That would be rather clever!
turtle
joined 7 months ago
Elon has two left feet!
I get that reference. Holy shit!
Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don't think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don't know how that works on sites that currently do this though.
Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?
No, but I don't think that's what we're talking about. The references to Reddit are secondary, I think. We're talking about how to improve Lemmy by having the place not be littered with a high proportion of dead communities.
Yes, and I think it would benefit Lemmy in general if all instance admins did a clean up. Start by deleting all communities that have been around for a while but have never had any posts.
Edit: there are plenty of those. Look through /communities on your own instance to get an idea and try all the different sorts. I see many communities with several subscribers but 0 posts.
This group sounds great. Unfortunately, I don't read Finnish. Is there an equivalent group in English anywhere on Lemmy?
I bought something off Ebay, and sure enough it came from Amazon anyway. I guess they either dropped shipped or they fulfill their orders.
Argh, this drives me crazy! I went to ebay and was willing to pay more to avoid Amazon, but the stuff comes from Amazon anyway. I'm pretty sure this is just 3rd-party sellers drop-shipping stuff. I don't believe ebay sells anything themselves.
Anyway, I finally figured out that anything being sold new on ebay with only stock photos for a higher price than amazon has a very high likelihood of being cross-shipped from amazon and the seller is pocketing the difference (minus ebay fees?). Either look for non-stock photos, prices less than 5-10% higher than Amazon, or ideally both to avoid this.
A couple of times that I fell for this I made it a point to return the products for a refund. I didn't give the sellers a negative review because I figured that it's just some poor slob trying to eek out a living, but I came close.
I don't watch sports much, but I think I've heard multiple times of certain games being played locally not being available at all on TV due to black outs. I could be wrong though.
The best I can think of off hand is to look at the mobile apps that are designed to interact with traditional forums, because they will have directories of all the ones that are integrated with them. For example, Tapatalk and Fora Communities. You should be able to find thousands of forums categorized in those apps? I've never used these apps myself, but have heard of them.