To be clear, if someone is open about being racist, or sexist, or transphobic, they'll be free to try and convince other folk that racism is good actually as long as they keep it civil and don't start throwing insults?
Cachy installs systemd-boot by default, but in the end I had to manually install grub, because systemd-boot doesn't play nice with btrfs snapshots when you do a kernel upgrade.
If the only significance of 240 sterlings is that it weighs a pound, then it seems likely the pound would have been a pound, whatever number of sterlings it happened to be...
Make sure you make a sticky post in the old community with the new address before lemm.ee shuts down. That way it will stick at the top of folks feeds, even after the instance is down, and people who find the old community will be able to tell at a glance what the new address is
As I understand it, there is no way of getting a remote users RSS feed. However, there are a couple of options, depending on exactly what you're trying to achieve...
PieFed has the ability to send you a notification whenever a user posts. But that would involve having your account on our PieFed instance (or on someone elses's)
Otherwise, if you're ok with editing the URL like you mentioned, or if you can modify it with regex in your app, and point it at lemmyverse.link. So https://lemmy.world/comment/17893041 becomes https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/comment/17893041, which when followed, will take you to whatever you set your home instance as. So you could click on that link to be taken to l.b.z.
I use PieFed rather than lemmy as my default these days, but the answer is the same for both. I love that they're community driven, community hosted federated spaces that let people find the experience they want, and that they're strongly resistant to corporate takeover and centralisation.
What I don't like so much is the increase in debate bro type folk that are slowly drifting over from reddit. Of course, they're at least partly dealt with by the things I mentioned earlier, but still, I wish we could undo some of the in your face debating attitudes that people have been trained to default to by toxic social media
I don't like there is no way to get notification (subscribe to) a post to see new replies that come in after I've read the post for the first time..
I've moved to PieFed now as my default instance instead of lemmy, and this is one of the main reasons why! And you can do it at the community level as well, to be notified when a new post is made to a given community
There are better ways of convincing non involved participants than debate, especially it's an argument around human rights, bigotry, transphobia, racism etc. Getting in to a debate normalises the idea that "both sides" of these arguments have similar validity and value.
Honestly, I like it. I run google and all of its platforms in their own tab containers, without signing in and that's what my Youtube looks like. It's great, I can search for the thing I need, and otherwise interact with google ad spam as little as possible
Honestly, I think they're worse than people say. There might be the odd good news story to come out of them, but they are designed to get you to fork out cash, and stay around and keep forking out cash, so their whole goal is to feed you hope, without ever causing you to be successful enough to leave.
It just redirects to https://join-lemmy.org/ for me