I have observed many posts on Lemmy about replacing old and damaged shoes over the last day or so. What is this about?

Oh, heck no. Recall was bad enough.

Are these posts worth responding to on Lemmy, since they’re just bot generated cross-links from Reddit?

The site appears to be down.

Perhaps a second wave will be incoming, per this post about a coming Reddit paywall for some content: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32792815

Kagi user chiming in here. Have been incredibly happy with the service in terms of search quality and overall usefulness since subscribing. Feels like Google in the early, early days (I was there) before they lost their soul. Their changelog page is instructive; – https://kagi.com/changelog

Downvoted since the article is paywalled by Medium.

There is also a reputed new cat-to/from-human transmission vector for H5N1, which was briefly noted in a CDC report last week before being redacted: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html . NYT article may be paywalled, but details can be found in other media sources as well.

Ah, of course! Thanks for jogging my memory. Despite the growth in users, many of the communities on Lemmy remind me of the old days of BBSes and web foraa. Hopefully the Fediverse will maintain its friendliness and usefulness as it expands.

Is that correlated with students getting out of school for the summer and joining, or a different event? I have noticed a lower quality of conversation in a number of communities recently.

My pleasure. I agree!

Thank you!

Hi HellsBelle,

Firstly, sorry for my overly snarky response. I know that the “don’t change the headline” rule was strictly enforced in many subreddits, but I wasn’t aware that this applied here as well. Is this a rule for this particular community or the entire Lemmy instance it’s on? Would you be kind enough to share a pointer to the rule list?

You don’t have to repeat the clickbait headline. Write your own!

I assume this involves sending all text to Fakespot / Mozilla for analysis, which is concerning from a privacy standpoint. Their privacy policy seems to snarf many different categories of data, and they say explicitly that they may link data to your identity and use it for marketing purposes: https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-notice

Ah, very likely. I’m a literalist at heart, which is often at odds with posts of this nature. Thank you.

The screenshot shown references nothing about a payment plan or a 69% APR. What am I missing?

Downvoting for clickbait. What’s the word?

Rick rolling aside, what happened?

Thank you, Slatlun. It’s a pet peeve of mine. I read somewhere that not rewriting article headlines is a holdover from some subreddits who prohibited the practice.