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For #3, as far as the instance lists and the Lemmy Community Browser are concerned, I believe a 301 redirect should work as long as it redirects with the URI. e.g. old.lemmy.tld/c/Hangout -> new.lemmy.tld/c/Hangout . Eventually my new instance will be picked up by those, but I'm still not sure if/when my old instance would drop off (see question #1)

That would allow anyone clicking into my old instance from any of the currently published instance lists to land on the new domain. But I'm not sure how currently federated instances would handle that.

Well, you see, that would fall under the "well regulated" part of the 2A which always seems to be ignored.

Even worse, the fancy smart display doesn't even have to physically break to become inoperable.

Most smart devices connect and are locked to a single company's servers and become e-waste the moment they decide to pull the plug.

If you're lucky, you or a techy friend can flash an open firmware to them, but that's not always possible.

If you meant instance admins, is there any particular customization? Mine has a unique name but the PWA still created the launcher as "Lemmy"

I'm assuming that's coming from a static value in the served manifest.json but I haven't really investigated or thought about the launcher name until you mentioned it.

I joined, but I'm definitely going to be a lurker. It's not a hobby I ever got into, but I enjoy seeing other people show off their work.

Right, exactly. And that got me thinking: what counts as a view?

Do you have to click play and watch it or does it count as a view if it shows up in your feed and you scroll past it? I'm leaning toward the latter, but I don't have any knowledge of how Twitter's metrics work (if there is even any logic to them, that is).

I definitely agree that it wasn't anywhere near 16m unique people, so I do feel a little better about our species. lol

the saddest part is that he still got over 16M views already

For the sake of my faith in humanity, is there any chance Musk might have had his thumb on the scale there?

It might be shocking to hear, but most places could have nice things like this if the majority of people would get out and vote. I could not be happier for Minnesotans.

I work in IT, and Jurassic Park (novel) was a big influence.

Basically it taught me to not assume any system or process is infallible and to always expect the unexpected.

I'm pretty sure the slip started back in 1954 when 'under god' was added to the pledge of allegiance. We've managed to keep it mostly limited to that until relatively recently, but their foot has been in the door for decades.

To expand on that, I do a join between the local_user and person tables so I can grab the name and display names for the local users:

select 
  p.name, 
  p.display_name, 
  a.person_id, 
  a.email, 
  a.email_verified, 
  a.accepted_application 
from 
  local_user a, 
  person p 
where 
  a.person_id = p.id;

Do you run your own Firefox sync service or use Mozilla's?

I've wanted to set my own sync up but never got around to it. The few times I've skimmed over the setup process, it looked pretty rough.