) English at about 19% followed by Mandarin with 13, then Hindi at about 8%.

I was thinking about how we (USA) are always in continuous (ghost) wars and never try to negotiate for peace, to my knowledge.

The US has supported or started many pointless wars, but that we have never negotiated for peace or avoided war is not accurate. One example is that the US, as part of the UN, participates in peacekeeping efforts across the world.

One country and one languague or would a world power have to forcibly join everyone together?

So, you know that ‘one world government’ is a thing that terrifies a lot of religious conservatives because they think it means the antichrist and the end of the world, right? The language thing is difficult too. From what i recall the most common language worldwide is Spanish, with 2.5-3 billion people speaking it, which means 5 billion or so people would have to learn Spanish, or we’d have to pick some other language and even more people would have to learn that.

I agree that nationalism is harmful, but overall it would be very, very difficult to persuade every country in the world to give up their language and national identity. Also, as central planning doesn’t work very well, any world government would have to be segmented to provide effective governance for regions, which would mean basically… like now… each region has it’s own government.

Most likely the reasonable thing to do would be to try to encourage countries to work together peacefully, rather than try to abolish nations.

I always choose to use mobile sites over apps, too. Privacy is better. You can save images, open multiple tabs, refresh pages and use bookmarks. I used to use old.reddit for years on my phone so the lemmy interface is a big step up and i think it’s fine as it is. Kbin is not bad on mobile either.

well, that’s too bad. See you later i guess

At the very least, one could view it as charging a very high membership fee for brands… $1,000 a month.

Here’s it is, straight from the horse’s rear:

X also warned advertisers that beginning Aug. 7, brands’ accounts will lose their verification—a gold check mark that indicates their account truly represents their brand—if they haven’t spent at least $1,000 on ads in the previous 30 days or $6,000 on ads in the previous 180 days, according to the email.

Wow, he just can’t stop making verification more useless. I’d expect that most brands would respond to this by not using Twitter (oops, ‘X’) any longer.