I cannot tell whether this is being asked in an aggressive or derisive tone. Out of curiosity, how would you respond to:
What the heck is a greenback? Slang for the American dollar?
if it was asked in c/USA on lemmy.us?
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
Adding servers to the federation list is just white-listing them. It's not actually establishing syndication in any way. You don't syndicate at the website level, you syndicate at the user level.
The way the system works is, a user on your website subscribes to a user on another website, and from that point forward the remote website starts sending your website that one user's posts, addressed to any and all users on your website who requested them. Your website then receives and stories a copy of all future posts from the remote user, and adds them to the subscribing users' feeds.
This subscription is very much like a magazine subscription. Your site does not receive the back catalogue. It does not automatically receive other magazines (users) published (hosted) by the same publisher (website). You only get what has been requested, from the point the request has been accepted onward.
There is no canonical fediverse that you can just see. It's not a centralized system, which means there's no source of truth to tap into. It's a mass, opt-in content syndication technology, where you have direct access to the locally hosted content on the single website you are using. The fact that much of that content originated elsewhere presents the illusion of some centralized whole, but it's just that: an illusion.
- So, the thing to keep in mind is that "PixelFed" is not a place where you can go to see things. It's the name of the software that powers a bunch of websites. You're using a website. That website knows about what is hosted locally. Your friend? They're using a different website. When you look up their account/ you're looking up a copy of that account that's been sent to your website. If things are happening on other websites, your website doesn't know about any of that, any more than Reddit knows what your friend posted on Facebook.
The whole fediverse works by requesting remote accounts to send your website a copy of whatever they post. This works like a magazine subscription. Your dentist (the website you're using) says "please end me Kichae Quarterly" and the publisher sends them a copy every time a new edition is publisbed. When you go for a cleaning, they have a copy of every edition starting at the time their subscription started. They do not have the back catalogue, and they certainly don't have copies of everyrhing the publisher has received in the mail (comments, favourites, etc.)
- Are you using the same server? Which website are you using? If you create an account on a different website, it's a different website. If it's the same website, well, storage costs money, and your account was inactive. Maybe they just removed the old posts?
Why would he think that nonbinary people exist? What about anything he's ever said, done, or dog-whistled about ever suggested that he was the kind of person who believed in or gave a shit about anything but the simplest wrong answer to any question?
Pixelfed isn't private. Mastodon isn't private. Lemmy isn't private. All privacy is account privilege based.
The person who's paying for the hard drive gets to see what's on it.
The biggest Lemmy instance still isn't going to let you follow Mastodon or Pixelfed accounts.
"Average" does have a meaning
It's absolutely reverse engineering. People want to believe that the world is a meritocracy, and that means believing that those who have succeeded at meritful.
People avoid internalizing that the world is a kleptocracy, because that would mean having to confront that if they want to get ahead, they'll have to actively amd knowingly fuck other people over, and most of us are not psychopaths
Business people will do almost anything to eliminate wages
Waited a week to see if he actually signed with the Dodgers. Glad they finally added a bat!
Now, to Vladdy...
Can top level comments federate?
It's not recent. It's been a common misspelling for years. You're probably experiencing the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.