This is the objective scientific answer, OP.

The Fripp collaborations also merit your attention.

Yeah, that got a double-take out of me too. Hell, “Lord Pickles” alone is quite the concept to be reminded of in itself.

Forget the forensics guys, if he keeps this up they’ll be prepping the rubber hose and dentistry tools guys.

Maybe ISPs is an okay comparison? Most of us are on different ISPs but we access the same internet.

It’s probably more productive to just ignore the technical details. Half the country seems to believe they’re buying “wi-fi” nowadays.

Just stick with “try Mastodon” or “try Lemmy” and let the non-technical folk build whatever mental model suits them best.

Just for the record: the Sun ended Page 3 in 2015.

No “it was a different time” excuses wash yet.

Okay, that’s fair, they do have another scandal to weather (contrived though it appears). Sorry, I thought I read a slight undertone of “filthy BBC got anuvver nonce innit” :)

I’ve still got no idea who people think it is.

Nor do I care to, because it ain’t remotely sodding important.

Seems like the BBC may have another one on their hands.

Another… what, exactly? Rude, unpleasant person who happens to be either gay or bi? (I think I get this message from the reporting, but I’m not certain that I’ve specifically seen the gender of the original “young person” mentioned now that I think about it)

This is such an obviously confected story to fling shit at the BBC. It disappoints me that so many otherwise articulate and sensible people seem to be swallowing it hook line and sinker.

Damned filth.

I had a Panda

No.

There’s no need for monoculture - especially on a platform that aims to be decentralised.

Look at it this way - if some town has three gay bars, three metal pubs and three old-man real-ale pubs, it’s not an issue for the LGBT community, the metal community or the drunk old men; they’re just different places to drink. Possibly the drunk gay old metal fans might get confused, but they sound awesome and are likely welcome everywhere.

…actually, thinking about it, I bet the drunk old men probably do have an issue with all eight of the other pubs they don’t go to. But that’s just them.

I think you’re pretty much on the money as far as sources go (and on the matter of letting things grow organically while it’s still a small community) - something specific about multiple posts though:

When news breaks, it’s exciting, and everyone wants to post. This can mean discussions getting fragmented.

I think @Noit@lemm.ee or @NuPNuA@lemm.ee has been in touch with you about long-running megathreads already - in the politics sphere, at least, these do tend to absorb a lot of the “oh god what’s Suella done now” and “but why can’t we election now boohoo” chatter. That in turn tends to mean that little things and breaking news naturally gravitate into them, which helps keeps things tidy.

As an added bonus, as a community grows, they also serve a really useful purpose in letting people form a picture of who the people on the other side of the screen are, and keep the pixels humanised, if you see what I mean - which is particularly important when discussing Serious Business like politics, of course.

So in conclusion, I think you should do megathreads in the politics space; thank you for attending my Thread Talk.

Please don’t be too principled as long as the tools and community to back up those principles aren’t in place.

I very much agree with this, @sunaurus@lemm.ee - your stance above is, I think, exactly as a stated policy should be, but please do remember that plans and reality must meet somewhere along the way. If you overthink things or cleave too religiously to the rules you’ve set yourself, you risk taking too long to act, and it’s exactly this delay between problem and reaction that bad actors exploit.

Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face, basically. Lemm.ee is a great instance, and we’d all, I think, love to see it stay that way 🙂

I’m assuming they aren’t close enough to just run some cat6 between both houses and have a single instance govern them?

I’ll be honest though, although your plan sounds cool as fuck, it also sounds like a really terrifying project from a security perspective.

How well would the converse fly? i.e. Mastodon accounts in a Lemmy timeline.

For my money: yes, you should use an IDE or something like one, but not because you’re “missing out” - rather, because a plain text editor will limit your progress.

There are (still!) people around who think it’s some sort of badge of honour to only use text editors, but in reality, this means they miss the syntax errors and typoes that we all make because we are human, and end up wasting hours looking for them when an IDE would let them see them.

You wouldn’t turn up at a cookery school saying “I’m still a beginner, so I’m only going to use this pair of scissors” - specialised knives and utensils are part of the chef’s toolkit, and becoming a better chef is just as much about learning to use them effectively as it is about memorising recipes. It’s the same with programming.