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To share from your home instance the post would need to be recreated on that instance, so a new community with the same name would need to be created with it.

That is essentially what already happens, when you subscribe to a community from another instance, it creates a community on your instance with the same metadata (sidebar contents, icon, etc) and appends the @instance.tld suffix to the end of it. Your instance then sends a message to the original instance saying "Add me to your mailing list for posts/comments/votes/moderator actions for this community". When you're viewing comments and posts from a remote instance, you're viewing the copy of it that your instance has (hence why post and comment IDs are not global - they are unique to your instance), its not fetched in real time.

After one of those new actions gets added to the original community's instance, it replicates that action to all instances that have at least one subscriber to the community. It also works in reverse, when you cast a vote, reply, etc your instance sends that action to the original one so that all (subscribed) instances have a copy of it.

If I were to say, block all IPs on my server except for my own IP, I'd still be able to view this post because my instance's database has a copy of it, I just wouldn't receive anything new on it. This has been noted as a potential issue for deleting data and following various regulations, because if you were to delete this comment after I took my server offline (or changed Lemmy's code to not honor deletions), I'd still be able to see your comment because my instance never got the signal that you deleted it - there is no way to guarantee deletion of content on the Fediverse for this reason.

This is also why every now and then you get "vote drift" where the votes on comments and posts aren't in sync, because the signal that a new vote was casted didn't make it to your instance for some reason. Or if someone comments from an instance that yours is defederated from (but the original hosting instance isn't defederated from) your instance won't show those comments, but if you go to the original instance (or even the one from the instance that was defederated) it will show up.

Ahh that would explain it then, that's going to take some time to retrain my muscle memory on closing Firefox then 😅

It's pretty rare that I use wired headphones, I prefer them wireless.

I'm told that wired headphones have higher range audio support, but it's not like the music I stream from Spotify would support that anyways...

This is the stated reason why Microsoft uses their proprietary wireless standard for Xbox controllers (which have Bluetooth, but not for the Xbox console itself) and headsets - but I haven't had latency issues using bluetooth headphones on my PC.

Now, I know that in a lot of cases, Bluetooth doesn't have the bandwidth necessary to do high quality bidrectional audio - so it can't receive and send audio (microphone) without falling back to a very low quality profile, which results in cruddy audio. Not sure if this is an issue that has been fixed though. If not, I can't imagine anyone would want to game and participate in voice chat using that as it sounds horrible.

There is a "Your movies & TV" section which points to the store though they should probably rename it to just "Movies & TV" like it is on mobile (which is definitely obnoxious to find on there, you have to click the compass icon).

You can't access your purchases on a brand account because those are not technically the same as your Google account after the fiasco from Google attempting to merge accounts a long time ago.

I can't think of any that would trigger the issue (I don't actually use a lot of privacy oriented extensions, uBlock Origin probably being the only one most people would consider as such), and I remember the issue going back pretty far before I started using extensions in general.

There's no "proper" way to close Firefox right? Just close the window itself? Sounds silly, but that is the only thing I could think of over the last few years when I tried to use it.

Odd, it might be an instance level issue potentially. Or rather, an issue between slrpnk and the server that hosts the channel you're trying to subscribe to.

I just subscribed over to the channel I linked in my original reply, and while my server didn't know about it before, it is already starting to pull in videos it seems.

For some reason, I've never been able to get pinned tabs to actually persist. I'll pin the tabs, and then when I shut down Firefox and bring it back up later, the tabs are randomly gone / no longer pinned for some reason.

Yes, you can bring up a channel as if its a community by searching it on Lemmy, for example !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com - then each video will be its own post, and commenting on the post will forward the comment to PeerTube!

If the channel isn't already "known" by your instance however, you may have to wait until a new video is posted before it is visible to Lemmy.

Can also confirm, never had an issue with my Stadia controller under Linux. On Windows, I use a tool called reWASD but I don't actually believe you need it for using it wired, just wireless.

Just to note, you don't need to completely switch distros. I'm pretty sure Ubuntu hasn't outright removed X.org, so you can just switch at the login screen with the gear icon at the lower right corner when entering your password.

For some reason I always thought the Android mascot's name was "Andy", but I can't remember where I had heard that from.

I definitely like Andy over bugdroid though...