of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

finish reading the comment, theyre not the same

twitter. thats as deep as it goes. like how they try to get people to put hashtags in their titles despite no one using hashtags to find videos. corporations try not to turn everything into a homogeneous blob challenge: impossible.

it's funny because they tried to do this push a few years ago too where everyone new had an @ and they eventually dropped it because it was dumb. i guess whichever exec thought that was a good idea never actually left

idk, im surprised it took this long. there's a huge variety of admin teams with varying degrees of security awareness and it's been over a month since the first big influx of users started. it'll happen again too and probably not before too long

"Vitamin" is basically the 19th century's idea of a sciencey word for "nutrients." I mean heck, half the "vitamin Bs" aren't even related to each other at all

Addressing what Jamie said as well: they won't see the downvote on their instance, but you will see it on yours.

My understanding is that each instance has its own copy of every post, comment, and vote total. You might notice that viewing the same post from lemmy.ml vs lemmy.world, it'll have a different point total, some comments missing, and maybe different comments and posts altogether. This is because when a user interacts with Lemmy, the instance will send out a notification to other instances that the interaction happened--once. If another instance is down or busy and misses the notification, there's no system in place to correct it later. So when you have a situation like now where a massive influx of users is causing the biggest servers to go down constantly, those notifications are constantly missed. And if you send a downvote to a server that has them disabled, that particular server simply won't read the downvote.

Also, the giant flood of posts you're seeing is actually ANOTHER bug that happens as your instance federates with another; look close and you'll see many of them are actually quite old. Refresh the page and those will disappear

Unfortunately not. I made a post about it a few days ago and apparently it's an unintended behavior that will be fixed, it was just never an issue before since there were so few users lol

The other problem with YouTube/twitch alts as opposed to reddit/twitter is that a lot of the creators people like the most actually rely on those platforms to serve ads in order to make a living. That content can't exist on FOSS systems unless they somehow manage to attract advertisers, which seems next to impossible

tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year

On top of it all... What joke? He "misinterpreted" a serious statement...

Because then I have to moderate it :/