Yeah, I've been meaning to look into that. Especially so I can start unlinking my bank details from sites that will eventually expose them in a breach.

That maximizes my costs as well (plus hassle). I don't even own a checkbook.

Gotta do what you gotta do 🤷‍♂️

I think fry.gs is the main mod's own instance.

Though best practice, as much as it exists in the Fediverse, would be to host the community assets from the home instance of the community.

Please upload the icon/baner to LW instead of from a 3rd party instance. This is the second recent time these have broken.

Several years back, I set my phone's language to UK English so the voice assistant would be British, and my flashlight button changed to "Torch".

To my knowledge (as of 0.19.3 anyway), yes. Except for any images, naturally, though possibly the post thumbnail could have a local copy.

Is it still possible to interact with the communities (post, vote, etc.)?

Yes, but only locally.

If your instance already knows about the community, people on your instance can still post and interact with the community. However, anything submitted to it will not federate to other instances, so it's analogous to a local-only community.

Unless the LW admins removed them already, there were some Beehaw communities that were still showing activity on Lemmy World from local LW users despite Beehaw not federating with LW. (Those communities were resolved prior to Beehaw defederating). The one I recall seeing no longer comes up, so they probably did remove them (admins were aware).

is it still possible to delete them if the ownership of the community (aka the top mod) belongs to an user from another instance

I don't think so, at least not in 0.19.3. There are some operations that, if using a remote mod account (even if it's top mod), throw a "not a moderator" error.

The DNC could have run an iguana wearing an offensive trucker hat, and we still should have voted for the iguana when Trump was the alternative or stood a chance of winning again.

It's up to the voters to make smart choices, and some of them made the stupid choice.

You clearly have no idea how US elections work at that level. The single candidate with the most votes wins. "Not Trump" was not a candidate.

If Trump gets 49% of the vote, Harris 48%, and "other" gets 3%, that's not counted as 51% against Trump and he loses. That's Trump winning with 49% of the vote.

Anyone who didn't vote (or didn't vote for the only candidate likely to defeat Trump) is responsible for his win.

"But if the Dems ran a better candidate...."

"But Harris didn't even stop in Dearborn, so it's her fault not ours"

"Sure, everything Trump says is a lie, but at least he stopped here to lie to our faces. It's the dem's fault."

"One of Trump's first acts last time was a Muslim ban, but I can't be arsed to remember that far back"

"I had to vote for this otherwise the dems wouldn't learn anything"

/s

Block button.

And this is why every time a developer asks me for shell access to any of the deployment servers, I flat out deny the request.

Good on you for learning from your mistakes, but a perfect example for why I only let sysadmins into the systems.

It's reich on the tip of my tongue, but I'm just NOT SEEing it.

“The president of the United States calling for ethnic cleansing and the continued genocide of Palestinians,” she says.

But do tell me more about how you just couldn't vote for Harris. Actually, don't. I'm done with listening to the mental gymnastics.

Trump won more votes in November’s presidential election in Dearborn than the Democratic party’s Kamala Harris or Green party candidate Jill Stein, the first time a Republican party candidate won the city in 24 years. ... “A lot of people [in Dearborn] voted for him secretly,” Zahr says. “They are the ones who have gone silent now.” Zahr voted for Stein.

Leopards, meet face. Face, leopards.

I'm tired of having this conversation so I'll just link to a previous comment and leave you with this:

Unless it's "I fucked up, I'm sorry" I really don't want to hear it right now.

I'm....speechless and all out of snark on this one. This is fucking horrifying.

Single-issue voters who threw their vote away or sat out and did not help stop this, well, hope you're happy with your choices.

Well, how would you make eggs affordable then? /s

Wrong preposition lol