How is this walled-garden behavior? There is no centralized database of Minetest accounts.

The Explain XKCD for this comic is gold.

However birds do not use GPS to navigate, [citation needed]

Wiser words have never been spoken.

I hate that it constantly plays advertisements for itself. Like, I’m already listening to you, I don’t need to be informed that you exist.

You would be able to find them if every instance didn’t decide to defederate with Threads.

How would federation with Threads have any effect on the usability of a Mastodon instance?

Terminally online people often get the feeling that everyone except a hateful minority agrees with them, when in reality they’re part of a secluded echo chamber.

What is ridiculous about it? What do you see as the difference between moderation and censorship?

I’m not citing the author to add credibility, just to give credit.

Moderation is when you take down material because the recipient doesn’t want to see it. Censorship is when you take down content because you don’t want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it.

— vintermann, Hacker News

I find it disappointing that everyone says how the Fediverse will allow all kinds of social media, personal blogs and other things to be interconnected, but in the end it kinda sorta works for Twitter clones and barely works for anything else.

You literally said “instead of algorithms”, implying that algorithms would be replaced.

But SearxNG doesn’t have the nice features like bangs, redirects, changing the priority of domains, custom CSS, lenses, etc.

Kagi has clearly stated that the AI features will always be optional and the engine is designed to be useful without them.

It does not give the exact answer, only an approximation.

The two-tier reply system on SO is really useful and would be harder to implement – the replies to the questions, but also replies to the posts/replies. I don’t know how that would look if starting from Lemmy as a base.

How so? Lemmy allows unlimited nesting of replies, which is even better.

Not if the language is standardized from the start.

An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.

Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.

Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.

Do you also urge your e-mail provider to block e-mails from Meta for all users?