Most admins & mods want them hidden because when they’re readily accessible to users, more catfights & vendettas spring up, which makes more unpleasant work for the mods & admins.

I think one or more user polls have been done in the past where the popular opinion was to keep them hidden. Does anyone remember, or better yet have a link?

It’s a program certainly, but “just a program” is a bit misleading because it places it on the same footing as Doom or cat or an Arduino project. Linux is a ring 0 program, which processors give unique treatment.

Opens commenter’s modlog
Sees antisemitism

If you want a Nazi bar then make your own Lemmy instance for us to defederate.

Don’t ask AI things if you don’t understand them and their limitations.

📺 AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway

Usually whatever the default serif typeface is. What I care more about is flush left (“ragged right”) alignment, ideally with automatic hyphenation. I find justified alignment very distracting.

Problems with justification » Typographic anomalies

Ambiguous title is ambiguous ಠ_ಠ

Stalin has been dead for over 70 years, and “tankie” is nothing but a terminally-online pejorative for anyone left of Sanders. Maybe spend less time worrying about people’s takes on Stalin. He was neither Jesus nor was he Lucifer, despite what a century of anticommunist propaganda has said about him.

There’s no way to follow Lemmy users on Lemmy, though ironically, you can follow Lemmy users on Mastodon.

You can also follow a user’s RSS feed. The URL format is: https://HOSTNAME/feeds/u/USERNAME.xml?sort=New

Huh, I didn’t know that Karabiner Elements had competition on MacOS. It seems there are at least two competitors, kanata and keymapper, though they both rely on the Karabiner Elements’ driver.

Edit to add: Also kmonad, which was the inspiration for kanata.

I must have been asleep the day IBM bought Red Hat six years ago, because I had no idea.

~37% sees decline of union membership as good for US and working people.

The most propagandized people in the world, folks. We’re told it’s North Koreans, but that’s amateur hour compared to the propaganda the US aims at its own.

This post is a decade old, so take it with a grain of salt: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/save-power-on-battery-with-udev/2696

The licensing: Free and open source vs. paid, proprietary, and closed source. That really is the core difference, the licensing, and all the differences that come as consequences of that difference.

What separates the Linux kernel from the (Free)BSD kernels is copyleft/reciprocal licensing vs. permissive licensing.

The corporate algorithms are not on the side of the Palestinians.

Yes, it’s fine. The issue isn’t with that post. It’s with this one, specifically with the external link preview, which isn’t Lemmy’s most reliable feature. It may not be an issue that OP can mitigate, and they may not need to, unless they intend to post links to their blog posts often.

I don’t think this is a crossposting issue; I think it’s an external link preview issue.

That depends on the evidence, I suppose, and I’m not an admin for kbin.melroy.org, so I can’t ban them from your site, only mine.

But the what I would normally suggest is to report the post(s) or comment(s) for suspected vote manipulation, and let the mods & admins address them.

Admins can see the votes and identify bad actors, and they can set up automation tools. On lemmy.ml, we consider them spam accounts and ban them.

But it’s trivial to use an external tool to see who voted on what regardless of whose account it is.

It’s also trivial for us to defederate from such tools, which our instance and others have done in the case of lemvotes.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Possible AI bot. Responses are slightly off-track, and generic.