Can confirm that sorting by new comments makes it appear a lot more active. There’s a reason why old forums’ only sorting method was thread bumping.

anything teenagers actually want to do and enjoy doing is self-harm, haven’t you gotten the memo that adults know in 100% of all cases what’s good for them a lot better than they themselves do

(To any reader unironically agreeing with the above paragraph, I suggest reading this webcomic.)

But the real question is, if it becomes independent, will it finally have data?

You can register on an instance with a backend that combines the microblogging fediverse and the threadiverse (afaik: mbin, piefed, friendica), then you can both microblog and post to communities.

great so that means the CCP is stepping down and letting the ROC government back into Beijing to govern a reunified China? Excellent news if true.

This has to do with how copyright laws changed over time, for example there used to be a requirement in the US for works to have a copyright notice, or for copyright to be renewed, so some things that didn’t meet those requirements became public domain earlier than they could have if the copyright holder had cared about all the formalities.

doesn’t look like either mastodon or lemmy, although its structure is similar to lemmy; from the sidebar it appears they are running something called “scored” which I don’t know anything about

I mean you could use pretty much any federated blogging software for such purposes.

The clue what ActivityPub is for is in the name: it is for publishing one’s activities (so that others can subscribe to them). Fiction writing isn’t inherently about publishing one’s activities, the main thing you want to do on such platforms is host the content so others find it, not make sure your subscribers are notified about your activities. So it’s not really clear how ActivityPub fits into that use case, although I suppose you could use it to publish the content.

16 upvotes for calling for blocking websites, wtf has the world come to and wtf happened to “information wants to be free”

Works for me, no idea what you’re seeing or talking about

Why was it previously allowed, one may ask.

Mike Masnick is usually right about most things, but in this case section 230 is just the wrong defense to use. That really is meant for hosting providers, not software providers. Doesn’t mean they will be held liable, or should be, but it has nothing to do with section 230 as I understand it.

I switched to “new comments” and don’t want to go back to anything else. It has only advantages in my mind:

• It gives me a mix of older and very new threads (because new posting also counts as a comment).
• It makes sure different threads are shown to me after a short period of time already, making sure I do not get bored by seeing only things I’ve already seen.
• It reminds me of web forums with thread bumping, which I continue to think were one of the best ways to organize online discussions we’ve ever had.
• It still shows me more upvoted stuff more of the time because many other users sort by sorting methods that take upvotes into account, so such threads also get more comments usually.

One disadvantage is that occasionally I get several-month-old (or even year-old) threads at the top of my feed if someone has the brilliant idea to post in them. Doesn’t happen very much though.

That definitely sounds like a problem. I am not familiar enough with WordPress, is that store not FOSS or are the plugins not or what is going on?

The point of free software is that it doesn’t have owners and you (individually or collectively) can just create an “alternative” yourself by forking it if you disagree with anything its maintainers do.

me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana

You mostly understood it right.

I think of Mastodon/Twitter as essentially server-side RSS readers: you follow the sources you want to read, then are notified when they are posting something. If you don’t already have any followers, there is little point in posting anything there. The forum-like structure of Lemmy is a lot more suited for ordinary people to discuss topics they are interested in.

For Python definitely PyCharm.

In some countries yes, in others no. Apparently Argentina and Italy both allow dual citizenship (i.e. he has not given up Argentine citizenship) and Argentina allows dual citizens to be president.

If he were a member of parliament in Australia, this wouldn’t be possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_44_of_the_Constitution_of_Australia#(i)_Allegiance_to_a_foreign_power

I remember that RMS’s position is that if someone (!) can change it (eg there is an “update firmware” button), it is a computer and should run free software. If no one can ever change it, it is a circuit. I think that makes some sense.