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Does a piefed account that only posts on Lemmy count as a piefed or a Lemmy user?

The only problem is it probably IS an adult human, a 85 year old running windows XP to check the church newsletter every Sunday.

(the newsletter is also hosted on xp)

The later people are paying to join and sustain an existing and thriving community built by the earlier people.

That was a bit off topic I guess. I really like how accessible the fediverse is by design, and how easy it is to curate an interesting feed.

Helps that I have a fairly typical set of hobbies for the fedi demographic.

Admins with access to the database and logs are free to run their own analytics, and share data with whoever they want. There also seems to be a few bots attempting to scrape all available data on the fediverse.

We have jenga at home

I feel like there should be an "are you alive" federation activity in activitypub, as well as an "I'm back" activity.

Servers go up and down enough that maybe it should be part of the spec

Go low tech, use libreoffice or something to make some card layouts, populate the fields from the CSV with a mail merge, print them and pin them to a wall.

This probably avoids an IT call because you should have these things already available.

Hi from ... something

I was about to say, I think your secret recipe is a vinaigrette. I don't use garlic powder in mine, but I might try it.

I sometimes substitute melted butter for the olive oil, and stir a teaspoon of sugar into it.

To be fair to Kent, he's only the best engineer in the world, not the best philosopher.

He's already in the doghouse with the Linux community I fear.