This smells like propaganda. It’s on a random “news” blog with no information about the organization. There isn’t even a name in the article’s byline, only “News Desk.” The article itself is lazy and biased, simply parroting taking points from a nationalist conservative think tank with a clear political agenda.
Thanks for the info! I didn’t know any apps could do that.
Using a browser (not a phone app) go to the instance’s main page and look for the Communities button. That will give you a list of communities. Filtering by Local lists all the communities on that instance.
Here are some examples:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/communities
https://sh.itjust.works/communities
That FediDB stats page is confusing. It isn’t clear whether they only count instances that have joined Fedipact, or also include instances that have blocked Threads without joining Fedipact. A quick glance at the list suggests the latter. But in that case, there are a bunch of instances missing from the list.
The list on the Fedipact site is a better source:
https://fedipact.veganism.social/
As for admins versus users, here on sh.itjust.works we held a vote among our users. The result was overwhelming: 78% of users voted to preemptively block Threads.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/11308397
(Edit to fix some awkward phrasing.)
three-month probationary basis
Stating this indicates they will never give you an ounce of trust, nor the benefit of the doubt in any situation.
It’s the same way you know the things outside your window are real. You look at the light coming to you from that object and make inferences as best you can. As long as new observations and inferences line up with old observations and inferences, then you can be reasonably confident that your growing model of the outside world is accurate. When something doesn’t add up then you revise your model and keep iterating with new observations.
There’s no difference whether the object appears to be within our solar system or far outside it. We see something and we interpret what we can from the available observations. Occasionally, if something is close enough and interesting enough, we send a robot to orbit the thing or maybe land on it and gather better observations, like how Rosetta/Philae visited a passing comet.
By “or anything” do you mean no captcha or application as well? Because lemmy.ml and reddthat.com both make use of those.
Having totally open sign-ups is risky, as most instances learned the hard way last summer.
I was talking with my high school girlfriend about future career ideas and she mentioned one that made me think, “Huh, I never thought about that.” So I decided to read about it at the school library during lunch one day.
I can directly tie my college degree, all the places I’ve lived, most of my friends, half the countries I’ve traveled to, and meeting my spouse all back to that one moment.
I only know about the league from reading the ESPN article a while back. But what the hell, I may as well pick a team. As of right now I’m a Galgos fan since that’s the team whose hometown I have been closest to.
Mexico has a league (LFA). Check out their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@lfaprofesionalmx
ESPN profiled the league in an article last year: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35881608/how-mexico-pro-football-league-building-brand-established-players-north-border
Regular CDs and DVDs are read-only. You cannot change the data on them in normal use.
You “rip” the disc by reading the data off the disc and writing it to some other media.
There are rewritable (CD-RW, DVD-RW) discs available. You can delete the data from these discs, but it’s not something you’re going to do accidentally.
“Resistor” usually implies a device with a fixed resistance value. A rheostat is a device with variable resistance. The two terms are not synonymous.
As for condenser and capacitor, Wikipedia has an interesting tidbit:
Early capacitors were known as condensers, a term that is still occasionally used today, particularly in high power applications, such as automotive systems. The term was first used for this purpose by Alessandro Volta in 1782, with reference to the device’s ability to store a higher density of electric charge than was possible with an isolated conductor. The term became deprecated because of the ambiguous meaning of steam condenser, with capacitor becoming the recommended term in the UK from 1926, while the change occurred considerably later in the United States.
There are certainly lots of film adaptations. I can think of two off the top of my head: Ten Things I Hate About You is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, and Disney’s The Lion King is straight Hamlet.
I’m surprised that I can’t easily find novelizations on Google. They must exist. If not, then that seems like a great opportunity.
The buyer pays the taxes and shipping on top of the item’s price. eBay is pretty good at estimating the shipping costs. As the other commentor said, eBay’s fees are about 10% and are paid by the seller.
I still use Craigslist, but only for items I just want gone. Like, “This thing is free and sitting out on the curb. First one here gets it.” I’ve given up on actually buying or selling there. Too many flaky people who don’t know how to communicate or fail to show up at the agreed time and place.
eBay is my long-standing go-to for buying/selling used things that have actual value. I’ve been screwed twice in 20 years. Both times it was a seller who took my money and never shipped my item. When I sell things, the buyers have always been great.
I avoid Facebook Marketplace, though I hear it’s the popular spot now.
The biggest questions are where and why. You have a huge country to explore, but what makes any one town stand out as a desirable destination? Within any region or state you can find great places and crummy places, often right next to each other, so you really need to think about what you are looking for and what you want to avoid. Consider taking a long weekend to visit and explore a prospective area before you commit to it.
It’s interesting that Mastodon instances are trending in the opposite direction of Lemmy instances. Most are staying federated with Threads. I wonder if that’s simply indicative of the strong anti-corporate culture on Lemmy, or if there’s more to it.
Meta doesn’t need to bother with back-channel influence peddling of existing instances. If Meta simply opened its own Lemmy instance it would immediately be the largest Lemmy instance by orders of magnitude.
Meanwhile I’m over on the riding lawnmowers. Vroom vroom!
This completely nails it. Trump’s lack of a filter and eagerness to pick fights makes him look like a fearless champion for his followers. He isn’t going to pull punches or compromise with anyone.
A very conservative relative of mine likened supporting Trump to hiring a sleazy but effective lawyer: his personality and methods are irrelevant; you hired him to achieve specific results and the only thing that matters is his ability to achieve those results. If it makes the opposition scream then that’s just added entertainment.