I didn’t know about it until I stumbled across that issue. After playing around with it, it is a possible solution but I think we would need the lemmit admins to make that change in order for it to work.

What I’ve learned:

• right now it can be toggled by admins with a CLI command, after Lemmy v1 it will be known as unlisted and it will become a part of the main community visibility settings (public, unlisted, localonlypublic, localonlyprivate, private): https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/db_schema_file/src/enums.rs#L130
• when it is enabled, only users that are subscribed and logged in can see the posts. For everyone else, you can only see the community info and post contents if you get a direct link to it

Since it is a property of the community, trying to override it on our end might lead to federation issues because of the ambiguity.

I’d like to second recursive_recursion, your feedback is still just as appreciated :)

I will test out the hiding option and see if I can come up with a compromise that people will agree with. The general sentiment in this thread seems to be that we should not simply refederate.

It seems Neetu got carried away by his emotions way too early because the final counting at the end of the result day revealed that he managed to get a total of 856 votes.

Poor guy, glad he got a pleasant surprise after 😄

What do you mean by that?

If we did this, you would be able to block the whole instance at once. See the blocks tab on: https://lemmy.ca/settings

I will note that since that previous discussion, Lemmy has improved the functionality that lets an individual user block entire instances. So users that don’t want to see this content can block everything by adding lemmit.online to the block list in the user settings.

It might also be possible for us to hide the communities from public feeds, so only subscribed users will see the communities and associated content. We need to explore that some more: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2943#issuecomment-1581485335

• EDIT: I’ve looked into it some more, tldr it might work if lemmit admins make the change on their end: https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850/24859618

I do agree with this reasoning

can use lemmy.ca as my main site with links off to reddit on occassion I don’t need to use reddit anymore to browse but just drop in for a specific post of interest.

When users are migrating off of old social media platforms, letting them see everything from one app reduces a lot of friction. Especially with Reddit taking steps to keep users locked in to their app (ex. Blocking logged out users, limiting old.reddit.com, killing the RSS feeds).

We’ve seen a lot of “mirror content from elsewhere” sites, and lemmit.online was one of the better organized cases. Every post makes it very clear that the post is a mirror / archive, so no one should mistake the bot for a real user looking for help. For example: https://lemmit.online/post/8699035

In higher education, some schools have a chain of escalation, and usually things usually don’t get to the point of actually doing a “trial” (although that does happen some times)

• students are innocent until the instructor suspects something
• instructors can implement the penalty that they see as appropriate, but the student can appeal to a higher authority if they think it is not appropriate (department, dean, etc)

Even in civil justice systems, guilty until proven innocent doesn’t mean that someone faces no restrictions until guilt can be proven. When two parties disagree, they will try to solve it themselves while the court remains an option if that doesn’t work out.

Our school actually publishes summaries of the incidents, if anyone is curious what students are getting up to these days: https://universitycounsel.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/media-uploads/files/SD 2024-2025.pdf

The Flintstones ones are very memorable, I wonder if the marketing was helped by the fact that the vitamins look like rocks 😄

That way when they are exposed to the air and begin to discolor (which is harmless from what I understand), it doesn’t become unpalatable to children

Thanks, I didn’t know about them before today and this is probably why

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_cannon

There is no evidence in favor of the effectiveness of these devices. A 2006 review by Jon Wieringa and Iwan Holleman in the journal Meteorologische Zeitschrift summarized a variety of negative and inconclusive scientific measurements, concluding “the use of cannons or explosive rockets is a waste of money and effort”.[7]

There is also reason to doubt the efficacy of hail cannons from a theoretical perspective.[8] For example, thunder is a much more powerful sonic wave, and is usually found in the same storms that generate hail, yet it does not seem to disturb the growth of hailstones. Similarly, hail cannons are placed at ground level, while hail formation occurs at altitudes above 10,000 meters; a device with an effective range of 500 meters, above, would be unlikely to have an impact at an elevation 20 times higher.[9][10][11] Charles Knight, a cloud physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said in a July 10, 2008, newspaper article that “I don’t find anyone in the scientific community who would validate hail cannons, but there are believers in all sorts of things. It would be very hard to prove they don’t work, weather being as unpredictable as it is.”

This feels like a time-traveller changing history scenario. I wonder what the original intent was

BERLIN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air, potentially preventing an ‌attack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and cargo logistics hub, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.

The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it ​in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.

The drone, which prosecutors said was equipped ​with professional explosives and a detonator, then crashed nearby, Seif, from the governing conservative CDU ⁠party, told journalists.

Personally, when I’m reading an article, I skim past the parts that explain climate change, unless it has some new bit of information (ex. updates to historical trends). It’s not because I doubt climate change, but because I’m pretty familiar with the core points already.

I think it is helpful to talk about it in longer articles where you have room to dive into the topic, and put the current topic into a relevant wider context. However, I don’t think we should require it for the sake of mentioning it. It’s not effective at changing minds when its done like that.

I agree that the last article should have included the wider context. I would also be concerned if there is a growing pattern of not mentioning it when it needs to be. On this last point, while it’s more difficult, I would prefer if they analyzed sentiment and phrasing rather than counting mentions.

To those downvoting, there are other sources confirming that a drone did hit the beach, whether intentional / accidental / intercepted; by a state or individual

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7kmnyrdn7o

https://globalnews.ca/news/12007464/ukraine-russia-strikes-beach-town-drone/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-beach-b3026666.html

Out of curiosity, why doesn’t the tag go with the cat? It looks like it could fit on a collar.

Wouldn’t it be easier for the person or clinic to keep paper records instead?

Added more context to the title

What a scrungy otter 😄

Thank you for the tip, I’ll try to remember that one

They would disappear so fast, especially at a summer picnic

I didn’t realize that Ruby Tuesdays was a chain restaurant, so that’s probably the reason it’s a shitpost

It’s still wholesome though. Maybe that particular Ruby Tuesdays has an excellent team. Or maybe they like spreading good vibes and every review is like that 😄

The lines don’t even map to the legend properly, they have no excuses.

There are people who use and prefer Bing

🙂‍↕️

I looked for a photo of a sea otter with fruit, but all I got was AI slop. So here is one enjoying some crunchy