The quickest way I actually did see someone get fired at my place was by posting racist shit on Facebook - on an account that was followed by many of his colleagues, including his manager. He was summarily dismissed at the start of his next shift.

Another one stole customers’ credit card numbers, but that one ended up with a criminal record.

I think I’ll remain agnostic on that one. Ask me again in 50 years and I’ll probably know the answer by then. Unless I happen to somehow reach the age of 106 without dying, in which case I’ll take a raincheck.

The Peak District is right on my doorstep (I’m near Manchester). Monsal Dale, near Little Longstone, is lovely. It was a regular place ofr my family to visit when I was a kid, and I still go up there sometimes. The walk along the river from there to Millers Dale is lovely. And there’s a pub at Monsal dale viaduct (or at least, there was, not sure if it’s still open).

More locally, I like the area around Uppermill, Diggle and Delph (north-east of Oldham). There’s a great little riverside cafe caled the Lime Kiln, just north of Uppermill. It gets busy at weekends though.

A couple of weeks ago I went up to the Northumbria coast for a holiday. Warkworth, Alnwick, Bamburgh, Holy Island… it’s all beautiful around there.

Reddit “stuff” isn’t automatically crossposted here. You’ll only see it when users decided to do that themselves. There are a number of communities that are equivalent to subreddits but the content in them is all new. Lemmy doesn’t have any direct feed to Reddit content.

I now fully understand why those cars keep exploding… 😂

It seems that this happens when you subscribe to a community on a different instance from your own. You can still read, post and interact exactly as if you were fully subscribed, you’re just not counted in the number of subscribers. I’ve been told that you can force the system to subscribe you properly by repeatedly unsubbing and re-subbing, but I’ve had no luck with doing that so I just leave them alone now.

I think its a GOOD thing to do that. I mean, the more content there is here, the faster it will grow, right?

Aye

I like it better than Lemmy/Kbin. It’s more polished, more user-friendly, fewer bugs and missing features. But, Mastodon doesn’t have a way of running groups/communities effectively, and that’s what I’m really looking for, and why I’m here.

OMG those quotes mention so many of my early internet memories. Dreamwidth. And before that, Livejournal before it sucked. And Diaryland. And Diary-X. And egroups. I miss those days so much. Twitter and Reddit weren’t the first to jump the shark, by a long shot.

I think lemmings is the best one. Lemmings are cute.

Grocery delivery. I can’t drive, and it costs me £4 to get to the nearest supermarket and back, with whatever I can carry in my hands, on the bus. I can order 4 times that volume or more for home delivery, for £3 or less. The only catch is a £40 minimum purchase price but I can easily manage that if I order once a week or less (and any time my order falls short, I just add in one or two bottles of wine).

I still use Flickr, but bear in mind that a free account can have a maximum of 1000 images. Its taken me about 7 years to hit the limit so I just delete older ones as I add new ones in.

I vote for defederation.

I’m in favour of sharing and experiencing diverse opinions but not where those opinions involve hatred and gross personal attacks on certain groups. People like this cannot be educated, cannot be persuaded, and their rhetoric causes a great deal of harm.

Yes, they did! And that’s also how they went back when they were done.

yes, because no ads basically means my antivirus software has nothing to do. Creators have no choice over what ads are served up with the content and 99% of ads are loaded with malware whether you click on them or not.

Creators need to come up with better ways to monetise their content instead of relying on them.

Classic martini, dirty, with an olive.

No, not really. I used Reddit more for discussions on niche topics/subreddits and tend to particpate more in text posts than link posts. I was never on Reddit for news or politics and its the same here. I’m engaging in fewer discussions on Lemmy so far, simply because there are fewer of them here right now.

nope. Its only affecting some threads, the settings of which are identical to the others, so it appears not to be a language issue.

It started as written, but diverged in many directions, including to a dimesion of my own creation. At one point, the group ended up on the Starship Enterprise (Next Gen version) which was unexpected, but fun.