Amazing - I read skimmed through the Wikipedia site for Squatting and tried to search online for it happening other places, but I couldn’t watch a video while commenting so I didnt watch the source.

Fantastic case in point.

Still I struggle to understand how it’s possible.

How the fuck can Swatting be such a common thing in America. I have never heard about it in any other country.

(This is, of course, a rhetorical question. I know the answer is that American police is beyond incompetent.)

Edit: Oops, read comments below

I feel like dark theme is often tricky on different monitors - If the font is too heavy it’ll look awful, if it’s too light it might look bad on low resolution displays. Combined with different colour contrasts on different screens, and it gets really difficult to know what people will end up seeing.

The headline - “MBIN SERVERS” - looks great on my 4K monitor, but slightly less good on a worse one. The same goes for the text stating that “Also view servers on FediDB and Fediverse Observer”, but it’s not so bad for the white text. The hyperlinks, however, might suffer from a lack of contrast with the background (a slightly too dark blue) combined with very thin text on low resolution monitors.

I guess brighter hyperlinks could also benefit the names of instances.

It’s not something I ever noticed myself when using the site, but keeping it in the back of my head while looking at it I can see why some might have some problems with it. :)

!dadvice@lemmy.world is there right next to !bellyexpansion@lemmynsfw.com at [9.6, 38.3]. I guess someone is excited about their wives being pregnant. :)

As other people say, it’s easier to let the plants do the job for us.

That said, check out vertical farming if you’re not familiar with it. It’s a modern approach to farming that very much relies on plants, but dramatically reduces problems such as excessive land use and dependence on pesticides.

This is a point for sure, especially since I assume part of their contribution was that they were supposed to replace not only cycling, but also walking.

Then again, I’m increasingly excited about electric bicycles. They’re not for me while I still have good knees and all, but as soon as I can’t go everywhere I like with pedal force… I’m sure as hell getting an electric bike. I guess it’s still more exercise than a Segway though.

I guess maybe segways could in theory take up less parking space… but I’m not entirely sure. They’re wider, and you need to get out somehow. And they strike me as more awkward than bikes if you should need to lift them.

I feel like it would probably be terrible for your eyes, but I feel ya.

Audio books maybe?

But… Bikes? How does it improve on bikes, other than being much less safe and more expensive?

Crazy futurists could even propose we build cities around bikes… but that would be insane, obviously. 🚙

I hate it so much I’m almost sad it didn’t take off more for just a little while. Would have been fun to get the chance to hate it even more.

I would have loved to see what the world would be like if the internet was only Gemini. The internet is incredible, but I have no doubt it’s more a curse than a blessing at this point.

Going to mastodon.social and searching for 5teverin0@pxlmo.com in the search field, I see posts going back to August 21 just fine from there. So it’s not clear to me what is not working?

Federation of post is not retroactive - if you search up yourself from another instance you should find your profile, but you might not see your old posts. If you follow yourself, all future posts will be federated.

Thanks for the response! I’m sorry to hear that a core contributor vanished like that. Hopefully (s)he’s allright and just needed to delegate time differently. And as long as there’s at least two of you who feel somewhat dedicated to the project, even if you cannot always be active, that’s great. :)

It reminds me of the old proverb that if you want to go fast, walk alone, if you want to go far, walk together. If Mbin can continue at a sustainable pace, where you’re not afraid to take time off when you need it, I have no doubt it can go far. :)

How do you feel about Mbin in that regard? Do you feel like development is in a healthy place, with not too much of a burden on any one person?

I guess similar situations as the one described here could occur, with an inherited code base and all it entails.

Yeah, very fair. I’m lucky enough that the things I use Mastodon for has more or less established communities there.

The federation of comments is a huge headache. Intuitively it makes no sense the way it’s solved - if I go to the comment section, I don’t want a bunch of it to be randomly hidden from me. It’s something that just needs to be solved better, even though we’ll always see slightly different things as not all content is equally welcome everywhere.

I’m happy Lemmy works better for you though! I think it might just be a better format for nerd stuff. I like Mastodon for many things, but this is where I go to embrace nerd stuff. Politics here are more insufferable than at the Mastodon instance I’m on though. ;)

Sad, but mostly awful that the project has gone down in such a messy way. That sounds like a tremendous personal load that was completely uncalled for.

Sounds like… uncomfortable business? :)

More seriously though, couldn’t a.gup.pe help with discoverability? Tag a larger group, and the post is automatically forwarded to a lot of servers and shown to a fair share of users.

But yeah, bring on a smaller fedi server for microblogging has obvious drawbacks that people tend to brush over. It does require more effort to become discovered.

Solarized dark looks great!

It’s a poster design, not a logo. It doesn’t need to be as instantly recognizable. Putting one or three other in the background would make it a lot less visually interesting.

Amazing!

The pace and responsiveness of development in PieFed is unlike anything I’ve seen before. It’s a brilliant platform, thank you so much for developing it!