the upsides outweigh the historical data IMO.

Err… may I ask, based on what?

Personally, I put in hundreds of hours in to hundreds of mini-articles in the body of those ~400 posts I created across ~two years. For me, it would have to be an absolutely stellar set of features and security for me to go to some other instance which didn’t have the means to migrate anything over. Like, what would be the point, mate…?

Oh, right… instead of an absolute URL-style link.
Good point, thank you!

Thanks, Abby Normal!
Btw, if you happen to know of any communities which might be interested in us, please give a holler…

Seems like all the high-visibility, internet-focused corporations are rushing forward to bend the knee.

I guess it would be pretty interesting to see one of them do the opposite. As in, how easily and quickly would the exec and other branches be able to attack them, maybe even to destroy them?

Or for grabbing a hot chunk from the fireplace. I think in pre-electric days they’d do that to quickly heat something up or maybe light a cigar, etc.

In the Lotus Position, please!

Why not just post Moe’s Finale’s original link? It’s much easier to read there, anyway.

@allywilson@lemmy.ml @swab148@lemm.ee

Looking for comics/cartoons like The Far Side Gallery

If you mean The Far Side (I don’t know what “Gallery” refers to), then there’s been practically a cottage industry of such. Some that come to mind would be: Bizarro, Ballard Street, In the Bleachers, Off the Mark, Non Sequitur and there’s no doubt a dozen+ more…

Thanks, Blaze.
Appreciate. ^^

Seems kind of weirdly unnecessary to start with “Lemmy” instead of just going with TMBG, but whatevs. Subscribed to John & John.

I love this comic, because “never quit / never surrender” is one of the godamn stoopidest phrases in our culture.

How about: “Take a break, re-tool, gather yourself, ask yourself if this is what you really want, and if so, can our methodology and stress-relief be improved? Well then, well then!”

if it’s once a year. If we did it every night…

Around here (MidWest city), fireworks go off every night for a month before, and then a month after the fourth. And I don’t mean a small amount, either. More like some version of the Vietnam War. It’s nuts.

Basically, most of summer is devoted to fireworks play, with the fourth being a deluxe version of the “fun.”

Oy, now I understand why I wasn’t seeing your latest content!

Hmm, I haven’t hyperventilated in a long time.

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you’re claiming that they’re misusing the anti-CSAM feature to remove comments from the modlog

Right, that was one aspect of that, but at the end of the day?

What ML has clearly done is to fuck with the integrity of the Lemmy-sphere across multiple, fundamental levels, and that’s what I and many others find completely unacceptable, and have of course stated as much.

Seriously, how is it even possible that you’re browsing the FV and haven’t seen this shit…?

Yes, yes-- I get the fact that you’re a ‘self-declared weirdo!’ “Big proponent for killing all cis men! Token Trotskyite!”

You DO understand of course that civilisation is collapsing fast, much of it due to our bloody inactions, is it not…?

Absolutely.
I will make it a special point tomorrow to look up the many, many posts upon that matter made in the last couple days across the FV.

One also wonders what people like you were doing in the meantime, but never fear-- please DO add on with any more requests for such information in the coming days. I will be happy to do the lookups and get back to you. ^^

as far as im aware there is no evidence that anyone has misused this specific admin power

In that case, then congrats for living in your own little delirium, apart from the many, many reports people have made reporting those specific abuses.

Well then, good for you.

Meanwhile, there’s been a legion of solid users here pointing out across the FV that the ML has in fact been abusing its admin powers, or did you think that the whataboutism of CSA would somehow, magically erase that shizzle?

If so, then shame on you.

That’s fine on ‘paper,’ but can you seriously not understand how it’s being shamelessly abused on the Tankie / ML front?

It’s more than just that IMO. It’s breaking the stated aim of open federation by tampering with comments, posts and mod records, which in turn get propagated or de-propagated to connected instances, right?

Yes, you may say that ML is of course free to screw with their own instance, but 1) one instance (particular a significant one like ML) affects other instances, and 2) they’re breaking the spirit of their own software by shamelessly abusing admin powers, in turn helping to normalize that behavior to the Lemmy side of the FV.

What’s the point of leaving oppressive, commercial social media only to run in to the same kinds of abuse of power on a supposedly transparent, user-run, P2P social network?