Why vote on posts?
What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I'm not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?...
Atheism - Lemmy.world (lemmy.world)
A community for people who don’t believe in gods....
I wrote my own streaming app for Android TV. Do you want me to open source it? (kbin.social)
I've been using my own streaming app for the past few years now....
Fresh off the SLAMMER press (lemmygrad.ml)
Qin-aligned cetacean patriots have taken control of a billionaire submersible. AtlantiSS will fall....
Is Lemmy or the fediverse doing anything about the recent surge in users, that could possibly be bots?
Been watching over the recent surge in fediverse users for about a week now. Last week, it was climbing what i would call naturally, organically. Now for the last couple days, its been like 350k in the last 2 days....
normies
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b33072e4-62bb-4b32-9b97-b174c5fa37c3.png
Made a post on r/ModCoord yesterday why mods should keep their subs closed no matter what. it reached the top of the sub then it got removed lol (media.kbin.social)
*River flowing* (beehaw.org)
Can you steal a user's identity if you gain their old domain name?
Just a random thought experiment. Let's say I have my account on a lemmy instance: userA@mylemmy.com. One day I decide to stop paying for the domain and move to userA@mynewlemmy.com, and someone else gains it and also starts up a lemmy instance....
What is the worst superpower that you can think of that is actually kinda useful?
Your can make up one if you wish too but keep things pg-pg-13 becasue why not, idk. pretend this is an interveiw and try to get hired to join some big superhero company or something....
What should individual communities on Lemmy be called?
Reddit has subreddits. What does Lemmy go with?...
Safety tips when disassembling old electronics?
I'm taking apart a broken tape recorder produced in the 70s (a Tesla B57, made in Czechoslovakia), to harvest some parts (inductors, switches, ...) and maybe reuse the case for some project....
How John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil war (www.theguardian.com)
Moderators flood feeds with pictures of TV comic as they fight owners’ plans to go public
A wild Alligator appeared... (mander.xyz)
Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?
Reddit is called as such because “I read it on Reddit”
Residential rules: Balcony cat nets are not allowed, however trellises on balcony are? [Semi-long] (regna.nu)
So this is a tiny and very mild malicious compliance on both mine and a neighbour's part. Might be boring for not-cat-owners (or most people) to read....
Ube Mochi Waffles (lemmy.ml)
Ube Mochi Waffle Recipe...
Best System Possible (media.mas.to)
Finally made an account (media.kbin.social)
Found a "software tester" in Rocket League (feddit.de)
Do you need to vent about something?
Let it all out. Be a storm
Estonia becomes the first ex-Soviet country to legalize gay marriages (www.themayor.eu)
The Riigikogu, Estonia’s Parliament, passed a new law which legalizes marriage for same-sex couples, thus becoming the first post-Soviet country to do so. That this happened in the month of June, which is generally when most Pride parades take place around the world, is also highly symbolic and poignant.
tar.gz (feddit.de)
Weird cable with USB A connector with 5 pins
Hello, I recently bought a USB A to C cable and it is pretty weird. It is a USB A to USB C cable, seemingly USB 2.0 but the A connector has 5 pins, the 4 pins of USB 2 and what looks like pin 7 of USB 3.0 so in the middle of the back row, the other pins of USB 3.0 are not there and the plasting moulding only allows for that one...
This 72-year-old Georgia man graduated college with his 99-year-old mom in the crowd (www.today.com)
