I can’t imagine the engine being amazing when they start, but I hope they have the flexibility to improve the performance and reliability.

Am I missing something though: what are users worried about in terms of fragmentation that applies to Lemmy?

I think it’s that they don’t know ANYTHING about it, other than it’s a bunch of different servers that seem to operate independently. So they have no idea how the whole thing operates. I’ve been on Lemmy for about 18 months and I don’t know how the federation works for Mastodon or Friendica - I actually looked up Friendica the other day but just gave up after looking at the list of instances. I don’t know what it means to use a specific instance for Friendica, even though I know what it means for Lemmy. These people won’t know what it means at all.

I haven’t seen the second series yet, but the first was great. My wife got me the book as a present last year and flew through it.

I’d rather people call out - like you have done - why it’s bollocks and try and get the title changed. If the content was also bullshit then I think the downvotes would be warranted.

I’d rather see comments that challenge the title rather than just blindingly downvoting it.

I don’t know much about government finances, but surely there has to be a point where the government is unable to actually pay for any services because it’s servicing an insane level of debt, and it cannot continue to borrow more?

I absolutetly hate eating from the sofa, I don’t know how people do it regularly.

We don’t really have any serious earthquakes in Europe though. I believe the building codes in LA make it expensive and difficult to build with brick due to the dangers of brick buildings collapsing during earthquakes.

I’ll be interesting how they desgin the city going forward though, surely they’ll need to have some kind of fire-breaking defences in between suburbs.

https://sopuli.xyz/ if you’re European

Out of curiosity, how come you don’t recommend your own instance, feddit.org?

I think the main concern new users have are “Can I see everything across Lemmy, or will I be getting a fragmented experience?”. This was my initial concern and I’ve seen Redditors also voice this concern. People don’t know if being on an instance means you can only be isolated to that instance, which would mean missing out on wider content, or whether you see everything (at which point you might ask what is the point of the instances then?).

By presenting people with “here’s an instance if you’re American, here’s another if you’re European” might support the idea that people will get differenct experiences based on their location. They might ask: “Do Americans see different content to Europeans? What’s the difference? Maybe the American instance will have more users so I’ll pick that instead.”

In reality it doesn’t matter, you can sign up to an instance and subscribe to 0 communities on your own instance, but people don’t know this if they don’t know anything about it. I do wonder whether instances should be scored by a few factors and recommended that way?

• How many instances they’ve defederated from - the bigger the number the more it negatively affects the score
• How many admins it has - instances with 1 admin should not be recommended at all
• Availability - probably don’t want to recommend instances with poor uptime
• Theme - more general purpose instances would score higher, while instances with a specific focus would score lower

It would be good if the join-lemmy site could randomly create you an account on one of the instances that qualify. Take that cognitive load away from the user and make that choice for them - and make it clear that they’re free to sign up to any instance they want.

Why is this post being downvoted?

You need to use tags on your resources if you want to get a better breakdown of what your more specific resources are costing you.

You can filter by tags in cost explorer.

I don’t know why people bother with lemmy.ml at all - just add it to your user instance block list and move on.

The OS is riddled with ads

Is there a particular edition that’s prone to this? I don’t see any on my work or personal laptop. Either that or they’re so subtle that I don’t even see them.

ICBM launch control operator

Maybe it should show the number of calories you’d burn going up the stairs. It would be a small number, but it’s better than 0.

And we demand justice, we demand punishment of the guilty, we demand full transparency and human behavior," the head of state emphasized.

Yeah good luck with that one bud. Join the back of the queue with everyone else, bring a sleeping bag and some food, the queue isn’t moving very fast.

I’ve not heard of them but we’ve definitely had a few moments where some toys will suddenly start singing in the middle of the night, it’s quite creepy!

I like it!

Because people are idiots and like to press buttons.

Source: me

I got the LEGO McLaren speed champions F1 set (76919), been a while since I got some Lego!

What do you mean?