My takeaway from this article is that, as it turns out, California has laws banning the consumption of equine meat. Man, what the hell? Horse is delicious and donkey is arguably even better. How is that any different than eating beef, sheep and so on?
Where political compass?
Also, you should put the link to the image in the "url" field rather than the "body", this way no one can see it while scrolling
Are these problems recent? We're on the most recent version of Lemmy, while programming.dev is still on 0.18.5. It's possible that the app doesn't fully support the newer version just yet.
Thank you for sharing this. If I can find a way to more easily read it (don't really like the archive.org UI) I'll definitely check it out more thoroughly.
One of the things I miss the most from Reddit is Christian communities, they are practically nonexistent on Lemmy. Seeing this randomly pop up in my feed was a very pleasant discovery.
P.S. your second link is broken, at least on my end.
Your separate instance idea is interesting but it'd would be way more work than we can afford, both on a human perspective as well as an economic one. Manual reposts are a no go, imo. What could happen would be applying some kinds of filtering to the content that gets mirrored from Reddit so that only the "best" gets in, though it'd be tough to figure what that would be.
Also it would require me to rewrite part of the Fediverser software (the program behind the reposting bots) and find a host for it, which again would mean hosting a second instance. Man, if only money grew on trees...
Thanks for the feedback. I still have some doubts about alien.top reposts, in particular regarding moderation and how it might affect user perception, but hearing different opinions is exactly why I decided to open this thread
If they have a reasonable desktop client
It's basically the design of an iOS app stretched to fit a desktop, looks quite ugly to me. But I personally dislike everything-Apple so I'm very biased about it.
Looking at their GitHub it appears to be written in React, similar to lemmy-ui (well lemmy-ui is InfernoJS, not React, but they are basically the same thing), so I could definitely fork it and add flairs. But I doubt they would merge it into their main app, we are the only instance using flairs and we are still very small.
Hi Mr. bot, this is a test
Sometimes it happens, yeah. Takes a while or multiple clicks to load. I built that site as a one afternoon project, it's far from perfect.
Another thing you can do is going straight from the URL. For your instance that would be https://defed.xyz/check/lemmy.ca
I get the vibe some instances just don’t want to share that information
Oh yeah, big time.
When I posted it to the lemmy admin chatroom, some admins who shall remain nameless commented saying it "gave bad vibes" and that wanting to know such information felt "toxic and gross". Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, of course, but considering the data is already available under the /instances page... well it's just weird that anyone would have a problem with wanting to make it more accessible.
PSA: you can use https://defed.xyz to check which instances have blocked an instance (only works with Lemmy ones).
Seems to be up now. But I get your concerns, having an instance with an inactive head admin and redundance of sysadmins isn't great. Best of luck for your new instance!