That’s a frontend question I’m too much of a backend gremlin to competently answer, haha!

With that warning, yeah, a distinguished meta/"help with PieFed* topic could be good. On LemmyNet there’s a “local” page, which is the default, so people are nudged towards looking around on their own instance first. However, I get the feeling you’re trying to expose the most active communities right off the bat as part of UX.

So what if some town somewhere were to ban cellphones?

Me too, but that one might be dead for good.

I bet it would, depending on the definition of “removable”. A casually removable cover that’s also waterproof usually involves a rubber seal that can fail a bunch of ways. On the other hand, shrink-wrapping the electrical parts of a phone all together is cheap and nearly foolproof.

If they allow batteries that can be replaced with specialised but available tools that might be a nice middle ground.

Is blanket forbidding glued parts practical? It’s the obvious simple way to attach some things. I’m not sure if the tools even exist to package a wafer with just screws, for example.

Of course, this is the EU and they’ve shown themself capable of legislating away only the dumb parts of an industry.

It is relative, but it only takes one chain of transmission.

AskHistorians on Reddit had an answer about this. Stuff is flimsy but also really easy and cheap to make copies of now.

Optical disks are also pretty good too. You can even buy special ceramic ones that shouldn’t degrade over centuries or millennia.

On Reddit there can be multiple tech subs too, and I bet there are. Usually one of them just becomes dominant.

Reposting a comment that applies here:

Yeah, moderating a large sub isn’t as shake-and-bake as the admins seem to think. They might “hire” scabs, but the scabs are probably going to slack off pretty hard and might not even understand the tools and procedures that can make it effective but not stifling to content.

And remind us who’s been maintaining that system for so long? I seem to remember spez saying something to the effect of “it’s democratic because you can just start another community”.

It’s true, thousands of cheap instances will add up, and probably to something bigger than what a server farm would have. Unless we start hosting something heavier than text extensively I expect the bill per user is still going to be tiny, though.

It was. How does one link to another post on Lemmy?

Once old Reddit goes leaving is not a matter of choice for me.

O damn! That’s bound to come in handy.

Yeah, that would work. Paging @[email protected], who started this discussion and who does self-host. To save you a click, here’s the libraries you could use for that.

Ah. You sound like you’ve looked at the code, can you say if there’s some sort of admin command to sync a whole instance?

And I can see this back on Lemmy. Fascinating!

I’m pretty sure you could still be banned from [email protected]. I wonder how that would show up back on Mastodon?

So then when you say “most operations on data will be done by the owner of that data”, do you mean ownership-taking functions? In my head a variable is like a bin, so it’s odd to think of it doing any “operations” other than holding.

How did I not know about that already? I’ve been on DDG for a years.

While I have your ear, “who” exactly are the owners in Rust? So far I’ve come to understand it from the aliasing XOR mutability perspective, so I don’t really understand the more common terminology.