That’s actually surprisingly common.

Definitely - but that’s 15% of the Mets budget. Screwed up as it is, it’s also underfunded, and the result is that Londoners who are most affected by crime - predominantly low-income - will pay for this

I’m probably going to be on both.

It was pretty surprising how easy it was to create an account and a not-to-bad feed. All of the communities I like don’t yet exist on lemmy, but there’s nothing preventing them from starting up, and the structure is very good.

Reddit has already created a permanent scar in it’s user base. This event has seeded a minority of users on lemmy/kbin/whatever. And there will be more again on July 1 when the various 3rd party apps stop working.

Even if reddit just stops there and doesn’t do anymore detrimental things to it’s user base that scar is permanent. There’s enough users on here now to be self-sustaining for a few small communities at least. And anytime in the future that reddit pulls some shit - which given their corporate structure, it looks like they will - more users are going to look for alternatives and many will end up here.

For someone like me - that’ll just mean more time here and less time on reddit, until eventually it’ll be only on here - just like Digg, just like Fark, just like all the other ones.

Man, he’s so professional. He gives answers that I’d expect a very experienced PR person to give, yet he’s just a single-man operation developer.

Yeah I’ve been looking at the w3 spec. It’s interesting. I think there isn’t yet a good explainer page for newbies.

Yeah, I read that before, but I didn’t really understand what that meant.

I think people get way too caught up on technical optimisation issues with a language.

The reason a language, programming or otherwise, catches on is ultimately based on how many people use the language. So the lower the barrier to entry, they more people who will use it. PHP has a pretty low barrier to entry to creating a website (however simple/bad) and it has a lot of cultural momentum. I don’t see PHP going away anytime soon.

This is a great test of the underlying principles of federation.

Maybe you think that the lemmy.ml creator is an unapologetic human-rights hating tankie.

Maybe you think that he’s a visionary and bastion of free-speak.

Maybe you think something in between.

The whole point of a decentralised federated system is that it doesn’t matter.

Okay this federated stuff is really growing on me.

The idea that you can sign up on any server, and still have a feed from many different servers is pretty cool.

If history has taught me anything - I would say that means that kbin will persist forever.

I think that’s the case. But I’m new here too, so maybe there is some way to search across instances.

No, but you can subscribe to both communities from your account on Lemmy.ca.

So it’d act like 2 separate communities on your feed.

I’ve been fiddling around with it a bit. I think the way it works is that you sign up to an instance, and log into a specific instance. You can search for communities on other instances - e.g. ifyou search for https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, which is the memes community on the lemmy.ml instance, you can subscribe to it, even from this instance.

The comments do go across. That’s quite good.

Can someone explain a little bit about how federation works? Can I log into other Lemmy servers using my lemmy.ca login? Also can I create communities that exist across multiple servers?