This Bluesky user said it brilliantly.

So if you add carrots into concrete with poop, it will become even more stronger?

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/08/09/carrots-concrete-stronger-lancaster-university-technology/

Concrete mixtures could be strengthened by adding nanoparticles extracted from carrots and other root vegetables, research currently underway at England’s Lancaster University suggests.

Preliminary tests by the university’s engineers found that “nano platelets” sourced from the fibres of these vegetables “significantly improved” the strength of concrete — and at a low cost.

So this FediHood looks like to be similar to Jodel, “the hyperlocal community” app that is popular here in Finland, or Yik Yak that served as its inspiration. Good thing! Some time ago I thought that a Fediverse version of that app would be great. Might as well try to establish some Finnish prescence on FediHood, because why not?

By the way, that markdown link isn’t working, I am getting an error page on my home instance.

This is how I would look at said bro.

I doubt whether the members of ZZ Top have real beards.

Ubisoft just keeps shitting on its baguettes, and the Guillemot brothers think it’s a good thing.

Same. It’s like 12-year-old’s ideas of what’s dark and edgy (but not too dark and edgy for radio play and middle-aged dads) packed into a marketable format.

Given the band’s target audience, that isn’t much of a surprise.

At least when it comes to Meta, I have nothing to delete. In 2021 I deleted my WhatsApp and in 2022 deleted my Facebook account that wasn’t used for over a year anyways.

David Cross is a great stand-up comedian.

I’ve been enjoying the last glimpses of summer with my friends. Really good weather to hang around in parks. I haven’t done anything really technical, apart from gamepad modding. And Sopuli is doing fine, one less thing to worry about.

I bet they’re blaming the ongoing COVID pandemic for every nuisance there is for the next ten years. And by pandemic I mean lockdowns and other mitigations, not the virus itself.

I am getting some good vibes from the sopuli.xyz instance over the last months. Also some good quality memes. Why is that so?

As an instance admin, I have to admit that I have no idea. I made clear rules to follow, appointed enough moderators for communities and made sure that any content against the rules gets removed. And of course made sure that this instance’s performance is at a good level. I do my job. One reason could be that as a smaller instance, Sopuli stays out of any big drama that has been going on with the biggest Lemmy instances.

But otherwise, I’d like to hear how the users answer this question.

But Trump and Jong-Un already “fell in love” several years ago! Shouldn’t they just marry already? https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/30/trump-kim-jong-un-fell-in-love-west-virginia-rally-bts-vpx.cnn

Okay, I say that is a lot more concise definition for what you’re aiming for. When a website declares to be for “free speech”, it carries a certain connotation these days. Look what Twitter has become after it got bought by Elon Musk and turned into a “free speech website” for example. And good that a line has been drawn so that bigotry isn’t allowed.

What is your definition of free speech?

What?

It was about the database having corrupted data, and the best option turned out to restore from an earlier backup. Luckily the database is backed up automatically twice a day.

Regarding the decision, it’s quite a stretch to claim @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz being a Nazi. The idea was criticism towards Israel, and apparently it got misinterpreted as antisemitism.

Looks like I have to explain what’s the reasoning behind the rule 3. I didn’t want to make a long list of exact kind of behaviors and organizations that are not allowed on Sopuli and clutter the sidebar. Instead I listed several known bad movements so that the users could get a good picture of what kinds of people are not wanted here. Nazis, incels and QAnon, they all share a really warped and hostile view of the world that is black-and-white, and violence has been associated with all of them. And “similar whackos” can be found by looking at what the ADL and CDDH for example list as hate groups.

I don’t think I use the word “Nazi” in a too broad sense like on Lemmygrad or Hexbear. In those places a Nazi can be anyone supporting Ukraine or a social democrat for example.

Thank you for everything!