Yes. It doesn’t outright kill an instance, but it’s definitely a major inconvenience and a learning opportunity.

It’s my understanding that this isn’t possible. Migrating domains in Lemmy is not supported though it is possible with some very hacky solutions like you’re describing. But the old domain needs to be retained indefinitely as a pointer to the new domain or it will break federation with other instances. If they lose control of the domain or can’t keep it basically forever then federation will break. They can potentially migrate users and posts, but it is effectively like resetting and starting over as a new instance.

Most of the hacky ways around it involve retaining ownership of the old domain and leaving it up indefinitely as a pointer to the new location. If your domain is taken from you though there is not much you can do.

Seriously dumb to have used this TLD considering there are a ton of choices these days.

I’m now wondering what happens if the Mali government (or someone else) begins using those domains with their own lemmy instance, potentially with malicious content.

Would the instances they’ve federated with begin ingesting and serving that content automatically? Or would that be blocked due to key mismatch?

Do you realize that boomers are the ones who literally made the Internet?

Not the ones that I work with.

I’m starting to think we just need to rebrand green energy projects to sound more like a tech concept to trick people into liking it more.

It’s not solar, it’s LightWave.

It’s going to be really difficult to get most people used to the idea of decentralized federated services.

I think a combination of 3d animation and ‘ai postprocessing’ is probably the most effective result.

As much as I respect the rights of extras, they are expensive and easier to replace than lead actors. Disney already has things setup so extras never have to be on set with your lead actors, although you get a lot of backgrounds with ‘people just walking back and forth with no purpose’, but a bit more effort will mean those prefilmed backgrounds wont even require human actors, they barely do already.

I sharewared my firmware and got malware.

I think Web 2.0 is coming to an end because we’ve seen a decade of web sites and services balloon to enormous sizes with absolutely no sustainable business model. They finally peaked with their userbase, there is nowhere else to grow. Now it’s time to start making money. So how do you do that without ruining the experience and driving everyone off to the next big thing?

Not my problem I suppose.

Flatpaks are here to stay but they can exist alongside traditional packages.

I never really cared about them tacking on a bunch of useless shit on top of Reddit. As a third-party-app and old.reddit user I kind of figured that if they monitized that piece and let me hang out in the underbelly then it wasn’t really a problem. Why not have the normies subsidize the denizens of the old reddit, it’s not like we aren’t using adblock anyway.

But now that they’ve killed off the API it’s only a matter of time before the come for old.reddit so I’m out before they get around to it.

I think you’ve just described the nature of copyright law, which is effective in some ways and ineffective in others.

I loved my Asus graphics card… Until it died.

I also loved my Asus Android tablet… Until a hardware problem that made it slower over time even after reformatting it thus eventually making it unusable. (Technically Nvidia’s fault I guess).

In theory their stuff is really great, but yeah I have definitely been burned by Asus in the past.

You’re working for the people who run the bots. Push the narrative and you’ll get paid.

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It’s it’s optional, what’s the problem if I decline?

If it’s not optional, don’t we deserve to know more information about how this data is used and stored? It’s clearly not just taking a picture.

I think there are both real and performative concerns being raised about Tik Tok as a platform.

Ideally the federal government shouldn’t be deciding this sort of thing on a per-case basis at all. Pass actual data privacy legislation and force data collection to be transparent and potentially housed in US datacenters that are subject to US regulation. Then if Tik Tok can prove it’s behaving responsibly it can continue to compete on an even playing field with other platforms.

He just wants popular and already famous people on his platform. He doesn’t understand that a well designed platform will surface that content for the people that want it. Instead he wants to jump straight to things that are already popular and then force everyone to see those things. It’s completely backwards.

Elon just wants everyone to think he’s funny and smart.

Unfortunately he’s so determined to be constantly visibly online it’s completely shattered that illusion.

Yeah we’ve had the technology to do this better than humans for decades. Machine learning would be an unnecessarily complicated solution.