thats not a whole instance though. thats just a place for an account to be. on activity pub platforms anyone can just make an entire indepent and independently functional instance of the platform.

let them sue, parody is fair use. get that bag king

its harder than that too because you can’t really be neutral, you have to be what the political majority in the area that pays your bills thinks neutral looks like. in our case, thats redneckistan. thankfully most of the ones that would cause issues dont go to the library anyway (although for literacy reasons I’d still rather they did) but if some of the homeschoolers parents decide to raise hell on Facebook it could be bad for us. they are pretty dependent on us though bc ours is the library they have available for their kids but they still could do that if they wanted.

but can I use a random old computer I have in my house to run an instance as long as there are a managable number of users? renting a server isnt self hosting. making one yourself is self hosting.

idk what the Dewey decimal on it was but it was in nonfiction bc we only have fiction, nonfiction, paperbacks, and fiction and nonfiction again for junior, ya, easy, and Spanish.

at our library something like a small tear is generally fine but if its major damage you are fined whatever it’ll cost us to replace the book right then edit: spelling

yeah, homeschooling needs some more regulation.

this sums up my experience with them pretty well too

why second-hand? those are the ones she already won’t get anything from.

we dont have an ‘adult’ section, just regular fiction and nonfiction and accompanying sections for ya and junior. i have no idea what a ya nonfiction book is and neither does anyone else who works there rn so nothing has been going to that section.

its especially concerning since we get a lot of people who are the bad kind of homeschoolers. the trump books and audiobooks dont move at all thankfully.

as a public facility, the library is supposed to prioritize what the public is using. because the book was getting used, bullshit can’t even be official.

bluesky is technically decentralized, but the way it does it makes self-hosting all but impossible due to storage requirements. because of that, it really isnt. its like how a lot of ai models are ‘open-source’ even though the training data isnt available and the ai is still effectively a black box. it isnt decentralized unless anyone can make an instance, just like how it isnt open-source unless you have access to everything that makes it work (yes, by this definition chromium and android aren’t truly open-source, and I stand by that).

i hope they do something related to vr so I can finally have a sane and simple solution for Linux pcvr

there’s already a dock

it has a combined “timeline” view in the mobile app now, and though it isn’t much better the website (for my instance, anyway) only requires one click.

I like kbin, think of it basically like if someone took lemmy and mastodon and made one platform that could use both. there is only one mobile app but it’s pretty good imo.

I’m sure you’ve seen it before, but jic have you tried it takes two?

i bet a well done co-op mode would be appreciated though

makes the text hard to read but otherwise I think it’s fine