Now Shell is charging but double dipping with the ads too.

Enshittification is insatiable. There is no bottom and no end, short of destroying the entities perpetrating it.

I’ve used gloves when pumping diesel because the handle gets a lot dirtier (greasy, in fact), but given the sticker on the fuel door that’s not what’s happening here. A gasoline pump handle isn’t gross enough to bother.

There’s always a mute button. Sometimes it’s through the speaker cone.

Oh, whoops! I thought it was one of those adapter services like vger.to or threadiverse.link, not just an instance. (In other words, I thought it was an attempt to solve the problem that backfired, as opposed to not attempting at all, and that’s the only reason I commented on it.)

Never mind then; carry on.

The attempt to be instance-neutral by using a fedia.io link breaks my ability to view the post in Voyager, causing it to open a browser instead. Kind of ironic, since using my lemmy.world account to view a thread in a lemmy.world community otherwise should’ve been the simplest case to handle.

Do you have to be European?

Well, yeah. The definition of “continent” is arbitrary.

I could argue that there are only four, for instance (America, Afro-Eurasia, Antarctica, and Australia).

Funny that the tradition in France, Ireland and UK is to eat a new-world animal.

The Basque Country still belongs to Spain and Northern Ireland still belongs to the UK, so… no, I guess?

I don’t know enough about that cluster in the Balkans to even speculate on it.

god that’s stupid, sorry

Asking if terrorism works isn’t a stupid question. It’s a very impolite question (from the perspective of people in power), and maybe even heartless, but not stupid.

It’s impressive enough that, as a mod in another community, I’ve asked for an explanation instead of banning it immediately.

Pew Research being less trash than other pollsters is not the same thing as it not being trash at all.

A skit? Is that unusual?

Because they are trolls whose purpose is to actively harm everybody else. They do not deserve our tolerance.

It’s eminently topical and (unlike corporate social media) not suppressed, so what did you expect?

As for your other point, there is no good universal Lemmy linking thing for posts.

In another comment I mentioned that there’s this lemmyverse link thing. From the way you phrased that I’m not sure if you don’t know about it, or do know but just don’t think it’s good, but I think it’s about halfway to being useful.

What it needs to get the rest of the way is to:

• default to some kind of load-balanced or at least round-robin instance selection instead of defaulting to the original instance of the link given, and
• be built into the Lemmy UI(s) so that it’s easy to grab a lemmyverse.link URL to share.

IMO what we need is a different sort of thing more like load-balancing than caching, where users from outside the Fediverse (i.e. who aren’t logged in to the server whose URL they’re trying to load and thus probably don’t actually have a strong preference about which instance they actually view it from) get redirected to other instances to help spread out the load.

There’s no particular reason why the entirety of Hacker News and Reddit needs to be piling in to view this thing that was posted to !linux@lemmy.ml just because a feddit.org user happened to have been the one who wrote it (and possibly shared it).

Posts and comments already have a chain icon for the URL of the view of them on the user’s current server and a fediverse graph icon for the URL of them on the poster’s home server, but maybe there needs to be a third icon for the lemmyverse link url or something like that.

That’s not a “post from feddit.org,” that’s a “post by a feddit.org user on a lemmy.ml community.” It may be DDOSing feddit.org because that server’s view of it is the link that happened to go viral, but there’s no reason folks outside Lemmy couldn’t view it on the server it’s actually posted on, or some other third node like lemmy.world or whatever.

If you don’t like being inconvenienced, the solution is to pressure London to capitulate to the transit workers’ demands so the strike stops.

An IMO better article that explains why the radio telescope was a legitimate military target: https://en.defence-ua.com/events/ukraine_strikes_the_rt_70_radio_telescope_in_crimea_and_its_even_more_important_than_s_400_radar_loss-15674.html

¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ Take it up with the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s their definition, not mine.