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Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?

Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?

I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has....

Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?

Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network...

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)

The Worst Feature Apple Ever Made (www.theatlantic.com)

Non-paywall link: 12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/…/679359/

What can I say, I didn't want to wait on my provider lol (lemmy.world)

It was also actually pretty fun!

DNC chair says majority of delegates have voted to give Harris the Democratic nomination (www.nbcnews.com)

The vice president’s campaign says she has won the nomination, but the results will not be official until Monday....

The TERF propaganda machine has already superspreaded the boxer's Imane Khelif's Olympics row is about trans identification. In fact she appears to be born woman with DSDs (thepinknews.com)

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s participation at the Paris 2024 Olympics is “not a transgender issue”, a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Khelif beat Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday (1 August), in a fight that has reignited an online storm about her participation in the Games, despite...

Braid Anniversary Edition has ‘sold like dog sh*t’, creator Jonathan Blow says (www.videogameschronicle.com)

Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow (www.eurogamer.net)

Finally, on 27th July, Blow noted the “whole industry is having a hard time” and then, when asked how many of his development team are working on the compiler for programming language Jai, Blow replied: “None, because we can’t afford to pay anyone because the sales are bad.”...

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid - Stable Release (vanillaos.org)

Man dies at 27 from heat exposure at a Georgia prison, lawsuit says (apnews.com)

The Georgia sun scorched the slab of concrete beneath Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano’s body when nurses found him in a puddle of his own excrement, vomiting, according to a complaint....

Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying and chemical fertilizers are in part to blame (apnews.com)

When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. That has dwindled to 30. He says his once fertile soil has become a nearly lifeless field that no longer earns him a living....

New Samsung phones block sideloading by default (www.androidauthority.com)

Windows 11 (lemmy.world)

TIL psychedelics supposedly work by desynchronizing the brain (www.nature.com)

New youtube layout? (lemmy.world)

Hey, I was browsing youtube in private mode, and out of nowhere it started looking like this, I really hope this doesn’t go through lolol…...

I'm confused... why do even Democrats seem conflicted on Kamala Harris as a replacement of Joe Biden?

As far as I can tell, different faces, but same old, same old… I mean, literally anyone is better than Biden at the job, considering age…...

Botanists vote to remove racist references from plants’ scientific names (www.theguardian.com)

Plant names are only a part of the taxonomic controversy, however. Naming animals after racists, fascists and other controversial figures cause just as many headaches as those posed by plants, say scientists. Examples include a brown, eyeless beetle which has been named after Adolf Hitler. Nor is Anophthalmus hitleri alone. Many...