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Why are there what looks like Lemmy comments attached to what looks like a Reddit post…?

Out of curiosity, for reference, could you cite official documentation and/or source code for where that functionality is defined?

I wonder if a heart could still beat/function when it's unrolled in this way 🤔

[…] lemmy is a bunch of teenagers […]

The average age of lemmings has actually been found to be around late 30s ^[1][2].

I've never understood the "bug conspiracy". Let's assume that there is a movement of people that wants everyone to eat bugs, and let's ignore any pros or cons about their consumption. How would that affect one's life? Without legislation mandating it's use (which I'd wager would be illegal, anyways — unless, ofc, there was a large enough majority of people in a democratic country who are in favor of forcing bugs on everyone to overrule said laws), one couldn't be forced to consume it; those who'd want to consume it will consume it, and those who don't won't. Where exactly is the issue?

I assumed that was there because there are some sites (e.g. reuters.com) that make it difficult to automatically grab a thumbnail image to go with the article. So if you're posting a link to somewhere like there, you'd find a relevant image manually, and use that field so the post you make will be more engaging.

So are you saying that it only works for posts that are sharing a URL?

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This might be tricky, given that Lemmy is federated ^[1]; there's no guarantee that deletions will be federated to all instances — eg an instance could defederate from the rest of the network after your content's been pushed to it.

If you don't mind answering, out of curiosity, why do you want to mass delete your old comments?

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Plus I cringe at the thought of 75% of the CBC budget being spent on content moderation.

Theoretically, could they outwardly federate only? For example, they make a post which gets pushed out to other instances, but they would set their instance to not allow any external posts or comments to be federated into their instance, and they could close registrations. That way, the rest of the Fediverse could follow and interact with their content, and they wouldn't have to deal with moderation. I'm not sure if that's really how federation works, so please correct any inaccuracies.

I don't really understand why people are downvoting this post. I think this might be a symptom of the, imo, rather nebulous interpretation of the use of upvotes and downvotes.

[…] treat each Lemmy community as a community, not an audience.

I think it depends on the community in question, and the nature of the post. If, for example, one is looking for an answer to a question, or help with something, I would argue that one would, generally, want to target the largest relevant audience to maximize the surface area of potential people who can help. At any rate, more specifically, I don't think it's one or the other, but rather both — one would want to find the largest and the most relevant community. By my experience, another common behavior is to cross-post to multiple communities. This seems to be especially more common in a federated forum like Lemmy where there could be any number of duplicate communities.