[they] didn’t do anything wrong I just didn’t agree with them

And that's why it's disabled! That's not what it's meant to be for, it's meant to be for things that don't add to the conversation. If it's factually wrong then fine - downvote, but don't do it to suppress others' opinions.

I noticed one of the Lemmy instances recommending everyone change their settings to use 'hot' by default in their site rules sidebar. Makes sense, the many instances look a lot more lively that way.

Wiktionary gives him the invention credit (although its source does seem to be KnowYourMeme).

I was thinking this the other day. Without having read the spec, it seems like mirroring should be fairly straightforward - but then once an instance has gone down, how do the users find which mirror is promoted to the new main? Or should the mirrors be treated like backups, and just used to populate a new community on whatever instance is chosen (and then mirror from the new source)?

So many don't understand that the mods need those tools, and don't care about people who need the accessibility (although I suspect that argument is popular more for having the moral high ground).

I noticed maliciouscompliance appear here, welcome!

Bitwarden is open source (server, plugin and app) and can be self-hosted so it's not centralised in any way that matters.

Also, I think an honest freemium offering is the best way to do it - have those that are willing/able to pay subsidise those who aren't. It doesn't have to be a slippery slope, and that's not exactly common in the open-source world. After all, you can just fork it and go your own way if you're not happy. Also, running servers isn't free, and being able to remunerate the devs a little is no small thing.

So, in summary, use Bitwarden. You can set up your own server and install the plugin/app yourself if you want.

That was my first thought - if reddit doesn't want that feature, we'll take it!

You're a few ahead of me on the re-read; Lords and Ladies is my next one. I'm taking my time though, I started in 2019.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

Reducing the font-size makes it look pretty great.

I imagine the devs have stats on uninstalls - I wonder what they show.

As noted, this is an old article. You can install the plugin here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/

I just tried it on https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie and it's definitely good enough to be usable, although it has translated the top story as "What the new data glasses from Apple can". Google Translate's version is almost the same for most of it, although it gets "can do" right.

It initially recognised that it could translate feddit.de but seems to have stopped now. Hmm.

Anyway, even though German->English is a pretty easy test given that English is a Germanic language, I'm happy to leave it installed and test it in the wild.

They call them them magazines, e.g. @[email protected] is at https://kbin.social/m/wholesome or here on beehaw at https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected].

I think it's a good idea to spread out your online presence to regain some anonymity; being doxed or stalked does not sound like fun.

Some people post pictures of their street and their airline ticket and then are surprised when they get back to find they've been burgled.

Yeah, when a simple bots can post most of the replies. E.g. if post.contains("r/theydidthemath") { post.reply("/r/theydidthemonstermath"); } then it's gone too far. There are some good, creative ones, like The Old Reddit Switch-a-roo, but they're too few and far between.

I haven’t read The Shepherds Crown and probably never will

You won't read it because then you've read everything and there'll never be any more? I assume it's not because you think you won't enjoy it.

should only reply to posts/comments when explicitly requested to

I assume you mean somelike like !remindme 4 days but then one of your examples is "half a cup of onions" and I can't see your fictional American thinking to trigger the bot - which means someone would have to reply to that person to request a bot conversion.

Similarly, there's a music IDing bot on reddit that responds to human-language questions like "whats the song" which is 100% ok with me (and the users have always been pleasantly surprised from what I've seen).

The light and auto-shutoff have both stopped working

I'm not sure I'd call that going strong 😅

Haha, I think I just had a little rant at you there even though you were saying the same things I was saying. Bad habits... I don't think I'll be on reddit much now, hopefully enough people stay around to make this place quite active still.

It should be fine - it was busy enough before the blackout, and of course all the good apps will stop working soon, along with a bunch of essential tools for modding, etc.

That's great advice. Nearly 20 years ago I found a local group through my country's Go Association website, and there are a lot more thing online now.

@[email protected] have you tried https://baduk.club/map ?