Is providing a number of commands to use that require user input really that bad? When people start tinkering with the command line, first of all they shouldn't trust just anything on the website blindly, which at the very least requires a basic understanding of how to enter commands, and respond to the terminal asking for input. The following "bad" example..

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt install python3.9

..is instead turned into this single command with even more confusing syntax for beginners:

sudo apt update && \
  sudo apt install --yes software-properties-common && \
  sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
  sudo apt install --yes python3.9

Sure, it's convenient, but if you just throw blocks of code at people to run, are they really learning anything?

A better approach would be to have a quick tutorial on how to use the terminal and what the $ and # symbols mean (though they could be CSS decorators that can't be copied), what sudo is and warning people about running untrusted commands on their system. Then you just link to that at the top saying something along the lines of "if you're unfamiliar with running commands, and the following seems confusing, check this quick summary", behind a question mark icon connected to each block of commands, or similar.

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.

Valve is not publicly traded. We don't know. (Unless it became public information through a lawsuit or was leaked. In which case: Source pls.)

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?

But whether it's technically legal is exactly what does or doesn't make it CSAM. "Looking like" is going to be highly subjective, and I don't understand how the admins of the other instance are supposed to handle reports, other than to verify whether or not it actually is the case or not.

Are petite looking people not supposed to make explicit content while dressing up cute? Should a trans man not share explicit pictures of himself, because he might look like an underage boy? Do we stop at porn that gives the appearance of someone being young? What about incest or ageplay? Like, what if you or someone else was made sufficiently uncomfortable by some other kind of porn? How do you decide what is and isn't okay? How do you avoid bias? What would you be telling a model when they ask why you removed their content?

Apologies for going on with this when I'm sure you're already sick of dealing with this. I had just felt like some of the points I brought up (like in my original reply) were entirely overlooked. Putting effort into an (attempted) thought-out reply doesn't mean I get to receive a response I was hoping for, but I was at least hoping for something you hadn't already said elsewhere.

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?