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It might have been https://sub.rehab that was mentioned (you can migrate using their Settings page apparently). Their FAQ also mentions alternative sites (mostly just big static lists by the look of it).

Or it could have been an app - Voyager for instance will take a big list of your subscriptions as a MultiReddit and sub you to Communities with the same name.

I'm not upset at downvotes. My comment got plenty of 'em. It's fine.

If the meaning of them is so individual and nebulous, then I'm even more mystified why anyone would hand them out. You dislike something, but so what? What's anyone supposed to do with that information? They can't be interpreted as anything apparently. Lemmy's userbase is too shallow and it's sorting algorithms too unsophisticated for anything to get buried. So it's an action without a goal, a petulant thumbs down that in most cases just leaves someone puzzled as to why it happened at all.

Ha. 'fraid not. Only did for an hour, and I wound up enough people just in that time.

Mature? Like downvoting a post asking why something is being downvoted? Like responding "Because I don't want to" when asked why you don't just block a bot?

There's no way these things are more mature than just doing what we should all be doing: just scrolling past. There's rarely any need for downvotes, and the idea that we're just supposed to guess what you mean by them is ludicrous.

Inferring that info is maybe not as straight-forward as you're assuming.

As for being called out, it was a dick move in response to a dick move. I'm surprised you guys aren't more robust in the face of someone disagreeing with you.

Replaying this now for maybe the third time. It still occasionally surprises me, hearing a line of dialogue I'd never heard before (usually related to crossing rivers tbf)

The warez scene, haha.

(About 31 minutes into episode 7 of Ahsoka)

Hey! Don't steal our memes please - we've only got 5 (2 if you exclude the ones about sand)

Don't worry. I'm not in a position to ban anyone from anything. Sorry if it seemed otherwise - I was just warning a fellow user not to be too casual about lemmy.world's rules. As the community I linked to demonstrated, we can be on other instances, posting to communities on other instances, but if we're banned by LW, no-one on what's easily the biggest instance will see what we're saying.

As for the 'access all content' line, it should probably be 'you can access all content [that your admins allow you access]'.

It all works by every instance copying in communities that their users are interested in, and then every instance merging the results. I commented here, but I never left my server on endlesstalk.org - I commented on endlesstalk.org/c/[email protected]. Similarly, you commented on lemmings.world/c/[email protected] and now we're both seeing the merged result.
This means that, when an instance is copying something, it's free to leave out anything it doesn't like (e.g. stuff from a banned user).
You'll need to copy/paste this URL to see the difference: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] is what LW users see of that community - there's a lot less there than what everyone else sees at [email protected] (which, for you, is lemmings.world/c/[email protected] of course)

I'm surprised lemmy.ca is hosting gifs at all. Many instances are set to always convert them to mp4.

Lemmy doesn't seem set up to handle gifs natively. The thumbnail that's been generated is https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/33ad12d3-70b1-422f-8e17-f96731de7818.gif?format=webp&thumbnail=256, so it looks like it's rendering a GIF animation as a static WEBP image.
The original file still works though - the result of ![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/fc909ca0-7d83-45b6-9d1f-7791cd1b8c2e.gif) is:

If you look at [email protected], you'll see that Connect has pretty decent support for animation (whether they're GIFs, WEBPs or MP4s), although they play a bit slow on my phone.

Posting GIFs is currently tricky:

• Post them to an instance that doesn't convert them to MP4, and Lemmy breaks them (as has happened in your post).
• Post them to an instance that does convert them to MP4, and you lose looping-by-default.
• Post them to an external site (like giphy.com or tenor.com), and it's 50/50 whether Lemmy will try to copy them in, and break them (although it's broken some uploads on [email protected], so the web client and Voyager can't load them, Connect and most other apps can).

You could be banned yes, because it would be https://lemmy.world/u/[email protected] that would be kicked. To see the effect of this, compare [email protected] with lemmy.world's version of it - https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] - (all the posts by banned user [email protected] are missing)