One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

That sounds like uncontrolled dosages of Desoxyn.

weekend = day_of_week in (“sat”, “sun”)

As a bonus this completely sidesteps the issue of what day is 0 or 1.

Those are different kinds of fine motor skills than used when writing cursive. Ideally kids should be exposed to both.

Cursive writing helps in developing fine motor skills.

Yeah, hobbit-serial architectures lack performance.

So the Fellowship of the Ring was made up of an elf, a dwarf, two humans, a maia and one hobnibble?

Oh hey, how about Madagascar?

“Clearly these numbers have a ritual purpose”

Thank you!

As I’m saying, I don’t think you need to: manually subscribing to each trusted instance via ActivityPub should suffice. The pass/fail determination can be done when querying for known images.

How about a federated system for sharing “known safe” image attestations? That way, the trust list is something managed locally by each participating instance.

Edit: thinking about it some more, a federated image classification system would allow some instances to be more strict than others.

Yes: it prevents things like death threats mods have been known to receive on the centralised Lemmy precursor.

With instances already disappearing (eg. vlemmy), content is being lost. Are you considering a lemmy archive?

Bragging and getting the names of the researchers in the press.

In my opinion this runs counter to the idea of federation

The rest of the internet runs counter to the idea of federation, yet Lemmy must work with it.