I understand your sentiment, but you do realize that in the end someone has to pay to keep that space running, right?

Well exposure to different accents can make you understand these kind of things.

have done so

Have nice holidays!

The Lemmy update notes in June said something about improved interoperability with WordPress though

Hey @[email protected] quick question: how would I go trying to get this Wordpress blog to show up in lemmy as a community? Are we able to fetch like that yet? Thanks!

Oh you could absolutely meme about the protocol itself and the way it is implemented. lots of potential there.

The statistics thing is a downside of how Mastodon implements ActivityPub.

Two possibilites:

1. I think you can simply hide the counts if it irritates you.

2. You can install Fedifetcher to pull in missing interactions to your local server: https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher

Watching it wouldnt help you in this case since… artistic choices in adapting it lol

I’m not sure the comparison to suicide holds up. I could just as easily compare it with migration where it is absolutely true that people will find a way to migrate even if you take away the easier methods. It’s simply completely different things.

Evolving ActivityPub is not easy, any additions to the protocol take a lot of time and discussions between the various implementers.

Thats probably a complete nonstarter in a federated network. The metadata needs to be sent via Activitypub, ergo it has to be public.

I see that this account has a few topics it posts on. Now, that alone doesn’t mean anything. Lots of lemmy users have their 3, 4 topics they are interested in and nothing more. Maybe they are an enthusiastic green party voter.

But that amount of posts in such a short timespan smells like a bot account.

People have been using display names to troll or confuse people, so I like that boost shows usernames instead of display names.

But if it was implemented as an optional displaying feature, I’d not be against it.

Can open it completely fine in Boost

Boost has a very easy-to-handle implementation of crossposting

Me, a non-american, trying to understand the point of this post/joke and being completely lost

Now the question is whether Lou Bega looked at English names to use in the song or German ones :D

But they do sound like he might have used popular German names at the time and simply converted them to the English versions imo

Bratislava instead of Pressburg, Ljubljana instead of Laibach, Zagreb instead of Agram.

Lwiw/Lemberg or Brno/Brünn is probably both used.

Prag and Warschau as well as Krakau are firmly used instead of the local ones.

In German in recent decades it’s fashionable/expected to pronounce central European cities the way the inhabitants do. Probably due to the wars and the ethnic transformations…

Yeah. With the “hide post” and image changes done by the new app version (thanks! 🥳🫡) the only change not in yet are the new user settings for displaying votes, I think. From the Lemmy 0.19.4 release notes:

You can specify which of the following vote data you’d like to see (or hide): Upvotes, Downvotes, Score, Upvote Percentage, or none of the above. The default (based on user feedback) is showing the upvotes + downvotes.

App developers will need to update their apps to support this setting.