The Onion got new owners earlier this year, and they seem serious about making it a sharp and relevant publication

Has anyone else bought a durian fruit even after being warned about it? Talk about acquired tastes…

A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment

The modlog shows you were having quite a spat with some mods 5 months ago.

Nothing else

Again, the modlog shows otherwise.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=111123

Why bring this up now, five months later?

Ooo, this looks cool. So it’s a self-hosted file management tool that lets you follow other users and share files with them?

After digging into it, we banned the two sh.itjust.works accounts mentioned in this post. A quick search of the database did not reveal any similar accounts, though that doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

Also lotide, if you’re into a minimalist text-only interface.

For a FOSS but not federated option there’s Discuit.

“Latitude” can mean freedom of choice, or scope of work, rather than position on the Earth. I think he’s saying that it looks like the work of some low-level employee just doing what they’re told without thinking much about it.

There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:

!politics@hexbear.net
!politics@beehaw.org
!usa@midwest.social
!worldpolitics@lemmy.ca
!geopolitics@lemmy.run
!politics@sh.itjust.works

[Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]

The community was removed from lemmy.ml by their admins. Here’s the reason in the modlog:

Unmoderated duplicate of /c/usa . Any world-related can use /c/worldnews

Supposedly this is at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth, Massachusettes. I would not be surprised at all if it’s real; having a Dunkin’ Donuts in the hospital would totally track for Massachusetts.

Some brands do this continually. That’s how Eddie Bauer or The Gap is constantly having a 30% off sale on one thing or another.

And it works. It’s called “price anchoring.”

This community is going to stay open for now. I found another user interested in taking over moderation. Mentioning @ReadyUser31@lemmy.world for info.

Also, after further discussion with other users, I’m less enthusiastic about shutting down whitepeopletwitter. It’s our instance’s busiest community, so closing it would feel like a significant loss. And moving a high-traffic community to lemmy.world exacerbates the problem of Lemmy’s federation throughput bug, which hasn’t been resolved yet.

I kept this community open because @SendMeYourTaTas@sh.itjust.works volunteered to mod. Though they appear to have been inactive for a few months. I reached out to see if they’re still around. If I don’t hear back then I think we should go ahead and merge this community with !microblogmemes@lemmy.world. The mod over there, @ReadyUser31@lemmy.world, was okay with merging when I asked in February.

Competing standards and clueless sellers are bad, and then the tire marketing makes things even worse.

Marketed for road? That’s 700c.
Marketed for mountain? That’s 29".
Marketed for ebikes? That’s 28".

But all three tires fit on the same 622mm diameter rim.

It varies greatly depending on your setup.

Lemmy.world’s monthly expenses are around €1,200. Though that includes hosting more services that just Lemmy.
https://blog.mastodon.world/

For comparison, it looks like £30 per month for lemmy.zip:
https://lemmy.zip/post/7766703

And lemmy.ca is around CAD$30 per month:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/39134

At one point Reddthat.com was considering moving to a bigger server that would cost A$150-200 per month:
https://reddthat.com/post/8840079

Some of those instance names are, uh, interesting.

I think GDP in this case, but yeah, same idea. It makes sense that wealthy countries with good infrastructure are going to be high on the list.

Country (nominal GDP rank)
USA (1)
France (7)
Germany (4)
Japan (3)
Finland (47)
Canada (9)
Netherlands (18)
Russia (8)
UK (6)

High-GDP countries that are notably missing are China (2, users are limited by the Great Firewall) and India (5, still building their infrastructure).

I wonder why Finland is so high on the list? Good for them, regardless.

Tangentially related: if you see something that needs to be addressed now, like CSAM or gore, notify an instance admin via Matrix. That tool can send push notifications, so you’re more likely to get a prompt response. Some instances also have public Matrix chats you can use.

You can find the Matrix account info for Lemmy users by clicking the “Send Secure Message” button in a user’s profile.

Stranger: jumps me with a compliment

Me, out loud: “Awww, thank you!”
Me, in my head: WTF? Who is this, and what are they trying to get from me?

Viewing a Lemmy account’s posts from Mastodon seems to work. Going the other way, viewing a Mastodon account’s toots from Lemmy, does not work.

Pixelfed can see Lemmy and Mastodon accounts, but it does not show the posts or comments from those accounts. The reverse is also true: Lemmy and Mastodon can see Pixelfed accounts but not their content.

At least these were my results the last time I experimented with cross-platform interaction. Maybe there are some tricks I have not learned yet.