I certainly can moderate comments; I am the admin of the Mastodon server in question.

What wouldn’t work so well is to host comments on someone else’s Mastodon server, so it’s not a good fit for a low-tech/low-overhead site. There’s definitely a space for something with a lower barrier to entry, but I don’t think it fits well with the nonprofit, community-oriented approach to servers running most of the fediverse. Those users would be best served by a commercial subscription service.

Gitlab is actively working on this.

Is ActivityPub a good fit for chat? Trying to make every kind of interaction fit into a single protocol sounds like a recipe for a bad protocol.

Those sound like good ideas in theory, but your phone’s battery would last about 2 hours if you did this.

The heavy lifting, like tagging the content of millions of videos probably needs to be done somewhere other than the end-user’s mobile device. Some sorting and filtering of text-based metadata on the user’s device to pick what videos to see next is viable though.

There’s already a way to do this using Mastodon and a bit of Javascript. I use that on my flashlight review website and also link the comments to !flashlight@lemmy.world.

It’s not as slick a UX as Disqus of course, and it would be cool if somebody made that.

But try that with the European 50 Hz 240 V

I have. It hurts more.

It’s probably somewhat more dangerous than 110V if the circuit goes from one hand, through the chest, into the other hand. Most shocks involving a plug just go through a finger.

It’s possible to touch the pins with your finger when the plug is partially inserted into the socket. It’s especially possible with child-size fingers.

Many of the other plug designs, like Europlug have half-insulated pins to prevent this.

Probably NEMA 1-15, the ungrounded North American plug. Magic plugs are also quite compact.

You haven’t? I guess most people I know were dumber as kids that you were.

I’m always up for a bit of controversy. I like the basic ungrounded American plug (NEMA 1-15).

It has no safety features. Just about every American has shocked themselves with it once, but very few have done it twice. I like it because it’s compact, and that leads to some conveniences:

• It works great in folding designs for portable power supplies. I’ve seen folding implementations of Europlug and even British plugs, but they’re not as compact.
• It works great for ultra-compact splitters and many-outlet power strips. Yes, you can be dumb and overload these, but we have a whole lot of low-power electronics in the modern world such that it’s not hard to have a dozen devices each pulling less than an Amp. Multi-port USB power supplies are starting to mitigate this a bit.
• It doesn’t have shutters (by default), so it’s easy to plug things in. Every plug type I’ve encountered with shutters takes a lot of force and sometimes binds.

That kind of drama comes up in projects every now and then. If the project’s fundamentals are solid, either some people leave and the project continues, or the project gets forked and the new one becomes dominant.

What issues? F-droid seems to be going strong as fast as I can tell.

A single package not getting frequent updates could mean that package isn’t being actively developed, but sometimes it just means there’s no need five updates.

I’ve found a refurbished Thinkpad one generation out of date to be a great midrange option.

It does take careful research though since there are thousands of possible configurations and often subtle options that make a huge difference. One such option that made my recent purchase of a P14S III challenging was that there are two non-touch 1920x1200 displays, one of which has a crappy color gammut and less brightness.

We could invert the question: why do people wherever you’re contrasting use them more?

Absolutely not.

Dilettante gets used as an insult when someone wants to discredit the position of another for having insufficient dedication, credentials, or experience. People who really know what they’re talking about address positions directly rather than the person who holds them.

Countries have laws both protecting people who host content provided by third parties and imposing certain responsibilities on them when they become aware of illegal content hosted on their servers. Some of them, like Germany’s NetzDG impose specific procedures for reporting (though no Lemmy server is large enough for NetzDG to apply). US laws about child pornography, for example are very specific about removal and reporting requirements, come with a risk of prison, and can include things that are legal other places such as cartoon drawings.

Laws don’t need to specifically address whether the content arrived via a federation mechanism or a user uploading it directly, only what a server owner must do once they’re aware of illegal content on their server.

!flashlight@lemmy.world started strong, but has definitely slowed down a little. !edc@sopuli.xyz (everyday carry pocket dumps) and !knives@sopuli.xyz have slowed down even more. Maybe they’re too consumerish for Lemmy’s culture.

Streaming makes a copy of the video in your browser’s cache, so it’s legal for you to make a local copy to watch unless the server or poster is breaking the law by posting the video. Unless there’s a license accompanying the video that specifically says something about not storing your local copy long-term, it isn’t illegal to do that as well.

When I look at the JSON response for your profile page from lemmy.world in a desktop browser, I see:

• post_count: 32
• post_score: 2674
• comment_count: 1072
• comment_score: 4459

But the standard Lemmy UI doesn’t display those score totals. When I view your profile from Connect, I do see 7133 points. That’s not 8316 like you see because federation is hard.

As I understand it, people can buy ammunition in Switzerland. Here’s a FAQ from a Swiss gun store (in English) saying that ordering ammunition online requires a copy of an ID card and proof of residency.

The store sells .223 Remington ammunition which can be fired from the Sturmgewehr 550 service rifle.