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Why Lemmy is racist and will FAIL!

According to the GitHub of Lemmy, the main reason the name Lemmy was chosen was because of Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, the lead singer from MOTÖRHEAD. This is highly problematic and racist because Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister is an avid collector of Nazi paraphernalia. Social justice warriors and woke NPCs will tell you that you...

What's the value of Lemmy federation differentiation?

What I mean is, why not just a bi-directional mirror, with several servers in the larger users goes? Can the federation API be leveraged to just do that to address the dramatic load increase? Folks firing up Lemmy servers all over that only have a tiny portion of unique content are likely to provide poor experiences and stress...

My job incorrectly thinks I'm Native American, should I tell them?

I don’t want to dox myself, but I’ve been at my job for 5+ years. I guess either my boss or I fat fingered something while I was on boarding, cuz just now I was going over some paperwork and… As far as my job is concerned I’m Native American. I am very much white. Nobody ever brought it up....

If beauty is tightly associated with facial symmetry, then why doesn’t everyone have their hair part down the middle?

Edit: to clarify, I know that many short hair styles don’t have a part at all. Mostly talking about people with hair long enough to have one. I find it interesting that many studies conclude that beauty is tightly correlated with how symmetrical someone’s face is. However, many haircuts and hair styles are asymmetrical,...

How hard would it be to develop an app for Lemmy having only limited programming knowledge?

I understand how to code… To an extent. I know syntax and can solve problems given a set of tools (such as source code, functions, etc). I’ve made mods and basic programs (literally and figuratively), but I’ve never messed with internet stuff other than networking and mostly on the hardware side....

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