Voyager is probably the most popular. I like Thunder, personally (both are open-source but Thunder isn’t completely FOSS because of the language it’s written in).

Accidentally replying to a post instead of replying to a comment is a Sync bug (I think it happens if you try to reply via a Notification). I don’t use it, but that app seems a bit unmaintained.

To ping a person, it’s like what you did, but you need to include the instance (e.g. @jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world - most apps should auto-complete it once you start typing)

Maybe, but image posts drive more engagement than text ones. You can see on [email protected] that the text posts, which are no worse LQFs than any other ones IMO, score noticeably lower.

I like sites / Lemmy frontends that provide some kind of ‘teaser’ for text posts (they also show a bit of the post’s body in the main feed), meaning you can often see both the feed line and the punchline for a post without going into it (it works well for ‘dad jokes’ for example). But the default frontend - lemmy-ui - doesn’t do that, so it hobbles the potential of text posts.

It is happening. If you look for news of, e.g. “Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Harris”, most outlets just say ‘X’.

In my results, The Guardian, the BBC, The Independent, Fortune, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The Hill just used ‘X’. Politico said ‘on social media’. Only Forbes did the ‘formerly Twitter’ thing.

There used to be one - https://lemmings.world/u/communitylinkfixer

It looks like it was de-activated 3 months ago.

If you make a new one, please consider limiting it to just this community (and maybe communitypromo), and to not translating a link if the OP has also already provided a ! one, and to not translating links inside code blocks.

Drive-by bots can seem easy to make, but the problem is that they can be a bit too easy, and then end up as yet another annoying one.

There’s a lot of drama in that Issue, and then, at the very end:

Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.

the SDK and the client are two separate programs
code for each program is in separate repositories
the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3

Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.

To my mind, the ideal would be that if you, as the person who wants to share some ‘open-source’ news, chose one community that you think is ‘best’ (based on what instance it’s on, if the mods are real people and are active, participation levels, whatever you think really). And we, as subscribers, would do the same. This way, the ‘good’ communities would thrive, and the ‘bad’ ones would wither away. What happens at the minute, is that there’s 8 communities for open source, and there’ll always will be, because they aren’t in competition with one another.

(this is mostly just a general point about cross-posting behaviour, it’s not meant as a dig at you personally).

If you type a ! link using lemmy-ui, it auto-completes it so that MBIN sees it as an absolute link to the community on midwest.social (Blaze’s link is without the auto-complete). Lemmy, like Mastodon, can be a bit “fuck you if you aren’t us” at times.

Don’t know if you know, but there’s another community - albeit on .world - for this game: [email protected]

Yes.

(if it didn’t already have it, Lemmy would fed this out with a ‘fuckcars’ hashtag, so it’s not like you guys are completely free of all this hashtag malarkey).

Putting people you don’t trust into a trebuchet is a win-win: it technically means you trust them more, but it also makes them someone else’s problem.

If an 8-inch wang isn’t doing the job for you, it’s probably as much about technique as it is about size. (I watched this assuming it was a parody vid, but it’s an April’s Fool upload from the real channel).

I know all the cool kids hate on AI, but as someone out of the loop, that ‘podcast’ is really impressive. I guess it speaks to how a influential certain style of podcasting is (from the likes of NPR) that a machine can copy it the same as other humans do.

As for the embedded link, this works for me (and others on the same site as me), but it might not for others:

Thanks. Turns out that if it wasn’t for Washington, Americans would be free to occasionally measure themselves in ‘stones’, based on the easy-to-remember system of there being 14 pounds in a stone. Or maybe 12. America’s loss, either way.

I’m guessing “Washington’s Dream 1” was for America to have TV shows with sketches that go on for slightly too long, punctuated by incredibly enthusiastic audience noises (in England sketches are mandated to only last 3 minutes max, and are greeted with quiet stares of appreciation).

Only kidding: this was a fun video.

Incels complain about being put in the “friend zone”, so infrels must be one layer below them?

Well, it won’t help you (or me), but the the most active is probably https://hexbear.net/c/ama (the lemmy.world seems to have got nuked, and the already-mentioned lemmy.ca one is the only other one I found)

Nice. The thumbnail image reminded me of an Open Pandora, which similarly looked like a chunky DS and ran Linux (it was mostly intended for playing emulated games). The Pandora was never that repairable though, in the sense that it was mostly a system on a chip.

Before I even looked, I thought that I bet this device is more expensive than I’d assume - the crowdfunding site is listing prices roughly between $1000 and $1500.

HBO Max, for the brief period of time it existed, had a more fitting ‘bumper’. Hacks, which started out as a ‘Max Original’ still had it in season 3, but The Penguin, which was a Max Original until it wasn’t, has the fuzzy version (I’ve had players that struggle with it a bit, but I doubt HBO gives a shit about the quality of my experience pirating their stuff)

Well, yeah. Dunno how popular those names still are though. There’s also androgynous-sounding name like ‘Alex’ or 'Andy, of course, but I figured that the general idea was to take a flight of fancy and riff on it, not shoot it down from the skies.