Man the particle effects of that game were unreal.

Which safety regs? I mean, specifically.

An average U.K. citizen emits 5 tonnes. Get in gear Americans!!

Have you considered a feature like “sibling community”?

What I mean is, for example, car community on server 1 marks itself as a sibling community to a car community on server 2. Similarly server 2 marks itself as a sibling community to server 1, ie it is two-way.

When communities have been linked bi-directionally, any post and comment are shared between the two sibling communities.

This would allow bigger communities to form out of smaller communities, thereby preventing discussions from being fragmented and showing the true size of Lemmy, across servers.

It’s swinging, agreed!

What’s his mastodon handle? Didn’t know he was active.

This is the answer. The age of free money is over and now we are seeing the effect; rampant inflation and high interest rates. The chickens come home to roost, always.

As a result, the burn rate and runway is starting to be factors in all businesses that aren’t making a profit.

Ubuntu Server for my home-lab. Fedora for my workstation (dual-booted with Windows, as work requires Windows or Mac, and Microsoft Flight Simulator only runs on Windows.

We should definitely not war on this - all linux is good linux.

Yes, of course you do :) And next week, you’ll be using NixOS :)

I think arguing that the “fediverse would be less confusing if it wasn’t federated” is like saying “pools would feel less cold if there wasn’t water in them”.

The federation IS the nature of a federated system.

That said, I agree that there is a lot of usability work ahead of federated link aggregators. On, say, Mastodon, most people’s posts are unique (because they are speaking as themselves). On a link aggregator, many people will submit the same link across many instances, so there’s repetition.

I suspect amalgamation will need to be developed to make link aggregators simpler - and quite quickly as I’m definitely feeling the energy drain away from lemmy/kbin again and that largely due to factors OP mentioned. You can achieve this in a couple of ways:

• Client intelligence - if multiple instances have a post with the same link, then merge the the links/conversations on the client end.
• Community federation (instead of server federation), i.e. create merges between communities on both instances, so any topic posted on one server’s community (https://kbin.social/m/science) also gets posted to the federated server’s community (https://beehaw.org/c/science).

Both effectively merge communities across servers, either at submission or at viewing time.

Yup, I totally get that if you decide to post crap on somebody else’s instance, you are “spilling over” and might get defederated.

But I was pondering a different question in my initial message: If I decide to create my own instance, onto which I allow no-one else to create an account, and I’m nice individual with no desire for racism, genderism or any other tendency for -isms, how does my federating with racism-instance.social, on my local instance, spill over to other instances that I also federate with?

I’m confused. If you run your own instance, allowing no new accounts, can’t you federate with whomever you want, without anything spilling over to other instances? Maybe I don’t understand how federation works if that’s the case…