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If you want lemmy to work well, speak with /u/[email protected], he’ll sort you out. Dude is a legend and runs the best instance, IMO, but is always willing to help other instances.

The question hasn’t been legally tested, it’s no more certain now than it was before.

While it might be the case that the EU could come down on a user’s main instance for not deleting everywhere, really it’s no different to anywhere else - any app that uses an API or even just a simple scraper can get comments that a user posts, so as with those it could also simply fall to the user to go around each and every instance and request deletion. Arguably, the Fediverse is better than this because it does include a facility for deleting things from a host instance - the only issue is that the other instance might not necessarily follow that (as instances don’t necessarily run pure lemmy code, in fact they could run anything).

I’m all for that. Make the cheese look like solar panels for added effect.

I’m sorry you can’t stand it be so, but that’s literally how language works.

I think you wooshed on my joke about the definition of “literally”.

the incredibly petty baby inside me upon reading your initial comment wanted to invent a dish called Sheperds Pie (spelling intentional because I’m a jerk) with steak to fuck with prescriptivists.

I’m all for that! The difference is you know you’re doing it wrong and are choosing to do that, rather than just saying the wrong thing.

Yeah I have no problem with it being a common term, I just feel the need to point out it’s wrong hah. People say wrong things all the time colloquially, but they know it’s wrong.

Calling a cottage pie a shepherd’s pie is worse though, along with calling a wind turbine a windmill.

He cooked it 2² times - that’s even better!!

Almost all of them extend from an action that still holds true:

• Roll down windows - you still get manually operated windows, and the motor rolls in electric ones.
• Dial phones - the verb has a separate definition to the noun.
• Use a clicker - not sure what you mean here, but things do still click.
• Write on computers - a piece of writing can be typed or hand-written. It’s about making a marking on a surface.
• Blackboards/chalkboards/whiteboards - the first two are generally wrong, whiteboard is the only one that would apply to a digital surface.

I’ll throw in another one:

• Windmill - they’re not windmills, they don’t mill anything. They’re wind turbines.

Some of these terms stem from marketing people, who are only a couple steps down from estate agents in terms of the evil they bring into the world. This should not be celebrated.

Many of these can be considered acceptable, even in the ways that they’re wrong, but it’s still acknowledged that they are wrong. With biscuits, people think they’re right.

Biscuits are established because people were wrong. That doesn’t mean people today are right.

Your example of plumb and level doesn’t work, because plumb is still considered the correct term for vertical alignment. People will generally know what you mean when you say level, but the other term is still considered more correct.

“Biscuits” are nice, but they’re not really biscuits, they’re savoury scones. Meanwhile, most store bought long shelf life cookies are biscuits, in spite of being sweet, while fresh cookies are generally not. Similarly, tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables.

You can say it the wrong way all you want, but when it goes against the core definition it can never truly be right. I literally can’t stand it being so.

The etymology of the word comes from French and Latin, literally meaning “twice cooked”.

I come from the Channel Islands, I can tell you from experience that it’s not exactly a place of high education. I can also easily see them giving a two fingered salute to the French, as well as to the English on occassion.

Exactly. Supermarkets sell both.

Although strictly speaking the supermarket cottage pie is more likely to be horse than beef.

And Americans call savoury scones “biscuits” even though they’re not cooked twice.

“Most people” are wrong. Terminology exists for a reason. You made a cottage pie, you just didn’t know what you were making.

Probably to do with the recent spam wave.

ever since the cabbage incident, anime has never been the same

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Edit: http://imgur.com/a/2Bt2C

Ah fair, I guess I misunderstood GUID’s.

But they can only be globally unique if each instance has its own range of unique ID’s, otherwise they’ll have to check with the other instances to make sure the GUID they want to use hasn’t already been used. With new instances spinning up all the time you can’t really manage this.

I agree that the @instance provides a little more info, and it fits nicely in line with how user profile and community URLs are handled.

There was also a github issue report about putting the title in the URL, like reddit does, but I think this goes too far - lemmy has the ability to change the title and putting the title in the URL would just confuse things or lead to exploits (eg you put naughty words in the title then change it afterwards, but the URL still has the original title).

Done. I hadn’t seen that issue before, not that I really dig into github all that much.

However the issue is somewhat outdated. We do have instance agnostic links for communities and users now, and we have since I joined, which was less than 2 weeks after this issue was posted. We may need a new updated issue that focuses on posts and comments specifically.

I don’t think there’s a need for a GUID, in fact it would be quite difficult - every instance would have to check with every other instance to ensure that the ID’s are unique. Meanwhile, if we just have the federated host picking a number, then every other host uses that number followed by @hostinstance, we don’t need cross-checking but still have unique ID’s for everything.

For example, https://lemm.ee/comment/123456 would be a different comment to https://lemmy.nz/comment/123456 (as it is currently also), but the first comment could be found on the 2nd instance as https://lemmy.nz/comment/123456@lemm.ee.

I wish Lemmy would make instance agnostic post and comment links. With the current system it’s impossible, as every instance assigns its own number. Instead, links could be in the form https://your instance/comment/number@hostinstance

Ah right, fair enough. I hadn’t realised Sync was doing that - I’ve been lazy and stuck with Jerboa.

The website seems to generally be the best way to browse lemmy anyway, particularly with its continued development. Apps quite often dont’ conform to things lemmy does, like automatically making instance agnostic links out of /c/[email protected], or the drop down box for typing a username and sending them a mention.

Which app are you referring to? Bluesky?

Mainly I want to know so I can avoid it, although I’m already avoiding Bluesky.

By my reading of it, you can still discriminate against pineapple pizza eaters, or any other group whatsoever, you just can’t harass, bully, violate their privacy or threaten them with violence. Which is fine by me, if someone wants to make a community only for ginger haired people and ban anyone they think isn’t naturally ginger, that’s their perogative.