In the Fediverse it isn’t possible to reserve your username. I could host a server and get something like favrion@lemmy.account so it’s unreasonable to expect that users keep the same username across instances. Reddit is more anonymous than Facebook. The Fediverse is more anonymous than Reddit.
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There is no afterlife. You reincarnate as the last person tied to the tracks. That’s how they make it infinite.
How sad it would be if responsive mobile websites die the way of WAP.
to be is an irregular verb that takes the forms am, are, and is in the present tense. to become is a different verb which has the forms become, and becomes.
It was not.
Well, using ai-generated answers to train their own ai would bring down the quality of answers and worse quality means lesser money. Don’t you want them to make any money??!!
It used to be this social media site where you could write these notes that were short enough for blue birds to carry around to everyone.
That’s incredible if ChatGPT wrote it.
Marken Sinn. Danke schön.
Well, I’m here for the fanfic about British intelligence gathering devices.
It doesn’t help if the journalists don’t mention the Fediverse as an alternative. People will move to Discord, Facebook, Threads, or Instagram because they aren’t aware. 3 out of those 4 are owned by Meta.
Finding international books is also much easier in the age of the Internet. Younger readers (the article talks about people under 35) might be savvier at researching and exploring books from different cultures.
That said, the sales of Tombs of Sand, which eventually won the Booker prize, had had a sales of just five hundred books before it was nominated. It had twenty-five thousand books sold in the nine months since. Maybe we are talking about a really small market and like the article suggested, awards embracing translations make the biggest difference.