How do we know that instance will stay afloat though? I see search engines indexing Lemmy already, but they’re all scattered with whatever instance they happened to get in touch with.

It’s like having a discord ‘server’. Nothing gets actually talked about, noteworthy stuffs are hidden beyond layers of clunky mobile UI and everyone’s phone numbers are leaked in the process.

It’s still important for video game preservation, no matter how crappy the games themselves might be.

Piggybacking on this, I tried Fitgirl repack releases and some of them hang up during install when executed through wine or proton. I resorted to installing them from a windows boot and then execute them from linux, but does anyone have a better solution?

Somewhere deep inside Redmond’s vaults, Tay is scheming for her comeback.

Not sure if shadowbanning can work here. Wasting each instance’s limited pool of resources is not what we want to encourage.

Kudos for self-hosting fediverse stuff, man.

We’ve got the perfect global pandemic movie post-credits section.

• Accelerating climate change and also the denial
• Economic recession and increasing wealth gap
• Myopic leadership both in government and corporate, rise of fascism
• Misinformation campaigns, science and history denial becoming fashionable
• Harambe

We’re truly fucked.

It will probably split and congregate around instances focusing on heavy moderation and KYC vs crypto-focused free-for-all ones if they ever gain traction.

A tragedy for the afghan people. Even more so, since there’s a sizeable chunk of their own population supporting them.

I would absolutely use a VM with no internet connection for these, but then all bets are off if those softwares need direct access to GPU, for example. GPU passthrough is a thing, but I haven’t had much luck personally.

I’m worried about the link rot problem when the specific instance used as source goes down.

I put on my trenchcoat and fedora hat.

That will make people cling to their VPN accounts even more, not less.

Please indicate where IE touched you.

There’s also the issue of self-censorship. No way of knowing if any Russian folk interviewed actually agree to what they say.

Redlib and Libredirect are the only thing keeping me sane when I absolutely have to open Reddit.

Shit, I have desktops running with 2200G and 2400G.