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How does Lemmy differ from an idealised Mailing List? (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/nostupidquestions
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Lemmy is definitely different from how mailing lists work in practice - much faster to get updates on, more ergonomic, etc., but in theory - could SMTP, IMAP, and a bit of ingenuity be used to turn a mailing list into a Lemmy-like interface for comments, links, etc?

I just had the idea of making a mailing list-based ActivityPub host lol, but it would probably be much slower than Lemmy in just about every way because of protocol overhead.

Calling all devs! We need moderation tools that can deal with the growth of Lemmy. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, after reading that I think the defederation was a quite serious mistake on their part that will probably cause a lot of people to abandon their instance.

Voter ID: 14,000 were denied vote in England local elections, watchdog finds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You could maybe get a provisional driving licence? Not ideal, but I don't think you need to actually drive to get one iirc (has been a while).

Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not? in c/nostupidquestions
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Beehaw want to maintain a distinct identity and posting style from Reddit, so they have preemptively defederated many of the most popular Reddit-like instances.

Unicorns come in different sizes! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Or as we say in the industry, a bicorn (note that there is currently no industry that refers to them as bicorns)

Oldest original formatting website still up to date: milk.com in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow lol, that was not what I expected to find on milk.com

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r/france (feddit.uk)
Subscribed after today's headlines about Reddit's mods for this sub being booted. in c/mildlyinfuriating
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As did I. Was sort of okay with third party apps being blocked, but the whole mod replacement thing is unfortunate and has caused my favourite subreddits to go down pretty much indefinitely.