this trip is for my older brother to go pursue marriage plans… why the fuck would I tag along?

you’re designated wingman /s

turns out that normal people don’t want to be around places unmoderated and unmoderable by design, and instead it’s a magnet for nazis, pedos, nazi pedos and cryptobros, but i repeat myself

nostr is packed with cryptobros, other scammers, and worse

it’s not a twenty year old paper, it’s a twenty two year old preprint which has all the reliability of a blog post. in 22 years, you can get born, complete all education bachelors degree, start masters degree and write a real paper that would be accepted in a real physics journal. the reason it’s not accepted for all these years is it is packed full of crackpot nonsense. it cites Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons ffs

you’re off by something like 15-18 orders of magnitude

op: lemmy is so intolerant against my views!

insert untitled goose with a knife chasing op: what views, fucker?

it’s not always like this, but it happens so often i’m not surprised

Yeah and it’s a good signal about what each instance is like, and where to move to

it’s giving a chatbot, your pfp is genai slop, and by now i think you’ve been reliably informed that fedi in general is generally anti-ai. there is a couple of very good reasons why things are this way. if you don’t like this, you are free to fuck off to linkedin, lobsters, hn or some other corporate hellhole

very few instances have it enabled. calculating it from non-home instance is a bit pointless because heavily downvoted stuff tends to be moderated out and therefore inaccessible

if you mean downvotes in general, i think that’s a very good thing, because when you disagree with something, you can just downvote and move on, and when downvotes are out, it’s a shield for trolls and assholes, and additionally when disagreeing you feel compelled to comment instead and end up like hexbear

ferrets are already domesticated, but i think that having more of/some other domesticated weasel would be neat. imagine pet stoat, or mink, or perhaps wolverine

cheetahs were tamed by ancient egyptians, and even today you can find some random gulf sheikh with pet cheetah. the problem with domestication is that they’re very hard to breed in captivity

last time i’ve checked yes it’s gone as default, but it’s still an option. lemmy devs openly stated that anyone can do whatever they want on their own instances and they can’t influence it (except that for the longest time they’ve controlled the largest instance, not anymore of course)

lemmy is a piece of opinionated foss software that attempts to be an alternative to reddit, coded by a tankie

kbin is a piece of opinionated foss software that attempts to be an alternative to reddit digg, coded by a gun nut and abandoned. mbin is a continuation

piefed is a piece of opinionated foss software that attempts to be an alternative to reddit, coded by a control freak with (formerly) hard-coded questionable moderation

there’s a couple of others like misskey/sharkey. all of them are broken and wonderful. piefed seems to be more feature-rich. by way of miracle, somehow these are interoperable with each other and in more broken way, with mastodon. i heard there lie horrors within lemmy codebase, and updating it is major pain. these all attempt to do slightly different things and so features provided by each are different (kbi/mbin has separate upvote and boost, and who up/downvoted/boosted is always visible to public, all of that is always technically public, but hidden in lemmy)

not sure about your local critters, but red foxes also have vocalizations that scare people sometimes

e: if there are lynxes around then maybe foxes aren’t, because these two compete heavily

there’s indigo and another plant that grows in europe and also makes indigo but less, so you can just farm this thing, unlike purple dye that requires tons of work, and depending on period it was used by commoners (before 1200 or so, in western europe)

it’s a bit funny to look at this today, but woad (that euro indigo) trade was a big deal, it got protected by tariffs and blockades and diplomacy, and all for nothing, ultimately both woad and indigo farming was completely destroyed by synthetic indigo production. indigo wasn’t first/easiest dye to make, but it’s far from the most complex thing you can cook, even in 1900s. prussian blue is much cheaper than synthetic indigo anyway

blue leds may fuck up your circadian rhytm but won’t give you ballsack cancer (probably)

i heard it’s because leds get brighter per mA but circuits don’t get updated and leds are fed the same current as 5, 10 years ago

there is an ukrainian soldier who shared footage from his raids and became sort of internet nanocelebrity on reddit because of it. at one point somebody made anime girl character based on him, and asked about opinion he said something to the effect of “i feel secure enough in my masculinity to jack off to this”

iirc there was a state backed bot farm on mastodon, some might have crossed over

there’s a couple of repost bots, but these are pretty obvious. you can always block them

for liquids there’s aluminum or glass