Personally I’m fine with paid apps here, lots of people use tailscale for example. I think the larger issue is the drive-by spamming without contributing outside of their own promotion thread.

I like the comment elsewhere in this thread referencing a subreddit that requires X comments over Y days in the community first.

Once a user on the remote instance subscribes, all posts are replicated over as they’re made. Not at the the time of request.

The point is that it redirects you to the post on your personal interest.

You can also paste that into the search of any lemmy instance to find it, if they mirrored it

It’s just a convenience service. Your original url is right there in the path if it were to go down, and it’s open source if you want to run your own.

There’s no other way currently to do it

Use https://lemmyverse.link/

They’re chilling and happy.

They should hang out a while first and not have only posts promoting their software, and not only have comments in those threads.

The lemmy attitude is very anti commercialization, and they don’t know any better. That doesn’t mean we should allow it.

I think new accounts that show up to shil their app should be banned. They’re not actively participating in the community, it’s just spam. There’s been a huge uptick recently.

Not quite open hardware, but it’s minimal compute - https://www.slate.auto/

Thor buddy, is that you?

No, it’s not a per instance choice unless you go and edit the code. Deleting a post hides the whole thing but comments are still available via a user profile.

My taxes have here in Vancouver Canada.

He’s definitely more known for It Wasn’t Me.

You think that’s air you’re breathing now?

The Bear

Dudes dying, can’t blame him for wanting to enjoy what time he has left and not deal with bs politics.

My dog has watched parts of Planet Earth

No, they’re not hurting for cash and everyone is dealing with crazy hardware pricing right now.

Huh I had no idea we’re not allowed to feed crows.

I got dive bombed years ago one summer, after which I started bribing the crows with peanuts from my balcony. I started by just putting them on my railing, backing away and letting them see me as they grabbed them. Now they’re used to me and let me get pretty close, or come hang out when I’m out there.

They’ve got babies out front of my building this week and show no interest in me or my dog, but I see them bombing other people regularly.

Have you ever noticed how all the vampire lore is based around Europe, but never in Africa?

It’s because they bless the rains down in Africa.