I cry quite easily, so a small sample of films that have made my eyes misty are:

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Bridge to Terabithia
A Monster Calls

I’ve started to doubt the McDonald’s story - I don’t see how anybody could have recognised him, based on the photos that were released. The FBI were given LM’s name on the 5th (as someone who had been reported missing), and they arrested him on the 9th. My conspiracy theory is that I think they found him using means that they don’t want us to know about, and sent a group of ex-cops to McDs, to loudly talk about him until they were overheard by an employee. So it could’ve happened anywhere, really.

There’s a reply in that post from the mod. They locked it because it wasn’t an open-ended question. I imagine that the rule is in place to prevent this community from being filled by DAE-type posts.

Yeah. ActivityPub has a type called ‘Announce’ that’s used to make your followers aware of activity by another account. Mastodon uses it only for ‘boosting’ another user’s content, but Lemmy’s communities use it for everything (‘Andrew has posted this comment’, 'Andrew has Liked this post’s, etc). Most of Lemmy’s activities are ignored by Mastodon, but the Announce of a post or a comment is interpreted as a Boost.

It sort of works as a way to follow a community on Mastodon, but the individual boosting of all comments makes it annoying. I doubt anyone has set up a different account - you should be able to see the details of which actor is doing by clicking on it or hovering your mouse over it.

Anyway, speaking of jokes, have you heard how many MBIN users it takes to screw in a lightbulb?
Answer: 10. 1 to screw in the bulb, and 9 to tell you how great the software is. (I’m just kidding - there aren’t 10 MBIN users, it just seems like there are because it evidently comes with a massive crowbar used to derail every thread to bollock on about it).

Luigi Mangione is the median American voter

They’re confused because they still believe the dominant divide in US politics is liberalism v conservatism. It’s not, and it hasn’t been for some time. Increasingly, even if they lack the exact language to explain it, voters do not identify foremost as Democrats or Republicans, progressives or traditionalists, or even left or right. They identify as pro-system or anti-system.

If an admin bans a local user, they’re banned once, but if they ban a remote user, the way Lemmy currently handles it is to ban them from every community they’ve subscribed to. There’s an Issue about it because it’s a hacky and incomplete solution. As such, the ‘banned 20 times’ thing isn’t something that people should read too much into.

The 4K Blu-ray remux of Andor Season 1 is 230 GB. This new government might be shutting down the internet, but I doubt that they’re monsters, and so surely wouldn’t expect me to re-watch it in any lower quality. Fortunately, I’ve worked out that the Aldanhi arc and the last 2 episodes are 102 GB, so it should be manageable if some recaps are cut.

I assumed that was there because there are some sites (e.g. reuters.com) that make it difficult to automatically grab a thumbnail image to go with the article. So if you’re posting a link to somewhere like there, you’d find a relevant image manually, and use that field so the post you make will be more engaging.

I don’t think it’s for posts that are an image - in that case, the software can just use that to create a thumbnail, so it doesn’t need the extra help.

For the one rogue fuck, my Rogue One fuck would be:

A fair bit of Mastodon content doesn’t fit well on Lemmy. One mundane technical reason is that their posts don’t always split up well into the post title / post body that Lemmy expects. A cultural reason is that Mastodon users have a much higher tolerance for other users promoting things like their patreon than Lemmy users do. Even if the posts split well, and is content that Lemmy would like, bringing in the replies to it opens up a spam vector.

Lemmy let’s you impersonate other users. I used to do that with https://lemmy.world/c/tails@lemmon.website, but stopped because the above-mentioned reasons made it tricky to automate (and because I got bored with it)

Skirt + poncho = double skirt
Denim skirt + denim poncho = double denim double skirt.

Oh wow - I never realised that lemm.ee had got so far behind. That problem seems to be in the past now, and posts will only be missing from there if they’re relying on world to send them.

As the post that Blaze linked mentions, LW is catching back up now (it’s only if the delay gets over 7 days that you need to worry about them being lost)

Nothing really, just a bit of maintenance at their hosting provider: https://lemm.ee/post/48190514

(I got a 503 earlier too)

Hypothetically, sure: the info exists in one place - they’d just have to arrange a way to transfer it.

Votes themselves are a simple activity, but each one can cause a surprising increase in storage requirements (every vote has a user, every user has an instance, every instance has admins, and all these entities might have avatar and banner images associated with them). Most instances are run by one person as a hobby, and paying for DB and image storage seems to be the no. 1 reason for instances folding, so there’s generally a question of how much one instance should be an exact mirror of another one.

You’re correct in assuming that nothing is stuck in a queue.

Compared with other Fediverse platforms, a feature that Lemmy lacks is paginated outboxes. These would allow communities to list all the posts, because other instances could get them a page at a time (e.g. 20 for page 1, then the next 20 for page 2, and so on). Instead, they provide a non-paginated outbox with only the most recent 50 posts. An outbox for comments isn’t really feasible without pagination, which is probably why they don’t provide one at all. For votes, it’s even less practical, and irrespective of that, it would go against the familiar hang-up about votes being private.

So if you’re the first person to join a remote community, then 50 recent posts are brought in, but no older posts, no comments, and no votes. There’s no way to get the old votes. If your instance receives some activity that makes it realise that it’s missing something, then it will resolve it (e.g. it will often fetch an old post if it receives a reply to it, and fetch a comment if it receives a vote for it), but it will start that post or comment at score 0.

If you really wanted to be fully in-sync for comments, then you could script it to use the APIs for the remote and local instance. For the remote instance it would be something like: list the posts oldest to newest (limited by the amount you’re missing); get the ap_id for each one, then login to your instance and ask it to resolve it. Then do the same for the comments in each post. Everything it resolves would be a score 0 though, and it assumes that the author hasn’t deleted themselves in the meantime, or that their instance hasn’t disappeared. Given that, I don’t really see the point, other than trying to a completist about stuff.

(that link needs the ‘https’ part in to work)

The act of making a first post or comment is all that’s required for other instances to become aware of yours. Your site is already in their /instances page and at places like https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/redlemmy.com

From what I can tell re join-lemmy, the list there is just for that site, and it’s fed by the lemmy-stats-crawler (you’ll be able to see it in your nginx logs). There’s a restriction of needing 5+ active users a month though, which it doesn’t look like your site quite meets.

Federation delay from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world:

https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/cdfzs0dwal3pca/federation-health-time-behind?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.ml&var-remote_software=lemmy&from=now-30d&to=now&var-remote_instance=lemmy.world&timezone=browser

(It’s been a pattern of spiking up to almost 2 days before recovering).

It’s a LW problem (that they are aware of), and it’s unrelated to whether a comment has images or not.

I assume this was a song for which they released an acapella version, because I’ve heard it used on Mash-Up albums by the likes of Girl Talk (that’s the only place I’ve heard it, tbh).

Just matrix.org, like some kind of pleb.

I only have an account so I could join in one room, and that’s the server that the room was on, so I decided to keep things simple.