Indeed. Cal almost stealing MVP from Judge last year was annoying, so I can’t help but enjoy his recent downfall in the eyes of fans. But it’s also quite dumb tbh, people really overreacted to the WBC drama.
Regardless, he was way too close in the voting for MVP and he will probably never sniff 50+ HRs in a season again. Even 40 seems like a stretch given his 2nd best season was a 34 spot.
Never forget what they took from us
#remember_doggerland
Everything we think we know about the goddess Ériu (and Irish mythology in general) was written down within the past 1000 years by Christian monks. They purported to be recording the oral mythology of the Irish people, but it’s hard to say how much of it was a faithful transcription and how much was invented/reworked by the monks to fit into a Christian/Greco-Roman worldview.
The etymological root of Ireland as a place name ultimately derives from ancient Greek sources, which obviously predate such mythology by over 1000 years.
The name Ériu has been derived from reconstructed Archaic Irish *Īweriū, which is related to the ethnic name Iverni. The University of Wales derives this from Proto-Celtic *Φīwerjon- (nominative singular Φīwerjō). This is further derived from Proto-Indo-European *piHwerjon- (“fertile land” or “land of abundance”), from the adjective *piHwer- “fat” (cognate with Ancient Greek píeira and Sanskrit pīvara, “fat, full, abounding”).
The Archaic Irish form was borrowed into Ancient Greek as Ἰέρνη Iernē and Ἰουερνία Iouernia, and into Latin Hibernia.
So, even ignoring the fact that a mythical goddess is not equivalent to a human woman, Ireland wasn’t named after a goddess either.
They do have a history of removing threads and posts that get too popular though. I remember several incidents where highly upvoted comments and posts about Lemmy got removed for seemingly no reason.
It’s probably impossible for them to entirely prevent discussion about Lemmy so they instead astroturf and try to manipulate the discussion to portray the platform in a bad light. It seems to be an extremely effective tactic, unfortunately for us.
Reddit’s obfuscation of upvotes and downvotes is problematic, and makes it trivial for them to manipulate any discussion if they feel like it. Not to mention their ability to just nuke anything they don’t like with no repercussions.
Indeed.
Although the private voting feature isn’t all that effective. First of all it doesn’t work with trusted instances (which includes many of the big ones), and secondly it only obscures the voter identity, it doesn’t completely randomize it.
See these posts for context.
https://piefed.social/post/408115#post_replies
https://piefed.social/post/205362#comment_2496068
I don’t necessarily think these limitations are a bad thing, because totally private voting could theoretically be a vector for bad actors to manipulate the visibility of content on the fediverse. This solution provides some protection for the average user but also makes it possible for admins to identify vote manipulation if it becomes a problem.
It’s another type of content aggregator like Lemmy and Mbin. Totally unique software, not just an app.
It’s not as well known because it only started development a little over a year ago, well after the APIcalypse when most of the Lemmy userbase came over from reddit. But it’s been improving rapidly and already has a lot of innovative features that Lemmy lacks. I believe that one of those features is better compatibility with Mastodon, but I’m not entirely sure. It’s also written in Python which makes it easy for a variety of developers to contribute if they so wish.
The fediverse really do be like that sometimes.
But seriously, this is very cool and I love to see people being creative and sharing things like this. I saw your earlier post about this and it seemed like a great idea.
Also Piefed is awesome and it’s great to see more people discovering and talking about it.
I mean, you could mention the fediverse to people you know IRL and get them to join.
But I’ve only done that a handful of times, quite ineffectively, so I can’t presume to judge you.
Ok cool. Tfw there are so many great apps for Lemmy but you can only use one at a time 😔
Mother of God, I did not realize that he’s pushing 70k comments.
Btw are you just joking or isn’t there actually a tool that checks Lemmy profiles and gives a neat little scorecard with some stats? I remember reading a thread where someone linked it but that was a while ago.
I’m not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people away from truly revolutionary platforms.
Of course it has to seem like a plausible alternative, but is it actually decentralized or altruistic enough to make a meaningful difference? I think not.
I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it’s understandable that he didn’t. Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.
But beggars can’t be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.
I agree, I think Lemmy should add an option to fetch all the historical posts from a remote community. Right now it just starts federating from when the first person subscribes to that community, but it would be better if it was retroactive.
Wow, TIL.
I based that off fedidb but it seems to be very inaccurate. Obviously it wasn’t tracking until a certain point in Lemmy development.
I’ll make a list of the major instances from before the APIcalpyse of June 2023 that are still active. For the Lemmy historians 🧐. I’m mostly basing this by the top admin account on each server, because the admins are listed in order of seniority in the sidebar.
Honorable mention to feddit.de which was an early instance too IIRC and now lives on in feddit.org
This is largely just an interesting piece of trivia, but also somewhat notable because servers generally don’t federate content from before they were founded. So the older servers will have local copies of posts and comments from the early days of Lemmy.
For instance @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz actually has 2.37k posts and 1.73k comments. But sh.itjust.works only caches about 850/800 posts/comments from that account, because we only joined the network in June 2023.
Surely has to be https://sopuli.xyz/
The admin is a Finn, although the servers are technically in Germany.
Also it’s extra cool because it’s one of the true OG Lemmy servers, founded in June 2021.
All centralized services. The fediverse is theoretically resistant to that kind of process.
Also you forgot Limewire, the GOAT
Finally, I have been waiting for this.
Lemm.ee over 4,000 MAUs. Lemmy.ca and lemmy.dbzer0.com up to 1.5k after hovering around 1k for most of 2024. All of the major servers seeing solid growth. Good work lemmings, keep it up
Snowrunner is dope, on god fr fr
Also welcome to Lemmy if you’re new! Or even if you’re not, thank you for your contribution 🫡
It’s not better than Middle Earth. But it is very cool. I need to reread, I’ve only read it once and that was over a decade ago.
The Amazon show was so disappointing but kinda inspired me to read the books again. It’s just such a daunting task to get started 😅
Haha but at some point it was reported that Cal already informed Randy before the game that he wasn’t doing the whole shaking hands thing, and Randy still decided to go for it anyway. So that kinda flipped my perspective on the situation. But it’s completely insignificant anyway.
The main thing is the Mariners are back where they belong. Disappointing fans since 1977TM