when on voice or the phone?

That’s it. Those are my pet peeves

I guess it means oldest wild bird? Captive parrots can sometimes live beyond 100!

Let me guess, you just watched The Diplomat? :)

There is no space on this instance or its communities for “allies” who think the tone of queer folks comics is the real issue that needs to be talked about

At a guess, I’d say it’s confirmation bias

Wow, this thread had me bringing out the ban hammer a lot!

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Hopefully me banning will get that message across

The thing is, when that happens, the mods/admins of the trolls new instance ban them there, without the original admin having to do anything.

Abandoned instances, or instances that simply don’t moderate, get defederated, so it’s quite manageable.

The only case where it’s not that clear cut, is where the troll is a big issue for one admin, but not another. Take trans issues for example. I have a zero tolerance policy on transphobia on this instance, but not all lemmy admins are as aware of the dogwhistles as I am, so I will block some users that other admins won’t. It’s not ideal, but it’s manageable, because I can stop their brand of transphobia from reaching my instance even if they’re not banned by the remote admin. And if that pushes the troll to create another account elsewhere to get through the instance ban, then that becomes harassment, and the other admins will act, even if they wouldn’t before.

Thus, the decentralized platform is rolling out a “more aggressive” policy on parody accounts that aren’t clearly labeled.

If it were decentralised, it wouldn’t be possible for the platform to set a network wide policy on parody accounts…

Image noise. For photography

Neat image is the one I use because it’s the only one that works. It’s not my first choice though

Unfortunately not. It won’t run under wine or the like. Even VMs are painful, because it needs GPU pass through to work, which requires a second dedicated video card

Really good image noise reduction software.

That’s pretty much the only thing I miss, and I don’t miss it enough to suffer through Windows

You went mask off pretty quickly…

But I have to play devil’s advocate

That’s not being a devils advocate, it’s just plain transphobia. As if trans people somehow have the power social power to choose the worlds attention.

You say hate is for religious reasons, and then blame the victims of that hate for the attention they’re getting from their oppressors, the very people you yourself just said are responsible for it.

And honest opinion or not, you chose to spend your energy undermining a trans person talking about our oppression, when you could simply have chosen to not do that. And that shit is creating the very problem you just blamed trans people for

I don’t think I’m quite as effusive about it as you, but it was a good movie and I don’t understand the hate either

Trans people

If I as an instance owner search & subscribe to another instance’s community, I get “federated” with that community. Does that mean my instance is, or my user is?

When a user on your instance subscribes to an external community, the instance that hosts that community gets a notification about the subscription. Then when new content is posted to to that community, the remote instance forwards a single copy of that content to all instances that have subscribers to the community, including your instance.

Then, when your instance receives it, it checks the content to see if it should send anyone a notification, and does so. It then makes the content visible to people and it will start appearing in the appropriate timelines of your local users (ie, in the “subscribed” and/or “all” timelines depending on the user)

If I want users at my instance to see posts from communities on other instances, is there a way for me to pull those posts in to my instance? Or, how do I get my users to see other communities’ content?

As soon as a single account on your instance subscribes to a remote community, you will get future content from that community.

As an admin, assuming you don’t want to subscribe to random groups just to federate them, you can create a dummy account, find common/popular communities using a site like Lemmyverse, and then subscribe with your dummy account.

You can also point your users at https://lemmyverse.net/communities. That site lets them set their home instance, and once they’ve done so, links to any community will point the user to the community on your instance. And if your instance didn’t have it, the act of someone trying to find it will cause your instance to go and fetch the community and recent content posted to it from the remote instance. Though in this case, unless the user then subscribes, you won’t continue to get future content from that community.

When someone on your instance subscribes to a community on another instance for the first time, it grabs a small amount of back history, and the other instance starts federating all new content to your instance as it generates.

There is no way to pull in a complete backlog of all history automatically, because it would be a large resource burden

However, what you can do is find content that you want to interact with on the remote instance, copy the URL and then search for that URL on your server. That will pull that content and its context to your instance.