boring in comparison, Celadon City is truly one of the greatest melodies I know of in any game

Celadon City from the Pokémon games

~1 minute here in Austria, usually it takes longer to find the right room than to wait in line when I’ve found it

That last paragraph doesn’t work in a secret ballot system.

What language is “Fiorenza”? The city you mean is called Firenze in Italian.

exactly me, I tried to get into Twitter a few times in the late 2000s and 2010s, but never could really see the use of it; nowadays I am a regular reader of Mastodon

Reddit meanwhile I have been active on (sometimes more, sometimes less, on different accounts) since 2014, so I can’t post a top-level answer here. I still enjoy forum-style communities like on Lemmy more than I enjoy microblogs, so post a lot more here than on Mastodon, but I read both regularly.

John Perry Barlow was right

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

KDE Plasma because I can make it look, feel and work mostly like Windows. I have to use Windows at work and don’t want to have to think too hard about differences between computers I use at work vs. at home.

similar in Austria, if there’s a crosswalk within 25 meters, you have to use it although even that law has an exemption “this doesn’t apply if traffic allows it without doubt and vehicle traffic isn’t impaired”

Hint: most trams in Vienna are 35 meters long, so you can cross at the other end of a tram stop if there’s a crosswalk only on one end.

Try to establish a proper western-style liberal democratic system and culture in Russia. They have a constitution that is nominally liberal democratic, but they are so used to authoritarian rule that they can’t really manage to keep it that way.

A full sentence (including a question) ought to, at the very least, have a verb in it.

I have never heard or read that name before, so I think absolutely nothing about that person. I am going to look it up after saving this comment.

The more time passes, the more information can already be found on the web (including forum threads) and the less need there is to post new threads to these kinds of forums.

Are you familiar with Debian and how its versions are named?

I can’t blame people given how many parts of the Internet now engage in automated or semi-automated intransparent censorship. Can’t have the general public communicating freely with each other, they might coordinate a revolution or something. So far I trust the fediverse to be relatively immune from that though.

Another example of this phenomenon is that, last I checked, all or most of the articles about individual Israeli settlements on en.wikipedia had, very near the top, a sentence like “the international community considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this”. This is literally about right, but the article about one individual settlement wouldn’t become less accurate or informative if it were left out. No such thing as neutrality on contentious issues.

Just shows that there’s no such thing as neutrality on anything contentious (wikis are in any case systemically unsuitable for contentious issues). Even when and how often to mention indisputably true things can be a form of taking sides.

I want Lemmy to grow. I want federated ActivityPub-based communities to eventually be the general public’s default way of asking and answering questions, sharing information however obscure, i.e. replace not just reddit, but most web forums, Facebook groups, etc. too. I have liked things based on open standards for all my life, and will never stop wanting them to be widely adopted.

Eventuell willst du meine (discuss.tchncs.de) einmal ansehen?

No, this isn’t how this works. Each instance manages its own users in its own database. All that is federated is the posts and comments. You should be able to post and comment to other instances’ communities but if you want an account on another instance you have to create one.