I moved here two years ago. My tactic for initial pronunciation lessons has been to ride the SkyTrain and adopt the pronunciations used for station announcements.

Based on that, it’s “LOW-heed”

I will add that many of us who work remotely using publicly accessible wifi also use VPNs, and Imgur actively blocks IPs from multiple commercial VPN providers. If you want those users to see the image you’re sharing, Imgur is not the way to go.

Pixelfed works well with other Fediverse services like Kbin and Lemmy. Try hosting there!

They haven’t said why. I’m assuming that federation with outside entities would present some logistical problems for them w/r/t their privacy obligations in Europe. If that’s right, I suspect the whole ActivityPub thing could be “delayed” indefinitely.

They previously announced that they would federate with ActivityPub, but yesterday we learned that it won’t happen for “three months.” With all the European regulatory issues and other factors, I’ll bet it will be a lot longer than that. In fact, I’d be surprised if we ever see full federation capability.

I scorned the Independent when they reported a few weeks ago that Trump would be indicted “tomorrow.” None of the usual journalists in the know confirmed, and plenty of reasonably reliable experts cast doubt on it. And then the next day came, and lo and behold, the indictment was issued.

All this to say, I don’t take the report as gospel, but I take it seriously.

Yeah, I posted that to !fediverse@lemmy.ml from my lemmy.ca account. I figured that if the admins aren’t answering questions via Matrix or whatever, maybe someone there would have an answer. (So far, nothing more than the same kind of speculation that’s happening here.)

Tusky is best for those who are newer to Mastodon. Visually it’s very clean, straightforward to use, and largely free of bugs (it helps to have been around for so many years).

For users more familiar with Mastodon, I’d go with Fedilab. Despite a few bugs, it’s the most customizable option, with so many features you can tweak to your own tastes.

Weird story. I had no idea he had carved out his own little crypto world before really seeming to break down.

So in this case, that does mean that someone with a Lemmy account who is subscribed (from that account) to Kbin magazines will be able to see the latter within the app, right? One wouldn’t be able to login to Kbin, but could view Kbin content from their Lemmy account?

Let’s not turn on other users when Reddit is the actual problem. Show them that there’s something better being built over here.

Don’t go for the belly, it’s a trap! Will only end in claws and bloodshed!

But but but mah neighbourhood character…

Yeah, this is just bizarre. I posted about this a few days ago, before Monday’s statement and the calls to resign. I’d seen she was blaming “health issues,” but no way did I expect her to take a taxpayer-funded vacation, where she’s probably spending even more time trolling on Twitter.

And of course she was a COVID denialist, too.

Yeah, I ended up stopping by this weekend. I actually thought the mocha I had was decent, but YMMV

The money quote IMO is at the end:

Reddit, like any commercial platform, is only a community until its owners need it to be something else.

That’s a good reason to be mindful of what we’re building here on Kbin, Lemmy, and other federated networks. We’re not just trying to build a Reddit methadone, to help us down from our high after quitting cold-turkey. We are, I hope, aiming to build (or rebuild) a community – one not dependent on the monetizing whims of a private owner.

The author is right: Spez lost site of the community aspect. Here’s an opportunity to show them that the idea still means something to a lot of us.

In the short term, people will come by to lollygag. In the long term, there’s only so much John Oliver anyone wants to see in a day, so traffic to those subs will likely fall.

Kbin is really only one instance (kbin.social - the only alternatives are alt language instances, I think?

Nah, there are like two dozen instances that are still accepting signups, and most of them are not language-specific in any respect.

Doesn’t really solve the question of “how do I pick an instance,” just substitutes one set of instances for another

Mastodon is primarily a microblogging social media platform akin to Twitter. The other two are primarily multi-forum board akin to Reddit.

All three rely on the ActivityPub protocol, so there is some intercommunication between them (esp. between Lemmy and Kbin). That’s why they’re often referenced in the same breath. That, and most websites operating under these standards are not run for commercial profit.

Yeah, I wouldn’t call it misleading, but it’s poorly written for sure. Active voice would be clearer and more succinct, e.g. “BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, threatens to leak data”