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"If we're going to meet at noon, the sun should be straight over head, damnit." Absolutely.

This looks amazing!

Pleorma is easier to install and less resource-hungry, so the bar for setting up an instance is lower.

An instance of Lemmy is free to federate (or not) with other instances on the Fediverse. Each instance can have its own code of conduct. Seems good for everyone.

Sounds similar to WinLink forms on ham radio, used to make sending structured data easier: https://www.winlink.org/WinlinkExpressForms

Please don't joke about suicide.

I understand your pain. Even simple things like moving posts from one channel to another aren't possible for an admin to do in Slack, although this has been basic forum functionali…

What do you see as the "huge tech cost and barrier of entry of mastodon"?

When Gratipay existed, they didn't take a cut (financial transaction fees were covered by donor or recipient). They survived on dogfooding[1]. Liberapay operates the same way. [1] …

Glad to see you're still around!

It also includes the ability to sponsor through Liberapay, the remaining Gratipay fork.

There was a lot of pivoting going on near the end, unfortunately. The "companies pay" version of the site wasn't around for very long.

As articulated four years ago: https://gratipay.news/your-company-should-probably-pay-2000-...

Cool! I found an example of a local feed here: https://help.openstreetmap.org/answer_link/25796/

StreetComplete is a great Android app to help update OSM data by asking you questions while you're out walking around. So rather than drawing new features, you're just saying "yes,…

In a perfect world, all of those would work in an RSS reader.

I would add that Joplin is great because it's plain text. People keep trying to shove OneNote at us at work and all I want is one text box per note, that doesn't move around when I…

This is the big thing hidden behind all projects (renewables, capture, efficiency upgrades) that claim "this is the equivalent of taking 60,000 cars off the road." Think of the sav…

Snopes disagrees, maybe why they removed it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/

I think the word "option" probably needs to be emphasized more here. My workplace is moving toward hybrid, which allows this option. > That won't be for everyone. But there might b…

This source suggests that geological methane emissions are about 40% of total emissions: https://phys.org/news/2021-03-natural-geological-methane-emi... Oil and gas seeps notwithst…