Thing is that at the time where people were looking for answers in the sky rather than in science, the birth of the messiah was the best possible starting point they could think of. And it took many centuries to get over it (with quite a few still being stuck in the past), so it’s really hard to collectively move on to something better. And at this point I’m not even sure “better” wouldn’t be anything but simply different for the sake of being different.

So? The idea of the fediverse is that you can have plenty of identical communities if you don’t agree with the other/main one.

Yeah no idea why. Would be trivial to add it to the context menu where you can block the user, hide post etc.

I think the web front-end doesn’t, but most clients do. No idea why they are making a feature available through the api that they don’t use themselves, but that’s what it is.

My client of choice is Sync, but really most of them do the trick.

Really? I don’t mind it as a substitute for baking, but for eating on bread or using it to fry something I don’t think it comes even close to the flavor you get from real butter.

It’s a synthetic saturated fat, so basically a synthetic margarine. Butter is made from milk. So the headline should read “[…] makes ‘margarine’ out of water and CO2”, but everybody hates margarine, so I get why they chose butter instead.

Yeah I can see why. Thanks for the comment, always happy to populate my blocklist and improve the user experience on Lemmy!

You can easily moderate communities on remote instances, all you need to do is leave a comment there, and then the existing moderator has a “make moderator” in the context menu below your username.

This can’t currently be done through any app, only in the web front-end.

In case the community is de facto unmoderated, you’d have to contact the admins of the instance. Or alternatively, create a community with the same name on your home instance and leave a comment in that community informing them and hope some will follow.

Several instances are fully choked up with federating content, some have weeks of backlog to overcome. Self hosted personal instances are probably all the way on the bottom of the priority list…

It’s ripe for a remake maybe. Without the lizard clown and the whole podracing quest line, it made for an alright short film that could be extended to a feature length movie.

Feddit has had a ton of outages recently, there were a bunch of admin posts over there every once in a while when they are up again. I’m not quite sure how the 99% are calculated, maybe most of that is historic availability and currently they are just fucked.

There’s https://status.feddit.de, but even that was unavailable last week.

The link doesn’t seem to work. Did you include the instance?

It’s not private at all. In fact you can download everybody’s private messages.

Gar keine? War halt das Gerät, dass ich zuhause hatte. Und bevor ich mich dann stückweise hochteste, hab ich halt direkt was ordentliches gekauft.

A heavily curated blocklist for google news. I’ve got 220 “news” outlets removed, so that I basically just get something from about 20 remaining sources displayed.

I don’t really follow individual authors or content producers for news anymore, sooner or later they all go downhill in quality.

One good pillow is really all it takes for me. I swear by duck feathers.

I can’t deal with more than one.

They’ll probably call it science fiction and move on. Why would a VR scene be any more real or thought provoking than playing resident evil?

Brave? Please educate yourself and stop using that piece of garbage.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/how-to-spell-volodymyr-zelenskyy/index.html