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US 101 is one hundred years old today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_101

@jripley 👍 POSIX prevails

@brooke this would have all been easier in base 11

that would fix "interstate" H1 too!

> US 101 is classified as a primary route with 10 as its "first digit"

Well, considering that it’s not off-topic at all, you absolutly must listen to the whiners and do what is needed-

Remove it of course!

You can’t have differences of opinion on .world. If it’s not what the hive likes, and it’s not “civil”, according to…. No one, it must go.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

Cannot agree more. That was shitty, but the turds had already filled the bowl.

@the_etrain

We've all been there

Imagine causing a national security crisis and triggering an FBI investigation with your penis.

@alexpsmith ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I cannot wish you all the best any more than I currently am in my brain. This was a weird sentence that was well intentioned and poorly delivered. Now the big finish...... Huzzah! I don't know how to communicate. Beaming you much love. 😊❤️

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

I don’t disagree, but I think the heavy-handed moderation was often in service of “cleaning up” to make the website more commercially palatable. Like when they pulled r/atheism as a front-page reddit.

For me, the out of control engagement bots constantly commenting on my comments was the last straw that made me leave.

The issue is really that it’s not really possible to do good moderation (i.e. censorship) at scale.

When the site is centralized, all users have to get the same basic experience. That means someone needs to decide for the entire world what’s allowed and what isn’t. It isn’t just whether you’ll have porn or no porn. It isn’t just whether you’ll have hate subs, or subs dedicated to violence. It’s where you draw the line at politics. Is sexism allowed? What if it’s just a sort-of sexist joke? Can people talk about Nazi ideology? What if it’s a sub for historians?

What makes something like Lemmy better is that each instance can make their own choices of where to draw the line, and other instances can decide whether to federate with them or not. That way an instance running in Germany might have different ideas of where the lines is when it comes to Nazi imagery, and sex, and violence. One in New Zealand might have completely different ideas. If you’re a user from NZ the NZ instance might match your tastes better, but if not, you’re free to sign up for the German one.

yes, assuming you are there for a discussion and not entertainment.

most folks are on reddit for entertainment, let’s not kid ourselves. very tiny sliver of the users were there for discussion.

Imagine, if you will, a larger titan submersible

@joshdm woo for Tapestry! 😄

As luck would have it at least nine of the Dems who skipped the vote take money from AIPAC.

#AIPAC #DNC

First

This.

I am so old, I remember when cable TV only delivered one episode per week of a TV series (that lasted 20+ episodes per season). I am also old enough to remember how streaming services broke that system by dropping complete seasons at once for binge watching (but also reduced seasons to 8-10 episodes). And now we have streaming services going back to cable TV by delivering one episode per week and asking for even more money. Progress, I guess? ;)

@mcc when I do this I copy a build command and run it with a preprocessor flag -E to see what the macros expanded to, so I can inspect __cplusplus in the expanded source code.