I see them around all the time these days. I wouldn’t dream of buying a car that says ‘build your dreams’ on it but that’s not on all models.

Maybe neighborhood?

Showing my age, that reminds me of Geocities.

I feel like that’s getting there, though ‘home’ doesn’t sit right with me somehow; too many other connotations (after all it’s still somebody else’s server, unless you’re self-hosting it, you’re still using it on their terms so it’s not a ‘home’ in a typical sense).

Maybe ‘gateway’ or something like that?

Yeah, agreed, as much as I’d love to see Mastodon gain momentum on Bluesky but there’s nothing in that screenshot alone that suggests “full Elon mode on censorship”. More information needed.

It would need someone to set it up, but I have my non-techy family members on Silverblue and it suits the purpose as outlined. Also not sure why all the fear-mongering about btrfs, I would say it’s ready and suitable for mainstream use now, or you don’t have to use it.

It’s good to keep some old computers to play around with. This looks particularly old, so you could look at trying some ultra lightweight desktop environments and browsers - don’t really have any current recommendations there myself but it could be fun to see what you can do with it.

It’s not about blocking ads for me, that’s a happy side-effect, it’s about owning your computing and taking the necessary protection against tracking. Before “ad blockers” existed I spent a lot of time manually configuring my browser to block websites from connecting me to unnecessary, potentially intrusive third party servers, after all it’s my browser and my internet connection. Now uBlock Origin does that for me, it’s not an ad blocker, it’s a wide spectrum content blocker and the user should have the final say on what they connect to. I think we should stop calling them ad blockers.

I don’t remember hearing Maxthon mentioned since the 00s, I’m a bit surprised it still exists! Epic is proprietary and Chromium-based, so avoid.

I think it makes the point that needlessly large cars add even more risk than necessary.

Buses on net reduce the number of vehicles on the road which makes them a net benefit for safety.

Yes, it’s definitely getting better and should be celebrated, it’s a good video, I’m just concerned that the title might discredit the message for many people since it’s showing mainly areas outside of the City where the statistic doesn’t apply to.

It’s great but is the statistic referring to the City of London or Greater London since that’s a big difference? (City of London being a small part of Greater London). The video talks about and shows lots of areas of London that aren’t the City. But the specific wording of the title makes me think they might be overstating things since it would be much easier to achieve in just the City since a lot of people don’t drive there anyway.

The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no? E.g. if you click this it should automatically use your instance to find the comment (even though its a link to my instance): https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17606535

No that link opens in your instance for me like a vanilla hyperlink, I’ve used several instances all with Lemmy’s default web front end and that’s always been the behaviour in my experience, maybe some apps do it differently? If it did it automatically wouldn’t the software have to have hard-coded knowledge of every other instance to know whether to handle it as a Lemmy link or somewhere else on the web?

That’s useful thanks for sharing.

It feels like there should be something like that built into Lemmy and I was a bit surprised there isn’t, just like how you can link to a community for example with !fediverse@lemmy.world

That’s not the argument here, actual antisemitism (which this is not) is still unacceptable prejudice against a people and not “stealth blasphemy laws”, this has nothing to do with religion.

It just means that the decision comes down to the instance owner not the software developer, which I think is right. Everyone should be able to decide what their computer does, that’s important to hold on to.

It wouldn’t be a free software licence by the FSF definition (rule zero). Of interest the FSF rejects the original JSON licence because it contains the clause “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” Since Mastodon uses AGPL, it wouldn’t be compatible.

That’s a really misleading headline; a Mastodon instance has done this, Mastodon as a whole can’t do this because it’s free software, it can be used for any purpose.

See 2025-06-01 14:40 from Konstantin Ryabitsev. Navigation is just below the post.

Anywhere where it doesn’t bother other people.

It’s “Wastebasket” in the UK on the GNOME desktop. I’m happy enough with that.