Deebster

Ok, so Lemmy doesn't cause the same amount of duplication, but I'd still argue that dedupe is valuable: it saves on hosting costs (your costs, in this case) and users will get a small advantage in having slightly higher cache hits.

Yes, for example go to https://infosec.exchange/explore

I see the top post as https://infosec.exchange/@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social/113433063621462027 and the image is https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/cache/media_attachments/files/113/433/063/582/671/258/original/71da3801e4e4f08c.png

The link is to the original on https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/433/062/676/773/993/original/f828afef5cc7ed1c.png but when you click image the javascript loads a modal with the local cached version (same image as the thumbnail that infosec.exchange loads.

There's lots of different codebases across the fediverse so perhaps some hotlink, but local copies is the default.

I think the major advantage is the deduplication - when an image goes viral across Mastodon (or Lemmy) it's currently stored hundreds or thousands of times, each with its own cost. Do you dedupe (for either your customers' benefit or your own)?

The botsin.space Mastodon server shutting down is sad news, it's a pretty important server and if you didn't like bots it was handy that you could just block one server and block loads of them at once.

That makes me want to see if an old blog is still posting... Overheard on the Tube, Overheard in London, something like that...

I just woke up and this confused me

Perhaps if your eyes are on the forehead and mouth. It's more like a shadow effect.

The Indian guy one is brilliant.

leaving Mastodon out to try

While it's clear what's meant from the context, I've never heard this idiom. Do you mean "hanging Mastodon out to dry"?

Drop in the bucket sounds weird to me too, but a quick check shows that it's the US version of drop in the ocean.

This is some weird throwback. Back when Lemmy was using web sockets (before Reddit blocked third-party apps) there was a bug where a page would update with different content, but replies would go to the original post (iirc), but it was fixed ages ago.

It took me a bit to recognise that as describing "effete". I don't think you found the best definition - the main way it's used today is affected, overrefined, and effeminate.

Where exactly did Hashem define the boundaries, and are we obligated to conquer those areas?

Yikes.