The preferred currency when accidentally buying a horse

I do this as well but there’s been quite a few times when the email input wouldn’t accept it and it’s usually on the sites you really wanna have it on.

If you really want your mind blown check out UserLAnd

Wow I applied these PRs on my server as well, running waaay lighter now. And it seems the federation misses have cleared up! Bravo Lemmy.world team!

I was thinking more like, nobody can access lemmy.world anymore

Oh god imagine an official Minecraft shout-out directing people to Lemmy.world…

Lemmy.world is running Lemmy version 0.17.4 right now (check the bottom of any Lemmy instance and it’ll tell you what version is running). The new version fixes a lot of things, but lemmy.world can’t upgrade to that new version yet because it’ll be overrun by bot accounts. We have to wait for the next version and skip this update because that has the protections for bot accounts.

I’ve recently taken to calling it “GNU Plus Linux”

Looking forward to the internet historian video!

I don’t think that makes sense as an explanation for killing off 3PA/API access. 3PAs would increase user base, and so collection of data, by virtue of providing more channels by which users can contribute and improving the experience for those people would likely increase their engagement. The mod tools that make use of the API would also help with curating that data, which increases its value to an AI consumer.

What’s Tilde? Tried looking it up but all that comes up is a software firm and a translator app.

I can help you out here! It’s not easy to wrap your head around at first because of how accustomed we are to the centralised internet by now, but it’s actually fairly simple. Let’s take Lemmy for example, anybody can create their own Lemmy instance (e.x. Beehaw.org, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml) and basically have their own functioning Reddit clone website. The fediverse/federated network only comes into play when a bunch of these instances connect to one another. You can totally just have a Lemmy instance and not federate with any other instances, but if you do, they share content with each other. This content is copied over between the two, and regularly synced (there’s some more complicated wiring happening in the bg to make this more real-time, but what happens is essentially a sync between the content of the instances). In the case of Lemmy, that means the directory of subreddits on one instance is exposed to the other instance. This extends to the posts and comments as well. When you see a post from another server in your instance, it means that the instance you signed up on is “aware” of the other instance and shared content with it, and when you comment on that post, your comment is created in your instance and then later on shared with the other instance (which is why you can comment on a post in another instance and see it in that other instance).

That’s how Lemmy takes advantage of the “fediverse” but it’s not the only one. You’ve probably heard of Mastodon, which does the same except with tweets. There are also efforts to replicate other social media, such as YouTube (see: PeerTube), Facebook (see Friendica, GNU Social, and Misskey), Instagram (see PixelFed), and I’m sure others as well.

Tl;dr the fediverse is just a bunch of independently-run websites that share content with each other.

Same, honestly. From a UX perspective that should really be the most prominent function for a new user but it’s tucked behind a swipe menu and a button press.