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Does anyone know what this is? (imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nickajeglin@lemmy.one to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I found this buried in my garden. It's steel, with some flecks of galvanization still visible here and there. Definitely stamped from sheet stock originally, the ring is welded, and it's especially interesting to me that the right "foot" of the little "table" cutout is narrower than the left one, as if it's keyed to connect to something in a single direction.

Ideas so far:

livestock tag (we live near ooold stockyards)
cremains tag (spooky)
key fob/id (but why the welded ring?)

Does anyone know what it really is?

Edit: in retrospect maybe this isn't the right community for this? I'm not sure "what is this thing" qualifies as open ended, but I also really want to know the answer.

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There actually doesn't even seem to be a way to subscribe to a new community on Jerboa.

But yeah, I'm no software expert but I imagine implementing a way to automatically direct someone to a community on their own instance by say typing "!whatisthisthing@lemmy.ml". Right now I mostly see people linking directly to instance where the community is hosted, which is not user-friendly, might overload servers, and defeats the purpose of federation. Hopefully something will be implemented soon.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a little odd. On the desktop site, I can search "https://lemmy.ml/c/whatisthisthing" or "!whatisthisthing@lemmy.ml", then I get no results, wait about 2 minutes, search again, and it'll pop up so I can join it. On Jerboa, I can search and search and it never opens.

If a community is already on your instance though, I think you can open the sidebar and subscribe from there.