Err, yeah, that. I dunno why I thought he was Goofys. Thanks :)

I’d rename Pluto after Mickey’s dog

They aren’t struggling with comprehension, they are being deliberate about misrepresenting the facts.

Can I introduce you to the concept of “fire” :D

A single bitflip wiping your novel is incredibly unlikely, to the point of being almost impossible. Modern OSs and filesystems are fairly resilient, and the data is likely all still there.

That would be really cool. And kinda fits the “organic growth by subdividing” model

It’s part of the same family, so I don’t see why not.

I’ve not experienced piefed first hand, but from what I heard it joins Cross posts somehow? Lemmy you can create your own feed by subbing to communities, is piefed different?

I think those are different in that you don’t need discourse. You can post away, and if no one responds its not a big deal. But other communities, especially ones that people might go to for help or advice, getting zero responses to a question is spirit crushing.

I personally dislike the cross posting in lemmy, as it results in seeing the same post 3-4 times in a row, which is kinda annoying as well. I believe piefed does it better (dunno if anyone can confirm that?).

Those niche communities work on reddit because there is a huge userbase to keep them alive. If you create them here, you get an empty community that looks dead, which discourages people from posting.

Having an active “hobbies” community going first, and then later splitting off the “knitting” community when it’s clear that there are lots of knitters means that you don’t get empty dead communities.

You can’t force the niche community into existence, it has to grow organically.

Does become a bit of a philosophical question though doesn’t it: Is a community really moderated if it has zero activity?

Also, I somewhat object to the framing of “moderators owning communities”. I don’t own the community I mod, I serve it. If it was a ghost town, and closing it down would prevent people stumbling into it and wasting their time, I would be completely in favour of it.

Yeah, the ship has largely sailed. But also, there are lots of communities that are empty and also functionally unmoderated, so some could be removed.

Honestly, I think we have way too many communities. Cull them back to a small set of fairly broad communities: Arts, Tech, Politics, etc. Once those are active enough, then start to subdivide as the sub communities grew to a sufficient size to self-sustain.

What happened instead, was people tried to create all the same communities that reddit has, without the people to sustain them, and now it looks like a ghost town.

Programming.dev has been hiding a lot of those kind of communities by default, others could as well:

https://legal.programming.dev/docs/hidden-communities/

But even with that fairly substantial hide list, I agree, we do drown in news and politics.

Damp cloth to capture the dust? Or a strong vacuum to capture it once airborne?

Depends on the Corp, some do legit cutting edge work, some really don’t do much actual research.

Been a while since I’ve seen a bluescreen period. 10 and 11, for all their faults, have been pretty stable on that front. Crowdstrike did spoil a very good run.

Even in the US it would be punishable. Morality aside, using a billion dollar NSA malware on a person carries a real risk of getting the malware caught. The NSA might be willing to wear that risk for a high value person, but not for some employees kid.

Purely on a misuse of a valuable asset it would be punishable.

Join your countries instance? I’m fairly sure the people in Aussie.zone aren’t American. You could also put your flag in your display name.

Not a cover, but an hommage: https://youtu.be/6L_6rShR0kY

A truly smart criminal wouldn’t get caught. So you could argue any of the unsolved crimes were “smart”. But equally likely that they were just lucky.