jameseb

@jameseb@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the good news is that according to this list, your instance already blocks Threads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some posts all of a sudden have a yellow background to them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  10 minutes based on my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Jesus Christ a lich?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To give a theological answer, no. A lich is usually understood as a sorcerer who has achieved an undead state or immortality, usually by binding their soul to the corporeal world in a phylactery. That does not apply in Jesus’ case, since he did not pursue any sort of magic to avoid death, much less binding his soul to a phylactery. The resurrection of Jesus was a supernatural act of God, restoring Jesus to true life.

  As to the second part of your question, I was not aware that holy water harming liches was a common trope in fiction (it is usually seen in reference to vampires), but even if it is applied to undead more widely, we have established that Jesus was restored to true life, not to any form of unnatural undeath. Moreover, holiness comes from God (that which is holy is set apart for God), and Jesus is fully God, so contact with holy things would not harm him. Indeed, Christ is now in the true holy place in heaven (Hebrews 9:24), which we can only enter when cleansed by his blood (Hebrews 10:19-22).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg: Actually, Threads Is Great, Approaching 100M Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand why people wouldn’t specifically talk about the fediverse on other sites. It just seems like there is a lot of coverage of X and Meta in the news, but there doesn’t seem to have been even a passing mention of fediverse sites in most of what I’ve seen. I guess the more established social media sites are still a lot more significant than fediverse alternatives though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg: Actually, Threads Is Great, Approaching 100M Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s sad is that people aren’t talking about Mastodon nearly as much as they are talking about Threads and X. It just doesn’t seem to get much publicity outside of the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The admin made a post reporting on the finances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your detailed post. I appreciate your measured response and approach to defederation, particularly given the personal attacks you suffered. I’m happy with your approach - as long as users who do break the rules can be dealt with, there is no need to defederate.