Installed, it probably is if it works in Brave… it might not be set up right in LibreWolf though.

happens occasionally, but not only “lately”, I have been using it for many years and it does (rarely, but occasionally) cause performance drops, yes

Good. The Internet was always supposed to be an opportunity to expand the overton window. It’s incredible how much we’ve been allowing tech companies to be censors in the first place, anything that undoes this development is good.

What policy change? I don’t speak vague.

The fediverse is somewhat inherently a low-trust environment. Centralized social media (including traditional web forums) has only one database of users, so its administrators are able to keep track of similarities (in geolocation, email addresses, style even of deleted posts, etc.). Here every instance has its own database of users; if you register on another instance, it will be very difficult for anyone to figure out you’re the same person.

The fediverse is also still obscure enough that mostly it’s still a relatively high-quality place and this has mostly not been a real problem. You should join an instance, and communities, that moderate to give you an enjoyable experience. What that means varies according to person; I don’t mind the things you list very much, but am very glad I have not gotten any messages from fediverse chick Nicole in a while by now.

On a German QWERTZ keyboard too, μ is the only Greek letter you can easily type (altgr+m) and I’m pretty sure this is because of micro units.

Idk but if you’re just looking for the repo I think this is it: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

I may have found one (coincidentally a few minutes after seeing this thread): https://discuss.tchncs.de/modlog?userId=20528183

no, I agree with the above user that it would be better to federate images too, for at least the following reasons:

• redundancy: see the OP
• privacy reasons: images loaded from other instances inform the other instance that one is viewing those images, do you trust all of them?
• censorship reasons: some lemmy instances are blocked in my workplace and I can never look at images from them when browsing at work; others may be blocked in entire countries

If I’m not mistaken, Mastodon already does federate images to other instances, so it isn’t unheard of.

this is your brain on it being ok for governments to regulate the Internet :(

exactly, OSM is meant to be based on original surveys rather than external sources, and something like “knowledge” or “local knowledge” is a perfectly fine thing to indicate as a source if you mean “I’m familiar with the area and am very confident that my changes are correct although I have not specifically surveyed it just to make these changes”.

I know that instance had a policy of trying not to defederate from anything (unless very necessary). Is there another instance like this that will not be shutting down?

True if these are installed, but if I’m on a server’s command line they probably aren’t.

I think that instance is defederated by some instances? Check that first.

Any given instance (A) knows about all communities that have at least one subscriber on A. Maybe it doesn’t have any subscribers on the instance you’re trying to see it from yet, in which case try subscribing to it by searching for its exact name.

OK I’ll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?

I mainly code Java with IntelliJ.

• it doesn’t AFAIK have an integrated browser or if it does I have never encountered it ❌
• I have not seen it crash a lot and certainly not for the stated reason ❌
• if autocomplete isn’t working, that is a sign something about the build process isn’t set up right, so other things won’t work either ❔
• basic settings being buried deep in the menus is definitely a thing ✅
• if it underlines something, that has always been an error, I think it calls a real Java compiler for this ❌
• freezing at critical moments can occasionally be a thing ✅

That is true. I remember around that time wishing the Internet were more popular among the general public and wishing that would turn everyone nerdy. The first part has happened, the second not.

Don’t forget that 20 years ago, no kids had social media

What does the word “social media” even mean?

Because I was definitely on web forums in 2005. I was a preteen back then.

No, they are different pieces of software connected to different databases. They are run by the same company, but my understanding is Instagram is mostly about photos while Facebook has a wider variety of purposes (none of it it serves very well), eg microblogging, discussion groups, company pages, and others too.

Cookies don’t, but cookies are part of an IP packet which does. So yes, your scenario is possible if the website you visited first stored which IP addresses that cookie has previously been used with.