I don’t like their fries all that much either, but on the off chance that you’ve been eating them unsalted, they don’t salt them, just give you the salt on the side.

The red specs are bacon bits.

This is not to say that there’s anything wrong with them – I used to keep them around the place, quite liked them, though I don’t currently have any – but those look to me like soy-based bacon substitute, rather than bacon.

Soy-based bacon substitute:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4698130d-fcfd-41d2-a939-ee4d316a6642.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4698130d-fcfd-41d2-a939-ee4d316a6642.jpeg

Crumbled bacon:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/e0fc30c3-31c8-47b7-92d6-3fe2c6ac75fa.jpeg

Unsealed crumbled bacon you can keep for (checks) apparently about a week in the fridge. That is, unless you’re dedicated to regularly making it to keep it on-hand, it’s not gonna be ready-to-go whenever you want some on something. I am way too lazy to deal with that.

It looks like opened soy bacon substitute is supposed to be good for something like six months unrefrigerated (though I’ve certainly kept them for rather longer).

My biggest concerns would be privacy regarding data scrapers .

The protocol already exposes votes, so they already have that. It’s just not currently visible in the Lemmy web UI. You can, as other people on here have pointed out, already go to any kbin/mbin instance federated with a lemmy instance and view upvotes on a post or comment on that lemmy instance. Not downvotes, but kbin/mbin don’t propagate downvotes.

The protocol fundamentally exposes them. Absent protocol changes, if someone hasn’t already, sooner or later they’ll just make a website to look them up.

That only shows you the communities that your particular instance knows about. But it’s not even all communities over all federated instances.

An instance only “knows” about a community on another instance once both (a) it has federated with the other instance and (b) someone has explicitly triggered a search for “!communityname@remoteinstancename” on an instance. Like, that community doesn’t get added to the list of known communities on federated instances just because someone has created it.

For example, take bbs.9tail.net, a small lemmy instance.

You can see that that it’s federated with lemmy.world on its instances page:

https://bbs.9tail.net/instances

And it’s only blocked a single instance, lemmygrad.ml.

But (as of this writing, and that could change if someone goes and starts triggering searches for stuff on there), it only has two pages of communities, with 63 (in a quick count) known. There are far more than 63 communities on lemmy.world alone, not to mention on all the other instances that bbs.9tail.net is federated with.

Lemmyverse.net, on the other hand, crawls all the instances it can find and builds a full index. Currently has over 27,000 communities. Once you get a “!community@instance” name from there, you can trigger a search for it on your home instance, and your home instance will learn about it. But until you or someone else does that, your home instance won’t know about that community.

I still have no clue how instances work but whatever I’m doing has been working fine for nearly a year

You have a user account “Got_Bent”, on an instance (you can think of this as a “server”), lemmy.world. That’s your home instance. Thus, you are @[email protected].

You can view communities on that instance. This post, in fact, is on a community on the lemmy.world instance, [email protected].

You can also view communities on any other other instances that lemmy.world is federated with (which is most of them). For example, [email protected]. By-and-large, you can use them the same way you can communities on your home instance.

Reddit is pretty similar, just that with Reddit, there’s only one “instance”, Reddit.

Instances might go down (so users with that instance as their home instance can’t log in and communities on that instance aren’t accessible. Some have certain rules about what users who use that instance as their home instance can do. Others have certain rules about what communities on their instance are allowed to do. For example, my home instance, lemmy.today, wants to avoid defederating with other instances (which means that people with that home instance can see all other content). Some instances, like beehaw.org, want to keep some content that might be objectionable to their users out, and will tend to defederate with other instances if they consider them to be problematic. Some instances allow hosting communities that have pornography (like lemmynsfw.com) and some do not (like sh.itjust.works). Same thing for communities dealing with religion or extreme political views, and so on.

In general, it’s helpful to have a home instance in the same rough part of the world as you, as it’ll make things more-responsive.

Feeding user data to an LLM.

I mean, somewhere, even if not now, if the Threadiverse becomes large enough, someone is gonna be using comments here to train an LLM too. That’s just gonna be a given unless you want to use non-public forums, and that kills the searchability and accessbility to everyone that makes most forums valuable. It’s even easier to access here than on Reddit – just set up an instance and federate with and subscribe to everything.

I guarantee you that people are going back and training LLMs on archives of old Usenet discussions too.

The rest of it, yeah, I get.

I find half the battle here is finding new places to sub to.

At the moment, none of Lemmy – and AFAIK, kbin/mbin/etc – or any of the clients provide a native way to search all of the Threadiverse. Some of that is kind of intrinsic to the distributed design, intended to help it scale, let instances be small if required. An instance doesn’t track all the activity on all the instances out there.

However, if you go to lemmyverse.net, they have a list of all of the communities across all of the instances on the Threadiverse. You can search and filter by various criteria.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

I really think that that should be the starting point for most users.

I don’t know the specifics.

I mean, some of those are fragmented for a reason. Like, [email protected] is pretty decent, but beehaw.org has a low bar for defederating from other instances, and has defederated from lemmy.world, which is the largest Lemmy instance, so anyone using lemmy.world as their home instance can’t use that community.

Beehaw.org’s not gonna refederate due to the split – that was intentional. The people on [email protected] aren’t gonna shut down their community, because they can’t use [email protected]. Ditto for lemmy.world people on [email protected]; they can’t use [email protected].

I subscribe to and enjoy both communities.

I would suggest rather than entirely leaving the Threadiverse, just leaving that community and joining the [email protected] community.

You’ll probably be happier at [email protected] instead.

I generally avoid communities on lemmy.ml where there are options elsewhere.

I’d think you could eat one as a breakfast pastry.

I mean, I don’t think that the primary role of the doughnut is dessert. Sweet, sure, but not dessert.

Now I kind of wonder if a tuna melt baked potato would work.

Doesn’t look like it lives near the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops_norvegicus

It lives in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, and parts of the Mediterranean Sea, but is absent from the Baltic Sea and Black Sea.

Now I kind of wonder what the largest gingerbread house is?

I wonder if the Guiness Book of World Records has it.

checks

Apparently they do:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-gingerbread-house/

The largest gingerbread house had an internal volume of 1,110.1 m³ (39,201.8 ft³) and was created by Traditions Club (USA) at Traditions Club, Bryan, Texas, USA on 30 November 2013. The house was 18.28 m (60 ft) long, 12.8 m (42 ft) wide and 3.07 m (10.1 ft) tall at its highest point. Visitors to the house were able to meet Santa Claus, in exchange for a donation to St Joseph’s Hospital in order to raise monies to build a new trauma center.

googles for an image

https://www.traditionsclub.com/discover/gingerbread-house

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/msg-study-table-salt-reduce-sodium-intake

Replacing Table Salt with MSG Could Help Reduce Your Sodium Intake, Study Says

MSG enhances flavor with only a third of the sodium of table salt.

Just gotta put a little magic powder in.

I will also say that, while I’m not vegetarian, India does have a pretty well-developed vegetarian cuisine. I recall a friend who is vegetarian once commenting that most restaurants have pretty constrained options for vegetarians, unless one is going to specifically a vegetarian place – a pretty high percentage of menu choices aren’t normally vegetarian. However, a lot of Indian places do have a pretty substantial number of options for folks in that situation, and those options aren’t, well, disappointingly second-class options.

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