TWeaK

If you want lemmy to work well, speak with /u/sunaurus@lemm.ee, he’ll sort you out. Dude is a legend and runs the best instance, IMO, but is always willing to help other instances.

I mean, a jellyfin server is typically full of copyright protected material. I also wouldn’t expect them to notify you in advance, however they should still send some notice when they stop providing the service you’ve paid for.

At least 3 backups, 2 different media, 1 offsite location.

Probably to do with the recent spam wave.

Yeah I know, however when you reply to someone from a notification you just want to reply.

Also, when you move up the context on a Lemmy thread you see each comment and all its other comments. If the comment chain you’re replying on isn’t the top thread, then you get cluttered up with all the others. On reddit, context meant you only saw the comments that directly lead to the comment you were deriving context from. Furthermore, context was derived from the comment URL with a ?context=3 suffix, so you could easily specify how far up the chain you wanted to go.

Lemmy does context differently, but I prefer reddit’s method.

Before the trial happens, it could really go either way, even if the defendant is obviously in the right - there could be some procedural slip up that causes them to lose anyway.

However, a lawyer isn’t going to assume that they will make some slip up, so if it is obviously in the defendant’s favour they will work pro bono. There is still some risk for them, because if they lose they don’t get paid, but they’re confident they’ll win.

Edit: wrote the reply thinking this was a conversation about awarding costs to the defendant, that was a different thread. The first paragraph remains unchanged though.

I wish Lemmy showed you more of the context than just the last reply.

I was thinking more about the occassions where there is no news article whatsoever, but you make a good point also.

Yes they do have to fund their defense to begin with, however there has to be some balance struck. Until the court proceedings are concluded it isn’t known which side is in the right.

I think most countries’ public funding for legal representation is limited to criminal matters, and even then you have to qualify (eg have a very low income or be unemployed). With civil matters, it’s up to you to find a lawyer you can afford, or one who will take it on pro bono.

If the defendent is obviously in the right, then it should be more likely that they can find a lawyer who will work pro bono.

It’s a bigger problem in the States than elsewhere. In the US, awarding legal costs is the exception, not the norm, so someone with a lot of money and access to lawyers can basically intimidate a defendent into avoiding court. In the rest of the world, courts are much more likely to award costs to a defendent who has done nothing wrong - if you file a frivilous lawsuit and lose, you’ll probably have to pay the costs of the person you tried to sue.

This guy’s in Germany, so I think he’d be alright if he clearly won. The issue, however, is that courts aren’t really equipped for handling highly technical cases and often get things wrong.

The thing is, what most people aren’t aware of is the amount of times the Streisand effect doesn’t happen.

Would be nice if the pace of development could be accelerated.

With proper image code:

Well it’s steadily going up actually:

Another interesting factor is comments:

They “contributed to the project”, that doesn’t mean they have any authority over lemmy development, as the top of the post is suggesting. “Contributing to the project” could mean just about anything.

While I wouldn’t completely discount the possibility that they are the same person, this post provides no evidence of that. HOWEVER, this comment suggests they might well be!!

TBF the future lemmy developer isn’t too far off. I’ve been discussing being added to the NLNet grant along with another person, phiresky, with Dessalines and Nutomic.

@TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com you might be interested in that.

No worries. A couple other things:

• /c/community@instance and @community@instance will work for communities.
• /u/user@instance is instance agnostic but will not generate a mention to the user’s inbox.
• [linktext](http://instance/u/user) will link to the user’s instance only, but it sends a mention to them. You can also do this by starting to type @user@instance and selecting the user from the dropdown box (on the website, not necessarily in apps).
• The different apps for lemmy don’t necessarily always work correctly in line with the website, but they’ll catch up.
• Each post is actually primarily hosted at that user’s instance, then federated from there. So if you’re a lemmy.world user and post in a lemmy.ml community, your post will actually post at lemmy.world first and then federate. It isn’t necessarily hosted in the community’s instance. The same is true for every comment - hence why you won’t see comments from users in an instance yours isn’t federated with, even if they are federated with the post’s instance and can comment in the thread.
• You can’t really do anything with posts or comments to jump across instances, as each instance assigns a different number to the same content. Hopefully one day they’ll change it so the url is more like http://instance/post/123456@hostinstance in everywhere but the federated host instance. But it’s all still in early development.

In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.

I found some horrifying comments from this user.

The post then lists comments from /u/cannotsleep420@lemmygrad.ml, however the text over the name is SleeplessOne (without the number on the end). This account is also on lemmygrad, the lemmy devs’ main accounts are on lemmy.ml. Do you have anything to verify that they’re the same person, or that they are another dev? Because I see no “CannotSleep420” mentioned on the github page. The main two are actually /u/dessalines@lemmy.ml and /u/nutomic@lemmy.ml.

Next you’ll be telling me that Hollywood actress Margot Robbie also moderates round these parts.

Edit: They probably are the same person.

FYI, you can make an instance agnostic link just by typing /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml.

The difference here is that these people aren’t really running the show. They’re in charge of the main development branch, but that’s just back end code, and it is (or should be) reviewed by every admin when they use it to implement their instance. Development can be adopted or forked by other people, should politics get in the way.

It’s the morals of your own instance and its admin that are most important, these are the ones synonymous with reddit’s staff. In fact, it’s possible for the instance to put whatever code they want up. It can easily be non-standard to official lemmy, so you really are trusting them rather than the main lemmy devs.

Every post and comment is initially hosted on the user’s local instance. From there, it is federated everywhere else. If you’re on lemmy.ml and post on a community in lemmy.world, then if you click the federated link (multicoloured weird shape icon) it will take you to the lemmy.ml version of the post.

Thus, if your instance is not federated with another, you won’t see any posts or comments from users of that instance.

What’s really annoying is the way that they use a unique ID number for every post and comment - each instance makes its own. So you can’t just change the URL to your instance to find a specific post or comment. That only works at the community level, where the link becomes yourinstance/c/community@theirinstance. What we should have is consistent numbering with the same instance tag, so a lemmy.ml post would be lemmy.ml/post/12345, while others would be lemmy.world/post/12345@lemmy.ml. Lemmy is still very much a work in progress.

I love it when my tape quacks.

FYI it’s duct tape. Duck Tape is a brand that sells a type of duct tape, among other tapes.

I know (I’m British) and the US doesn’t have Autumn. They are the other way around.

In the comic, the US has both, with Autumn in the brief period before Summer ends and Fall starts. The alt text is saying the UK has the two the other way around.