Maybe. I don't speak Dutch, though
lemmy.world prevented their users subscribing to [email protected]. They didn't properly announce it until much later.
'Piracy' is the biggest Community on Lemmy. The meme is asking: was the decision because piracy is often illegal, or was it because they're worried about the competition?
Blatantly.
Not the person you asked, but I think the post they mean is this one
The Ukraine stuff is at the bottom. It says the statement is from their 'news crew' - if this means the mods of their News community, then they're not the same people as the admins, but it is an admin quoting them, I suppose.
(I've no agenda either way)
Well, personally I use IRC to steal media, but I realise that's not why you're asking.
I suppose the reason people might use it for chat is that it's been around a long time, so there's clients (with endless plugins) that do exactly what people want, and it's all simple, text-based often unencrypted stuff, so it's easy to write bots for (that might notify you of something, for example)
It's happened to me before. I don't know why you sometimes get comment and upvote data, and sometimes you don't (it's not because of me being the first subscriber on my instance). When it's happened, I didn't get the old data, but I did start receiving stuff from the date I joined, so if you can see this comment on your instance's copy, then that's something at least.
Woah, meta-drama is the best drama.
Maybe this'll slow down all the 'how do I block an instance?' posts I keep seeing (although realistically, not).
A snippet I found interesting:
among all users that have been banned on lemm.ee for bigotry, the majority were actually not users from other instances, and in fact people with lemm.ee accounts. If we judge any larger instance only by bigoted posts that some of its users make, then we might as well declare all instances as cesspools and close down Lemmy completely
Perhaps. It maybe guards against assumptions that English should be a default language, and that there are implicit rules that everyone should be using it on the Internet. Tagging a comment as 'English' might seem a bit redundant, but it normalises the idea of commenting in other languages.
Also, it provides a mechanism to hide posts from you that you wouldn't understand (although it's probably endless debatable about whether such posts should be hidden)
More important than all of this though, is that I saw an untagged comment the other day, written in Hebrew, and if they'd tagged it and I'd not seen it, I wouldn't have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to translate it from Star Wars Aurebesh.
French Lemmy is doing well. It's good to see people use Lemmy to build Communities and post in their own language.
I'm not sure that allowing 'unspecified' as a language was ever a good idea though. It means people can use that, post in whatever language they want, and mods have to take extra steps to confirm it's not the most incendiary thing ever. Also, for instances like jlai.lu, it means some posts are visible, some aren't, and it makes it harder to deduce why. I assume it exists because if you're building an app or a frontend, language support is one of those boring things that gets added later.
(I wrote this listening to "Ecco the Dolphin Defender of the Future Music: Dolphin's Intrigue" from [email protected] - it's oddly terrifying)
It's interesting that all the replies (so far) are to you, rather than OP, because the behaviour of Lemmy is more interesting than just answering 'No' about their original query. So you could nuke everything in this post if your wanted to.
The 'obvious trade-off' part doesn't acknowledge how much of social media engagement is driven by the urge to correct someone. So I think it's something to be mindful of: if you say something wrong, and someone corrects you, then your choices should be: leave it be; strikethrough your text; or edit it to literally say "[removed]", which are all better options than deleting it.
To give an example - from when I commented on an eerie Terrible Real Estate Photo with a oddly-placed chair in it:
The replies to me - that it's an optical illusion, and that the sockets are part of building regs, have value on their own, and shouldn't disappear just because I might get embarrassed by my comment.
FWIW, I'm on endlesstalk.org and can subscribe to [email protected] without any issues. It might be something else, (like an app or a front-end) that's preventing you.