The way federation works is that everything is replicated across all federated servers. If an admin team does not want to have to moderate specific kinds of content or users who are deemed detrimental (but not necessarily illegal) they have the ability and right to defederate.
Also, I've blocked servers but it doesn't block users. Defederation does though.
Basically it just says stuff like "Are you tired of high COL? Come move to the middle of nowhere where the COL is low!"
Mostly it's targeted at younger Millennials who simply cannot afford homes in the GTA, generally citing better affordability out west.
The Alberta campaign is the same, except it also totes high job growth across the province.
I have family who have moved out West into a house that would be locally priced at over a million dollars but due to being out in Sask it was about half as much as that. I'm very tempted to move out to the prairies myself since my job is entirely remote, and it's truly just considerably more affordable out there.
Here's a picture of the Alberta ads, I can't find one for Manitoba right now for some reason: https://i.imgur.com/fF0c6nY.jpg
I'd love to see the same concept executed in Toronto.
The downtown core is actually pretty spectacular, and the only thing going on right now is companies trying to force people to RTO because of the massive costs of all those towers and other real estate.
I would rather get rid of the mix of sports betting and Move to Alberta/Manitoba ads on the GO train in favor of a campaign to move people into converted high rises. Maybe we can solve a teensy tiny bit of our affordability problems, but that is highly unlikely.
I would personally ban/defed from Monero.town because it's a scam-ass crypto instance.
Every time I see a "guide" like this it's always from a monero.town user. The last guy who was posting "reviews" was bitching about how he got stiffed paying for a game or something with crypto, and nobody had any sympathy because when you don't pay with real money you don't get the guarantee of a service rendered.
I used to always buy a K series chipset even though I never used the iGPU. It's literally like a 50-70 dollar savings depending on the chipset going from K to KF. I figured I'd rather have it for troubleshooting and not need it, rather than need it and not have it - but if you're using the iGPU chances are your dGPU is fucked in some capacity, so it's really pointless when you're trying to troubleshoot a graphics card problem.
There's kind of two modes with that. If you're in a bad mood it's easy to just become a bulldozer of anger and malice and just shit on every single aspect of the first seasons. Otherwise, it's just a discussion where we disagree on what things we enjoy.
I find it easier to have a simple discussion here on Lemmy. On reddit you're about 50/50 going to encounter somebody angry and malicious, but here it's probably more like 70/30 towards a good conversation.
There's nothing real about them though, except their malice.
I am the kind of guy who will make fun of you for watching and enjoying the first few seasons of Disco and Picard because I think they suck, but I've stopped trying to tell people how to enjoy their media. The world is already a miserable enough place without trying to make people feel bad about their content watching habits.
0.19 is not going to be the magical fix everybody is hoping it to be. Yeah, you'll be able to block an instance from federating to your feed, but the posters from the instance will still show up.
I wish everything was a bit more standardized between kbin/mbin/Lemmy. It feels like we have these forks of the project that do different things because they emulate different behaviors of other sites, and reaching parity seems difficult without a lot of developer discussion.
I like a few things about kbin but for a while it was the instance causing the most spam on my feed because federated mod actions broke and spam cleaned up locally would not get cleaned on other instances. I saw Ernest back posting again so I guess development has resumed and some of those issues have been banged out.
I am sick of bots. I am sick of reddit. I am sick of reddit content being mirrored. If you want to read reddit comments go to reddit. Lemmy is not reddit, it should not aspire to be, and it is a unique and interesting place full of great conversations with quality users. Reddit is a wasteland, and I am tired of people trying to import it to our new space.
But it doesn't bootstrap conversation properly, because some OP on an entire other website is asking for help, and we're talking to brick walls.
Lemmy is more helpful for Linux help than reddit is anyways, because on reddit they'll tell you to fuck off and search, while on Lemmy I can still get hands-on support with a willing community.
Haha, fucking most innovative gameplay what a joke.
Hey, all things considered? I'd say it's pretty innovative to sell us a loading screen simulator at full price.