I've looked into Wolfire's claims multiple times in the past, but it was never confirmed elsewhere, so I don't know what to think. Maybe this was a thing Valve did in the past (in which case, yes, boo!), but they couldn't get away with it anymore, with the volume of developers that are now on their platform.
Why are you making it my responsibility to explain why companies are not passing on their savings to consumers?
A lot of contributors of FOSS projects make small changes that aren't copyrightable.
Actually this is pretty easy. First of all you got to get a stack of exactly 1 TNT and place it down where you want it to explode. Be careful not to put anything else in the slot the TNT was in because that's now shadow-linked with the TNT you placed. You need to somehow get a redstone signal to activate in the same tick as you punch the TNT block. It'll take a bunch of tries. Be careful not to pick up the dropped TNT item, or it'll go into the shadowed slot. That part is pretty random. Next open up the chat and type "BOOOM!" or similar. It helps if you copied the text beforehand so you only have to paste it in. Log out of the server and never come back because you're a bad person.
My only experience with Mind Traveler was them engaging with almost every single comment in one thread, seemingly stirring up stuff. I'm not sure about others, but to me that's not how I want anyone to interact with a forum such as Lemmy. I don't want half of the comments in a thread to be from a single user trying to argue every single other person, being as noisy as they can be.
Also, what is your stake in this? You aren't a particularly active user, at least from what I can see from my Lemmy instance. There might be reason to believe you're an alt account of Mind Traveler or a friend trying to push some narrative.
Besides, if anyone is not happy with the actions of our Lemmy admins, which are unlikely to change, why not just move to another instance? That's the beauty of the fediverse, after all. Unless, of course, they aren't welcome on other instances either.
Please, no more drama or attempting to discredit Blåhaj Lemmy admins.
As a spectator with no stake in what happened, except of course wanting people to feel comfortable, I feel like two things were still left unaddressed:
It looked like the owner of the affected community was driven out by something that almost resembled a witch hunt, with accusations that appeared to be unfounded or even maliciously pushed by people opposing the views or moderation style of the community.
There was a particular user who stood out to me because they tried to respond to as many posts as possible, seemingly fueling the drama, or at least actively pushing their opinion on everyone. I feel like this is not the appropriate way to interact in such a forum, nor healthy for that individual.
What did the admins do or are planning to do in regards to these concerns?
The reason I brought up emotion in my reply was because I've felt that the lemmynsfw admins have been able to explain their decision quite reasonably and seemed to be open to conversation, wheras Ada was set on one goal and upon finding disagreement, wasn't in the right mindset to continue a constructive conversation. Which, to be fair, due to the nature of the content, is understandable.
If the content that the Blahaj Lemmy admins are concerned about are limited to certain communities, and part of the issue is the concentration of content in said communities in the first place (at least, as I speculated in my original reply), then I don't quite understand why blocking these communities only isn't something that was considered, rather than defederating the entire instance. I do respect Blahaj Lemmy's decision not to want to host such content. Or is there some technical limitation that I'm not aware of?
On Mastodon, when you follow another user on another instance, your instance will send a request to the other, to be notified of new posts made by that user, as well as posts they've boosted. When such a new post arrives, a copy will be created on your instance so it can be displayed without nagging the original instance again for the post's content and such.
Lemmy is similar of course, since it uses the same underlying protocol (ActivityPub). Think of communities as "special users". Whenever someone creates a post or reply, the community will boost it, so it ends up on every instance where a user has subscribed to that community.
This part I'm not entirely sure on but I believe it's how things work: The other way to send messages around other than subscription is obviously to send messages directly. In ActivityPub there's a field that specifies the recipients of a message. When such a message is created, it is pushed to the instances of the recipients. On Lemmy, the recipient is the community you're posting to. On Mastodon, the recipients are filled with all the users that you @-mention in the contents of the message. So for a Mastodon user to post to Lemmy, they have to mention the community, which is why you see some posts that contain the community's handle.
Because you can't follow / subscribe to users on Lemmy, the posts of Mastodon users that don't involve Lemmy never end up being "federated", meaning Lemmy instances don't get notified of these posts, so they don't end up being "copied". This is the same on Mastodon by the way. Unless your instance sends out a request to fetch posts from an unknown user, it doesn't know about their posts, since nobody so far has cared about them.
This makes sense because if you were to try and store all the content from the fediverse you would need a LOT of storage for little gain. Similarly it would be bad to never store the content and always fetch it, because that would generate a bunch of additional traffic, which especially small instances would suffer from.
To summarize: Lemmy doesn't display Mastodon posts because it doesn't have a mechanism to subscribe to those users.
Trans girls: Both? Both.
Cis girls: Free money.
Trans boys: Not sure if worth.
Egg (female): Wouldn't it be funny if I pressed this button and turned into a girl instead of getting the money which is totally the reason I pressed the button? That'd be a total bummer. Haha, right? ... unless?
Source: https://twitter.com/RiniDisc/status/1582578949120741376
And so is #furries, so have the coolest Linux fox too~
This was from before RiniDisc joined Mastodon.
Transcription of the Twitter thread (including screenshots):
with the permission of alan mackey himself, i'd like to present to y'all the linux fox herself: Xenia!
(info thread to follow, happy #PrideMonth!!)
i actually had this done a while back, but i figured that i should finally let this out of the bag, haha.
a couple weeks back, alan emailed me about my initial drawing and divulged some information about it! like that the orginal image was drawn w/ a mouse on an amiga, and that his brother Ed, who was more involved with Linux at the time, was the one tht prompted him to enter the contest.
lastly, he also told me this!
The fox was intended to be male, although certainly drawn fairly androgynously.. But to me your interpretation of her as female actually makes a lot of sense especially in the context of time. It matches the transitions of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know.
so i'm like "yooo holy shit does that mean that i made her trans then?? this kicks ass", then suggested her name be "Xenia", a name picked by my girlfriend (who had shown me her design in the first place)
he approved. i made the linux fox trans without even realizing!
And sure, you made her trans! Yes, feel free to run down these emails too. Xenia seems like a very appropriate name. I just read Stephen Fry's Mythos, and he had a lot to say about the ancient Greek concept of Xenia. What a weird coincidence.
now, i'm transfem but not a programmer. i like tech and computers but i'm 2 dumb lmao. however, i know a lot of trans girls (incl. my gf) are, so i'd say this is pretty neat lolol
that's kind of all i had to say lol, happy pride from me n Xenia!
- F. Sinclaire
Not hating on people who like and enjoy PvP games, but to me it feels like it's a good way for a developer to make a game that doesn't actually have that much substance. Lacking content? Nothing to actually do in the game? NPCs are difficult to make interesting to fight? Just have players shoot each other. It's basically content that creates itself, not to mention (if you have good matchmaking) the difficulty ramps up naturally without you having to write better enemy AI.
I just want to fight stuff alongside other people, rather than potentially making another person's day just a little worse because I shot them before they shot me, you know? Is that too much to ask?
By questioning the person's neopronouns, you're gatekeeping which identities or pronouns are acceptable. Nobody cares whether dragons are real or not. Many letters of the alphabet mafia have been questioned on whether they are real or not, and even continue to be, so over here, we're simply not doing that.
As for why you're being disrespectful: You broke the rules of the space and now you're making a big stink about it. Considering you're admitting yourself you think this person is a troll, I think it's time to admit your loss. You "fell" for them, got "tricked" into breaking a rule, and got banned as a result.