Lemmy used to hardcode it, and you would’ve needed to patch the code to remove it:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

It’s now editable in the admin settings of the site. I’m not sure if the Lemmy devs inserted a default value or if it was manually set by @jgrim@discuss.online, but right now it just filters that one word and variant spellings on discuss.online. So IMO not really censorship in the same way that lemmy.ml does it

Yeah, I copy/pasted the quote as-is, and Lemmy has a slur filter that automatically changes things to *removed*, which in this case made it more confusing.

I also don’t get why he’s old and she’s not 🤷

See glowie if you’re confused about the joke:

From glow +‎ -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that “CIA removed glow in the dark”, implying that they are conspicuous. The term “glowie” would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.

Oh thanks, should’ve clicked the back button before asking 🤦

Is that referencing something? Did the New Yorker write an article critical of them?

You might enjoy reading The Egg by Andy Weir, if you haven’t already

Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them

Don’t say that too quickly. Now that I’m posting the old comics again, we’ll see if it’s any darker now than the early comics 🙂

It’s not as big, but there’s another community-discovery community on discuss.online: !newcommunities@discuss.online

Not really sure how that works with federation. You’re not “using” lemmy.world, you’re using lemm.ee, which has a copy of content from lemmy.world.

It’s not a great joke either way, but I read it as either “Fooled you! You thought I was hallucinating but I’m joking!” or “Oh shit, I’m hallucinating, better play it cool and act like I was just pretending”.

I have multiple accounts, but only really for moderation purposes. Cross-instance moderation is semi-broken, so it’s easier to do it that way. Other than that, having an alt is useful in case your main instance goes down.

I wouldn’t generally worry about impersonation, if someone tries it you could contact the admin of that instance and they’re generally pretty responsive.

That was great, thanks for sharing!

Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.

I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.

Mostly Lemmy via discuss.online, with a little bit of Pixelfed via social.photo and Mastodon via utter.online.

I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while, but the most recent update made it not work right on my phone (and there’s no web version), so maybe I’ll try again when it’s out of beta. It’s also not truly federated atm, so only sort of counts.

I’ve tried out a bit of PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm. The dev does some interesting experiments like Private Voting

Sorry, worded that somewhat confusingly. FairEmail and Thunderbird are both open source apps that I use as clients for my Fastmail account, which probably isn’t open source (I haven’t checked)

I use Fastmail with a custom domain for hosting, and FairEmail as my Android app and Thunderbird as my desktop client. Pretty happy with that setup, the apps don’t do any data mining and are fully open source

Thanks (It was bothering me

The linked site has a bit more about it, but usually you see toggle switches like that with relatively “balanced” options. “On” / “Off” are about the same width when rendered as text. It’s easy then to just make the switch big enough for the bigger option and everything’s good. What happens if you have “On” and “Some really long text option that should probably be shorter”? The image shows what it looks like toggled to “On”, and then goes over two solutions, neither of which are great options:

• Use the smallest size and cut off the larger text. Not really a viable option
• Use the longest size, but when the shorter option is toggled to, you’re left with a bunch of blank space

Related, pagination can still get broken if you try hard enough. Some sites have pagination, but bump up the id of old posts every time there’s a new post, so it’s still useless because the links will change content