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It used to be very common in Tamil Nadu for an uncle to marry his niece. So common that the word for uncle (mama) can be used interchangeably with groom
It used to be very common in Tamil Nadu for an uncle to marry his niece. So common that the word for uncle (mama) can be used interchangeably with groom
I’ve been on Internet too long that I still don’t know which side you stand on. And that’s exactly the issue.
This is a very complicated problem. Not as straightforward as either side thinks.
Heavily politicised issue though. Imo, the whole trans issue should’ve never been politicised.
Not really. 1896 was a leap year, but 1900 was not.
The leap year after 2096 will be 2104.
Edit: an interesting way to put this is, 2000 was the only year in 4 centuries where the year starting the century was a leap year. Next such occurrence will be in 2400
To answer the last part of your question, they don’t need to think of Lemmy at all. “Lemmy” is a framework, not a social network. infosec.pub is the social network I’m on. I don’t need to know about Lemmy at all (most of us don’t know what powers Reddit). Here we discuss information security and I can also communicate with the wider fediverse.
It doesn’t even have to be lemmy. I can connect to anything that uses activitypub. Mastodon, Kbin, Bookwyrm, Wordpress, etc. using my infosec.pub account.
The lemmy code provided by lemmy team is cloned and then patched (if needed) by infosec.pub maintainers and then deployed to their servers. The code for all intent and purpose is owned and maintained by infosec.pub. Lemmy doesn’t have any real control at that point.
Same with the arsenal example. arsenal.club is a social network about Arsenal powered by lemmy framework. If mufc.club uses another activitypub enabled protocol, the arsenal fan on arsenal.club can view that in their subscribed feed too.
The whole conundrum of “choosing an instance” is a phase that early adopters like us go through. People can’t be expected to go through the choosing part, then find communities to follow.
We expect people to find their specific instances without even knowing what Lemmy is and if needed, grow their fediverse presence from there.
This decentralised nature is the fundamental idea of fediverse. More generalised communities like lemmy.world means we keep trying to build a centralised alternative to Reddit.
The ultimate end user doesn’t even need to know what Lemmy is. Much like a blog’s reader doesn’t have to know what Wordpress is. They can create an account at arsenal.club and if needed also subscribe to transfernews@mufc.club. But by default they see their local feed filled with news related to Arsenal. And their subscribed feed full of their interests apart from Arsenal.
The local feed is what differentiates an instance. The quality of which is a direct indicator of the instance’s quality. Hence the most important feed
This is where we disagree. I have active accounts in 3 instances and none of them are general-purpose. I need local feed in all of them.
We don’t really need more general-purpose instances. There’s <10 right now and that’s good enough. But there’s >100 content-specific instances. I may be wrong on the numbers, I’ll run some analytics and get back
The subscribed feed would be empty and the All feed would be irrelevant in the Arsenal fan’s case.
Local would be full of posts from communities inside the Arsenal instance. Why would that be confusing?
The ideal flow isn’t people making “lemmy” accounts like reddit accounts. Take an Arsenal fan. When he finds out the lemmy instance called arsenal.club, he doesn’t have to immediately know what lemmy is or what federation is. He can sign up, view and participate in his local feed, which will be full of Arsenal related stuff. And then he can stick with it or find the full capabilities of federation
If they default to “All”, random news is gonna fill all the default feeds which is weird for a general user
I haven’t been on a very long flight. Longest was 2 hours. Every time I keep my Kindle ready. Have multiple podcasts etc. But right after take-off, I go off like a bulb and wake up only after landing
Something to do with a combination of pressure difference, engine noise and all. Also it’s pretty cold usually
I don’t know what the proper term is. I’m sorry. Not trying to be rude or offensive. English isn’t my first language either
Kindly let me know what the term is
I’m genuinely curious. Would you consider someone like Mulan trans? I’m from India and we have mythological stories of intersex and gods magically transforming to the opposite gender. None technically trans
are we stretching the definitions here a little bit? Would we call Mulan trans?
I feel that with the advent of social media and the freedom to read same news incident from multiple sources in a matter of minutes, the news sources are forced to pick a side. There’s more activism and less journalism.
There used to be 1-2 activist newspapers, but now even the big ones have to choose sides
Intersex yes. I thought trans was a relatively new (20th century, maybe 1930s) thing. What is the earliest recorded transition?
What I’ve often found is that even seemingly harmless addictive behaviours leave lasting impressions on my personality. My two addictions I’m trying to quit are porn and nicotine gums.
Porn was just taking up too much of my time and energy. Especially since I was working from home. I’d be in meetings with my camera and mic off browsing some weird nsfw on reddit. Stopped cold turkey and it feels amazing tbh
Nicotine gums stay on for now. This is one addiction which has actually provided me an unintended benefit. My jawline improved drastically over a year! But I hope one day I can be comfortable sitting with myself idle not wanting to compulsively do anything!