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Were lemmy.word admins invited by Meta to the P92/Threads "off the record" meeting?

So I saw a recent post on lemmy from admins of another instance, forgive me for not remembering which, where they posted a full transparency update on Meta requesting a meeting with the admins of that instance. The admins declined, and then shared the correspondence with their community via screenshots of the original email from...

Did Folding@HOME or other distributed computing projects actually make a significant difference in the creation of COVID vaccines?

Like many, when I heard about Folding@HOME and how I could contribute to the fight against COVID, I put my hardware to work. Now that’s it has been a while, what effect did those projects ultimately have on the outcome? Did it actually help with the creation of vaccines, or was it effectively just a massive waste of energy?

Grade A ebay trolling

I heard today a hilarious story about a person trolling an ebay seller. The item was listed with a £10 target price, which the person thought was not going to be offered, so made an offer of £5. The seller replied with £7.50. Okey then, my offer is now £4.50. The item did not sell. The following week the item was listed...

Github app browser

For some reason, I recall seeing an app that let you browse android apps available on github. It doesn’t make sense considering github isn’t a repository or anything, but I can’t shake the feeling that I saw what essentially equates to F-droid but for all github android apps. Am I crazy or did this exist? If it’s a...

What does defederating from Meta's Threads.net actually accomplish?

Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a...

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