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who even decides what's "modern" anymore?

thank you for your work sunaurus, and i'm sorry you had to sort through this

(particularly annoying though, as i never got around to adding a user banner; and i had one in mind as well. i wish there was some way to externally host avatars and banners)

okay but here's the thing - you commented on cth. what did you expect

this is like going on to 4chan /r9k/ or /pol/, being offended, then writing a letter to your isp saying "can you block access to 4chan for your customers"

don't ask lemm.ee to defederate, just block the community

also the megathread is probably locked for a reason

but what if going away makes it worse? .world's downtime has only increased since i made my l.ee acct

goddammit

i joined dxcomplex because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn't fold (and i liked the name);
then it folded so i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn't fold (and i liked the name);
then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn't fold (and i liked the name)

i'm starting to wonder if i'm cursed

i'd never noticed how much the twitter logo looks like an upside-down sonic the hedgehog

The three patents relate to “a system for presenting and controlling content on a display device.”

ah, so you mean all computing devices

lemmy also (unofficially) supports footnotes.[^1] you may want to view this in a browser^[as it currently doesn't render in any mobile clients]^[also note the differing positions of the caret]

additionally, with no markdown linking at all, the web interface^[and i believe most apps] automatically turns [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld) into a link

[^1]: with two different syntaxes

this seems like a really odd choice. admittedly the old name wasn't great, it sounded like spreadsheet software.

but they've gone from a name that was the top search result to one that will never be, because the current top search result for "firefish" is a recruitment company that can put a lot more money into seo than they can; and a name that most people who would use it (techies & early adopters) will immediately assume is a firefox fork or mozilla product

in isolation it's not a bad name, and i really like the new logo; but it just seems like a poor choice

i personally would be reticent to move anything to lemmy.zip, given the issues with .zip domains. especially on lemmy, with the @'s in the urls

but i don't have a ps5, so i don't have a horse in this race

when they burned the library of Alexandria the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes

- @yurirando, 2022

i understand the schadenfreude of watching these awful companies collapse, i really do. i experience it as well. but i can't help but baulk at how much data is being lost. assuming 99% of it is worthless, that's still millions of ideas that are lost forever.

a few years ago there were (albeit obviously wrong at the time, but nevertheless) questions about "is this the last generation of archæology? all info is now stored forever on the internet" - and now, countless links go to a facebook page i need to log in to see, or a tweet that's unreachable because twitter's ddos'ed itself. years of tech support on reddit, and anonymously uploaded art on imgur. the work web.archive.org and archive.is are doing is invaluable, but it will never be enough.

i want to watch the corporations burn too. but we're losing something we'll never get back.