I hardly ever check how old anyone’s account is. I try to be nice to everyone regardless of who they are, and discuss issues rather than posters.
I hardly ever check how old anyone’s account is. I try to be nice to everyone regardless of who they are, and discuss issues rather than posters.
Yes, but then you can have malicious servers sending fake numbers without other server operators being able to check whether this is at all plausible.
(It’s still possible for malicious servers to send fake votes, but server operators can see which users they are stated to originate from, then block that server if that looks like it’s doing that. At least that is my understanding.)
Yes, after all other servers need this information in order to prevent double voting, you can’t just have servers sending each other information “somebody upvoted this” and also tell when servers are allowing users to vote more than once.
So upvotes and downvotes aren’t actually private, never have been, some servers may display them publicly even if most don’t.
absolutely, e.g. right now
and is saying that it somehow means Facebook owns it
owns what?
It does mean that Facebook owns the copyright to a software component that TikTok (apparently) also uses. They licensed it under a free and open source software license, so anybody (including TikTok, including you, including me) can download it and use it as part of their own software. It does not mean Facebook owns TikTok, nor that Facebook owns any other piece of software this is used in.
If you want to see more examples of similar notices: if you are using Firefox, enter about:license into your URL bar. If you are using Chrome, enter chrome://credits/ there. You’ll find that these browsers, like many pieces of software nowadays, rely heavily on open source components developed by third parties.
I used to read RSS feeds from Thunderbird a long time ago, but that required me to set them up again on every reinstallation and every device, so I eventually stopped doing that.
Nowadays I read RSS feeds on Mastodon. There’s a service https://rss-parrot.net/ that converts any RSS feed into a fediverse account, so you get RSS feed updates into your feed along with everything else you follow there. Of course it would be even better if blogs and news sites just posted directly on the fediverse, but not all of them do.
your link doesn’t work, here’s what you meant to link to: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/germany-and-genocide
(Also this will probably be deleted on this sub because it’s not a link to an actual news source.)
Most things are in German, but if something isn’t translated to German yet or I can’t be bothered to change it from English, it doesn’t bother me much to use it in English either.
Spain (Ceuta, Melilla, Canary Islands, etc.) and Portugal (Madeira) too then, but most of these countries’ territory is in Europe.
It does? Rich people or companies they own might want to produce things that infringe on patents too; not obvious that this has anything to do with “rich people” one way or the other.
This has also been the narrative on recent techdirt.com posts, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/at-last-doge-and-musk-are-finally-named-in-a-lawsuit-albeit-officially/ - I (not being American) do not know or care enough about the topic to have an opinion about it.
nothing at all is universally “blocked on Lemmy”, different instances + communities set rules that apply there, that is kinda the point of it all…
If you think this is a good idea for a specific community, ask its moderators to create and enforce a rule for this, or create a community of your own where you can set any rules you like.
I only comment when I feel I am adding something to the conversation that nobody else has added. On many contentious topics, nearly everything that can be said has already been said by someone, so I usually don’t comment on them.
I only downvote when something is blatantly factually false or posted in bad faith (i.e. obviously trolling and I can’t think of a good-faith reason why someone would post this).
If I merely disagree with something, I write an answer explaining why, or if there already is one that I agree with, I upvote that.
One major change that has happened is: forums used to be linear with thread bumping (phpBB, SMF), now they are mostly conversation trees with sorting by upvotes or similar (Reddit, Lemmy).
Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went “and that’s on Lake Michigan, so it’s in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it’s in Illinois”.
honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember “that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan”.
The fediverse is inherently a place where it’s a lot harder to delete anything than on non-federated platforms. It always will be because everything you post here is instantly copied to hundreds (if not thousands) of other servers. Some of them may be actively hostile and intentionally not respect deletions. Some of them may just be misconfigured or for another non-malicious reason fail to delete things.
So don’t post things on the fediverse that you think you might one day regret.