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- Comment on Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting? 1 day ago:
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.
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 3 days ago:
The ghosts in Super Mario Brothers 3 (1988) would pursue Mario only when he looked away. When he faced them they would stop and hide their faces.
- Comment on Reactionary memes when sorting by new 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is also finicky about when certain actions federate. If you watch the modlog you will sometimes see a user be banned, unbanned, and then immediately rebanned. That’s a mod or admin trying to get content removal to federate out to other instances.
That happened in the case of the spammer here ~3 hours ago. Their content was removed from their home instance but it stayed up in this community. It’s gone now, though.
- Comment on Protocol for purging inactive moderators? 3 weeks ago:
I’m definitely interested in hear other people’s opinions. Posting something in the Agora seems like a good idea. If nobody in this thread does it then maybe I’ll put something up myself in a few days.
For now, @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works’s suggestion is the way to go: PM one of us admins on a case-by-case basis and we’ll help out.
In the long term, maybe we should set some criteria for identifying dead or unmodertaed communities and locking them? Our instance has hundreds communities, many of which are hardly used and likely abandoned by their creators. I made an effort some months ago to find active mods for the busiest communities, and remove communities with no assigned moderator. I’m not sure what to do with the rest of them, if anything. They aren’t causing immediate problems. And confirming the activity status of every mod is one of those dull chores that has lingered at the bottom of my to-do list.
- Comment on Long time 3 weeks ago:
@GrymEdm@lemmy.world doing the Lord’s work here.
- Comment on Anyone else notice a long delay for comments/posts from lemmy.world? 5 weeks ago:
Some of the instance admins have been poking at this lagging federation issue for a few weeks now, trying to figure it out.
The Reddthat admin noticed that Lemmy’s federation process can’t seem to meet demand in some cases. Reddthat has had trouble staying current with lemmy.world due to the network latency between Europe and Australia: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/9807807. I understand that lemmy.nz has seen this, too.
Another thing that has been noticed is spamming of actions from kbin instances. It looks like some process gets stuck in a loop on the kbin side. https://kbin.social/m/kbinEarth@kbin.earth/t/928709/kbin-earth-federation-problems-fixed#entry-comment-5945451
I’m sure there are other contributing problems that still aren’t well understood. This software is a work in progress, after all.
- Comment on The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come 1 month ago:
I think “large” is relative to the Coastal Virginia and Block Island off-shore wind projects in the US, which are 12 MW and 30 MW respectively. Those are more like pilot projects.
I agree those off-shore turbines are absolute units. I would love to take a boat ride past one to get a feel for the scale.
- Comment on Why can animals eat grass that they have pooped on, but humans would get sick? 2 months ago:
They can and do get sick. Here’s an example of bovine parasites whose life cycle goes from cow to grass and back again:
https://livestock.extension.wisc.edu/articles/managing-worms-on-summer-pastures/
- Comment on Two amateurish questions 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Solar Panels Spread Across America's Heartland as Farmers Chase Stable Returns 2 months ago:
It works for wind, too. Farmers can get a few thousand dollars per turbine per year by leasing out relatively small sections of their property.
- Comment on If we can use hydrogen to power electric motors, why can’t we use water to run a car? 2 months ago:
Mass is conserved. If you split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then combine them back into water, you will have the same amount of water as when you started.
That’s assuming you don’t have leaky equipment in your lab, of course.
- Comment on If we can use hydrogen to power electric motors, why can’t we use water to run a car? 2 months ago:
Water is the exhaust product. Once you have water, the potential energy in the original chemical mix has already been released.
H~2~ + O --> H~2~O + energy (in the form of heat or electric potential)To break down water you have to reverse the reaction and put that energy back in. That’s how electrolysis works:
H~2~O + energy (in the form of electric potential) --> H~2~ + O - Comment on If Paul Bunyan were real, he would have been a major contributer to deforestation 2 months ago:
Why, everybody knows Paul’s the reason North Dakota doesn’t have any trees. He logged 'em all out!
- Submitted 2 months ago to main@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Comment on New to lemmy, anything I should know? 3 months ago:
Welcome!
Lemmy instances are in the middle of transitioning to a new version (0.19.x). It’s been a bit bumpy. You might notice some changes once this instance upgrades. We’ve been holding back until we’re confident that the new version is stable.
If you need to contact the admins you can message us directly. Or, for a faster response, get into our instance’s Matrix chat: https://matrix.to/#/#sh.itjust.works:matrix.org
- Comment on How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable? 3 months ago:
Regular CDs and DVDs are read-only. You cannot change the data on them in normal use.
You “rip” the disc by reading the data off the disc and writing it to some other media.
There are rewritable (CD-RW, DVD-RW) discs available. You can delete the data from these discs, but it’s not something you’re going to do accidentally.
- Comment on Thanks capitalism, very nice 3 months ago:
It’s got electrolytes!
- Comment on These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. 3 months ago:
If we work together we can stay one step ahead of the orphan crushing machine!
- Comment on Has there ever been an attempt to do a modern "novelisation" of Shakespeare's plays? 4 months ago:
There are certainly lots of film adaptations. I can think of two off the top of my head: Ten Things I Hate About You is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, and Disney’s The Lion King is straight Hamlet.
I’m surprised that I can’t easily find novelizations on Google. They must exist. If not, then that seems like a great opportunity.
- Comment on House of J (John+Joan Mastodon), or: Five Ways the Fediverse could help to save Liberal Democracy 4 months ago:
It’s ultimately under the umbrella of ideologies that support and prop up capitalism.
I think that’s a good summary.
“Classical liberalism” is basically what modern libertarians want: a laissez-faire capitalist economy, a secular representative government with very limited powers, prioritizing individual freedom over collective well-being, etc.
In my part of the world “liberalism” is now commonly used to refer to a different set of priorities: creating economic safety nets, regulating business, promoting universal healthcare, unions, gender equality, racial equality, etc. Though capitalism and a secular representative government are still part of the mix.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
DeWalt gang, stand up!
- Comment on Comment missing: where could it be? 4 months ago:
Here’s a screenshot of my view of the post to illustrate that I was trying to describe. The user you were replying to deleted their comment, which results in the whole comment tree becoming hidden.
I agree there’s some other weird stuff going on, too. This morning I received a user report that was days old. I’ll let TheDude know.
- Comment on Comment missing: where could it be? 4 months ago:
Left a response in the linked thread, but am copying it here, too:
From my view the original comment has been replaced with “deleted by creator”. If a user deletes a comment in Lemmy 0.18.5 then it and all its child comments are removed from public view. Though @AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works will still see their own comment in the comment history section of their user profile. I think that this behavior will change when we upgrade to 0.19x, and non-admin users will see “deleted by creator” as well.
There appears to be something else going on, too. If you view the post from lemmy.ca or literature.cafe (both of which are on Lemmy 0.19.1) the original comment is still there. It’s like those instances never got the memo that the comment was deleted. I can only assume this is related to the ongoing federation issues in Lemmy 0.19.x?
- Comment on infosec.pub defederated from sh.itjust.works? & any update on Beehaw.org? 4 months ago:
From my view the original comment has been replaced with “deleted by creator”. If a user deletes a comment in Lemmy 0.18.5 then it and all its child comments are removed from public view. Though @AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works will still see their own comment in the comment history section of their user profile.
There appears to be something else going on, too. If you view the post from lemmy.ca or literature.cafe (both of which are on Lemmy 0.19.1) the original comment is still there. It’s like those instances never got the memo that the comment was deleted. I can only assume this is related to the ongoing federation issues in Lemmy 0.19.x?
- Comment on happy new year to my favourite sh.itheads 4 months ago:
Yes! Thanks to everyone for making this place great. Here’s to a great year ahead!
- Comment on Beef Liners 4 months ago:
- Comment on Question on deleted replies 4 months ago:
It appears this behavior is fixed in Lemmy 0.19.1. Look at the same post via an instance that has upgraded: https://lemmy.ca/post/12129776
Our instance hasn’t upgraded to 0.19.x yet. We’re waiting for outgoing federation to be fixed: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11532242
- Comment on Question on deleted replies 4 months ago:
It looks like a user deleted their comment, causing the subsequent responses to not be shown. When I view the post from my admin account it’s all still visible to me (see the screenshot below). Though if I view the post from a non-admin account then the deleted comment and all its children are not shown.
I agree that this is weird behavior, but I think it’s by design. In this case I would prefer that Lemmy show everyone the “deleted by creator” note and keep the rest of the comment chain visible. I am not aware of any server or community settings to change this behavior.
- Comment on Did Europeans intentionally infect North American Natives with smallpox/disease? 4 months ago:
It’s at least plausible. A decade before Haida Gwaii was first seen by European explorers there was the 1763 Siege of Fort Pitt. During the siege the British famously attempted to infect the natives with smallpox by giving them blankets that had been used by smallpox patients. Whether it worked or not is a subject of debate, but the Europeans clearly had the idea that they could intentionally spread a disease to harm a population.
- Comment on A little downtime today? 4 months ago:
Making a post here will work. Though for the fastest response you should get into our instance’s Matrix chat: https://matrix.to/#/#sh.itjust.works:matrix.org