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Yup. Listen to the latest season of Blowback podcast. CIA sheltered/evacuated a bunch of Al Quaeda leaders right before the invasion of Afghanistan began.

What a great bday gift for me

Honestly it aligns with my humor so well. Nothing else matches it for me.

Yup

I love PBF

Thank you for both of those!

Nice work to all the contributors for this release. Feels great so far.

There was like 200 comments worth of discussion on this and it seems like it was implemented without much fanfare. What gives? This is one of the biggest gripes I had early on. I’m gonna shout this from the roof tops

Hmm, weird. It works for me now

English version reroutes to the Lemmy (musician) page

I guess I’m not seeing any benefit to just having each of those communities you described run their own Lemmy instance. There is already LemmyNSFW.com for example. And then if they want a local community for music etc. they can have it, or subscribe to (a theoretical) LemmyMusic.com. Then users can have their home base but still subscribe to other remote communities.

If discovery is the concern, that can be solved more easily than building out a entirely new infrastructure like you are proposing.

This is essentially happening now. All the big servers (Lemmy.world / beehaw / Lemmy.ml) host the lions share of the content and discussion. Me and my users are essentially a user server in your example.

I’m actually shocked this is happening

Super Mario RPG hits different, even 20+ years later

Two thoughts:

1 - I think we need to live with the fact that digital permanence probably isn’t good for us, and it probably isn’t something we can count on. I think websites and communities come in cycles, so we should collectively plan for both the boom and the bust.

2 - (respected) instance admins in Mastodon have a covenant they sign that provides a bit of a backup against this scenario: more than one admin per server (or at least have another trusted individual who can step in if the admin becomes incapacitated); backups in case of data loss on a hosting provider; and I believe at least some kind of terms of service that says racism/bigotry etc will be dealt with actively. (Correct me if I’m wrong here). I think users need to look for instances on Lemmy where admins can provide a similar set of guarantees

Edit: another point - I don’t think it’s immoral if people set up bots that can clone submissions to a backup instance in case of disaster, too. But of course there probably wouldn’t be a way to take the discussions/comments

There is an ActivityPub plugin in the plug-in store that does all the work for you. I had some trouble getting it setup and federating at first but I may have been tinkering too much; I think if you just install that and the recommended Webfinger plugin you will be golden - let me know when you do and I can help you test

Yes. This is why I blog still. Any niche setup instructions I need to recall later, I make sure to write it down. As I said in another comment on another post, it’s great if that helps someone else out, but it’s mainly for me.

I also tied my Wordpress blog in with ActivityPub recently (last 6 months) so people can subscribe to it automatically from Mastodon, or other fedi clients, if they wish.

FYI there is a GitHub issue open to add a site map to Lemmy installs. I was going to try and take a stab at it but I don’t know enough Rust to be useful.

You can subscribe to those communities on your instance, and then interact with them.

I wonder how the user account is calculated too. I think Dartboard Links (links.dartboard.social) has about 10 users now.