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The keyboard

I don't know if everyone here is just a galaxy brain or what, but I'm surprised nobody has asked or explained the joke. The red bird is a CPU running lines of assembly instructions and the crow is user input causing an interrupt to press the e key. This particular type of interrupt exists because it would feel really bad if you were typing, and the text didn't show up until several seconds later when the CPU felt like processing the (hopefully) buffered input.

Quality meme op

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Community moderation policy

Can we hold off on this for a bit while things settle? I personally posted a story about investor concerns over Reddit’s blackout here because of the high visibility and because beehaw.org was blocking instances. Lo and behold they have blocked us so I guess it was a good call even though their Tech community would have been a better fit. I could have also made a new community here I suppose, but again, there’s no eyes on that.

Isn't lemmy.world literally like 15 days old? Let's not be too quick to turn this into a Discord server with 50 channels and 10 users. There's nothing wrong with piling everything in one place when there's barely any content to speak of anyways.

EDIT: I just created a new community to repost these locked posts in order of most comments:

General - Lemmy.world

Welcome to Lemmy.World General! This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse, discuss topics & ask questions that don’t seem to fit in any other community.

For server-specific announcements & questions, please see Lemmyworld, and if you’re really new to all this, check out the Newcomers community, but anything else? That’s what General’s for!

https://lemmy.world/c/general

![email protected]

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Default Communities

Hard disagree like others. Going to an instance already takes you to “Local” and “Active”, which is literally the “Default Communities” because it’s what’s active on that instance. Quit trying to fit Lemmy into a Reddit box because it‘s not always necessary.

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Has Beehaw stated why lemmy.ml and kbin.social were spared, but lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works were defederated when all four share similar growth and open registration?

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I just want to know why only some of the large communities were hit. My best guess so far from memory is lemmy.ml was struggling to stay online and federated during that time, and kbin.social had their Cloudflare DDOS protection enabled breaking federation so maybe they were not an immediate concern on the day the announcement was made. I've no clue why they have not since defederated with lemmy.ml and kbin.social since both are currently federating with everyone.

As far as refederating with Beehaw.org goes, lemmy.world is only defederated with one unrelated instance so we never actually stopped federating with them. It's just a one way street stuck in time since we get no new content.

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How do you link a lemmy community with kbin?

So first off, I am unaware of a kbin-specific magazine browser across all instances, so you will likely need to visit each kbin instance at https://fedidb.org/software/kbin to see what magazines they have you might be interested in. For comparison, Lemmy has https://browse.feddit.de/ if anyone reading this needs that.

Once you have the names of the magazines you would like to subscribe to, the easiest way I found was to just open a text file and create a bunch of lines with the following syntax:

https://[your instance]/c/[kbin magazine name]@[kbin instance]

So since you're on lemmy.world, say you wanted to subscribe to gaming on kbin.social and firefox on fedia.io. You would sign into lemmy.world, paste in the following URLs, and click subscribe:

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Do note that if you are the first person on your instance to try this, the URL will fail, and you will have to try again a bit later once your instance has had some time to make a copy of the magazine. Also, if you see a "Pending Subscription" message, in my experience, that does not resolve itself, and you will just need to try again a bit later and it will go through instantly.

If you are on a larger lemmy instance where someone has already done this legwork, odds are you can just search for them in the community browser on your particular instance. Using lemmy.world again, that would be https://lemmy.world/communities, where you can search for "gaming" and [email protected] is currently the eight result. If you search "firefox" it's the third result.