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Summit is great. On the web, search for remote communities in your own instance server. This will let access the com within your home server, and you should be able to subscribe with a single click.

Open the sidebar, that’s where instance rules live, generally.

Flaws? It’s a feature.

You could format a message with xmpp connection data, so both parties could “dial” and talk, if the client is aware of the format. A bit contrived, but workable.

Well, I think the size of their userbase naturally poses a higher workload for admins and mods. So they naturally will have a lower tolerance for any risqué behavior, by sheer need of expediency dealing with the issues there. So even if a smaller instance shares the rules with them, the way they’d apply the rules are likely to be quite different.

I was going to mention the FAF.

.world has its issues, mostly because of its behemoth size. Not all bans there would necessarily be a great idea to apply on instances that are an order or two of magnitude smaller. Their needs and approaches to moderation differ in enough ways that an auto-copy would probably not be advisable, unless we can reliably categorize them. If we can tell a ban comes because of CSAM, or something like that, that would make sense to immediately copy. But a behavioral / rule break sanction is much more closely tied to the specific instance rules and moderation standard.

I was able to implement community maintained blocklists.

Could you share how? That’s very interesting.

And Pixelfed, Peertube, Bookwyrm, PyLova, WAFRN, Mbin, Loops, Vernissage, … We are legion!

I consider myself quite tech savvy. Some 20 years ago I even coded for the PC, and might have run questionably sourced software a few times. Nowadays, I have a home server, do my tiny bit of tinkering. My current approach to pirated software is “nope”. I find it too much trouble to still not feel safe. If there isn’t an open source alternative, I’ll either cough up the dough for the real deal or go without.

I’m racking my brain to remember something, but it’s usually very mundane stuff, and I’ve been here long enough that I got used to it all so it faded to background. What I do remember clearly was the uncanny sensation of being inside a TV show, and it happening with a certain frequency in my first year. I can’t really recall the exact situations that triggered it, though, sorry.

I think as an immigrant, I might actually more qualified than Americans to answer that. And broadly speaking, yes. The accents will vary; the conversation isn’t rehearsed so there are a lot more uhms, ahs, and interrupting one another; witty banter is less prevalent; stuff like that that is the usual differences between a script and real life. But the cultural differences? They’re there. Most US media is incredibly grounded in their reality. I caught myself befuddled in many situations because it felt surreal, like I was in a TV show. I couldn’t believe what I watched on the TV was real and not just something contrived to drive the plot where the writer wanted. But it was real.

Did they stutter? Clarifying comment, move on.

New Godwin’s law just dropped.

Always projection with them boomers, man.

I’m so glad we have such competent strategists. I’d be much more glad if they didn’t have a seat at Congress at all, so they can focus on strategy and leave politics to people that are clearly better at it than their inept asses.

“why are you exercising your political rights and making your voice heard? You voted, that’s enough, now shut up until the next election.”

No.

beans

Looks inside.

No beans.

AFAIK gedit doesn’t recover your scribbles unless you save them. Not sure about the others, but I expect the same of them.

“My heart goes out to you, bean appreciators!” - the cat