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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it's big enough to see.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a long-time cryptocurrency observer, it is going to be very amusing (in a bitter sort of way) seeing everyone discovering that they're trying to solve the same problems that cryptocurrencies have been working on solving for over a decade now. And then finding all sorts of ways to contort themselves into solving them differently from how cryptocurrencies did it so that nobody can accuse them of being "crypto bros" or whatever, even though the technology is perfectly applicable as-is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That actually sounds like a useful idea. I've seen a lot of people on Reddit dismissing Lemmy/Kbin in very derisive terms that suggests they haven't actually tried coming here, but if there are communities that are actively bridging the gap it'll expose them to it more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm now seeing reports over on [email protected] that people who have deleted all the comments from their accounts - even those who did it years ago, not just in the past few weeks out of protest - are having all their comments reappear again. This apparently also includes comments that were overwritten with edits.

Scummy behaviour from Reddit, but a potential boon for archivists. People who are running backups or maintaining archives of Reddit comments might want to take this opportunity to re-check historical deleted comments to see if they can be collected now, in this remaining window of API accessibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally, I'm not finding Lemmy/Kbin to be difficult and I still plan to use both until old.reddit finally goes away. It's a transition, not a switch being thrown.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice. Any plans to include kbin instances as well?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Of course, the people of the Donbas were just sitting there peacefully doing nothing when all of a sudden the Ukranians started shelling them. That was the start of the military action, silly me. Good thing all those vacationing Russian soldiers happened to be there a the time to defend them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we'll see a temporary "return to normalcy" after the protest finishes and most subs come back online. But come June 30 and the end of third-party apps, we'll see a bunch of users come back to Lemmy/Kbin again.

In a way, this seems like the best way of driving things. The protest has raised awareness and got a ton of development work going, and then there's going to be a respite giving instances time to prepare themselves for the second surge.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wish the AFU had the courage to not waste the lives of their soldiers and come to the negotiating table so that no more lives are senselessly wasted

What's to negotiate? Russia has seized Ukrainian territory. Ukraine wants it back. There's nothing for Ukraine to concede.

The only side "wasting" lives here is Russia, if they'd just go home the war would be over. Ukraine's not going to try seizing any Russian territory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How dare the people rise up against their rightfully-installed rulers and decide they want someone else. What did they think this was, a democracy?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Anyone that "knows" they will completely overpower Ukraine apparently stopped paying attention to reality many years ago. They've been proven to be incapable of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Russians, without any double meanings that Russian sympathizers could jump in and say "aha, racists!" or "aha, russophobes!" over.

 

I'm curious, since one of the first casualties of the Great Reddit API Debacle was Pushshift, whether there's already any sort of equivalent for Lemmy.

If nothing else, I could imagine a pushshift-like "instance" whose actual purpose is just archiving everything from the instances it's federated with.

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