How much control/access does my instance owner haver over my account?
I noticed that there were some accounts that were hijacked by the instance owners. All the posts from that user were then edited to say what happened....
[Serious] How can a person "rejection-proof" their life?
To extrapolate:...
Is intelligence a genetic trait in any way shape or form?
What is your favorite car ?
For me is the “Fusca”(Beetle/Vocho/…) love the curvy design, something that you dont see nowadays.
How would you feel if a person you've slept with asks for money after the deed
Pretty much the title - I met a girl on Hinge, we decided to go grab a drink, then one thing left to another and we ended up sleeping together....
Cool YouTube cooking channels?
So I moved out recently and discovered I pretty much only know how to prepare scrambled eggs and smoothies....
Is it possible to burn fat without changing my weight?
I have been working a very labor intensive job for about 3 months now and have lost enough inches on my waist to go down two pants sizes yet my total weight when I go on the scale remains around the same. How is it possible that I lost 4 or 5 inches off my waist yet the scale doesn’t change? Is it possible what weight in fat I...
Are there important communities not on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml?
When someone says "games", what's the first thing that comes to mind?
For me it’s PC games, for my gf it’s tabletop games, so I was interested, what do you folks imagine as the first thing when someone says “games”?
What are your thoughts on human augmentation?
If you could alter one notable incident in history, what would be it?
I understand we don’t need wars. Anything else?...
My Lemmy feed is purely memes, where can I find text posts and discussions?
I’ve been finding myself going back to Reddit as I don’t really care for 100% memes. I used to go on Reddit to learn things and read interesting content and discussions but I’m not really finding this on Lemmy....
What is your religion and what led you to identifying with / believing in it?
to anyone who lost someone in the Ukraine War: what were they like?
Any amusing anecdotes to share with that person?
How many of you are actually chatbots?
How authentic are forums like these actually? With the rise of AI chatbots, internet interaction feels more fake than ever before. Why should I post here my opinions and thoughts, share articles etc. when probably most of you are just chatbots?
What is your favorite video game from the 90s?
You're lying down, trying to sleep. Some part of your body is itchy, scratching will wake you up, not scratching will remain itchy. Do you scratch or wait for the itch to go away?
I have this issue often. I know if I scratch, it will wake me up and take longer to sleep because of my body movement. If I don’t scratch, my mind only focuses on the itch. Sometimes I’ll wait 5 minutes for the scratch to go away and then I just cave and start scratching any minor itch I have on my body. Has anyone just not...
For those using VPS services, how do you go about keeping your data backed up?
I have been using a VPS for a while to host some personal projects and services that I have been using. Lately I have start to think to move all my git projects into it aswell. But at the moment, I’m not really sure how to go about off site backups of the data. How do you usually go about running backups on your servers?
What is a mildly funny way to answer the phone?
Im looking to get a tracker for my car. Is there one you guys can recommend?
Basically I’m looking for something that’ll help if my car happens to get stolen. Ideally it’d be something I can just set and forget, and doesn’t have a subscription....
Why is my Spotify being like this? (lemmy.world)
The song’s length is around 3 minutes, but it has been running more than 30 minutes already with nothing but silence :(
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If you followed the tradition of "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue", what did you choose for each one?
What is the best community for immoralists/nihilists/accelerationists etc.
What is the best community where people just want to see the world burn and collapse? For people who don’t believe in “progress” and “good” and “evil”?
Is it still necessary to use _ while naming files?
Edit: Thank you guys for your insightful answers!