I realise this is a known issue and that lemmy.world isn’t the only instance that does this. Also, I’m aware that there are other things affecting federation. But I’m seeing some things not federate, and can’t help thinking that things would be going smoother if all the output from the biggest lemmy instance wasn’t 50%...
While clicking through some random Lemmy instances, I found one that’s due to be shut down in about a week — dmv.social. I’m trying to archive what I can onto the Wayback Machine, but I’m not sure what the most efficient way to go about it is....
Maybe a plug-in for Lemmy server could be developed to automatically back up and / or restore instances from Arweave. Some protocol could be used to turn the instances into Json, which could then be uploaded as documents and parsed, or something like that. And then the Json could then be potentially restored. There might be many pages for a large instance, but they could perhaps be organized in a thoughtful and functional way.
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Tuesday that US crime statistics are “only” going up. In fact, most US crime numbers went down last year – and the decreases included one of the largest national declines in murder ever recorded....
I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness (www.theguardian.com)
Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers (www.bbc.com)
GitHub Is Not Open Source, A Rant (listed.to)
After Decades of Imprisoning Patients, Idaho Approves Secure Mental Health Facility (www.propublica.org)
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (www.theverge.com)
Cryptocurrency Tipping on Lemmy & The Fediverse Could Be Implemented (socialmedia.dance)
Many 911 call centers are understaffed, and the job has gotten harder (www.npr.org)
Quick video demonstrating that lemmy.world sends every activity out twice (i.imgur.com)
I realise this is a known issue and that lemmy.world isn’t the only instance that does this. Also, I’m aware that there are other things affecting federation. But I’m seeing some things not federate, and can’t help thinking that things would be going smoother if all the output from the biggest lemmy instance wasn’t 50%...
US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide (www.theguardian.com)
Ohio River reaches major flood status along Ohio-West Virginia border (www.foxweather.com)
Baltimore's port could be fully functional by end of May, Maryland's governor says (www.politico.com)
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
(water is wet and fire is hot).
Archiving Lemmy instances
While clicking through some random Lemmy instances, I found one that’s due to be shut down in about a week — dmv.social. I’m trying to archive what I can onto the Wayback Machine, but I’m not sure what the most efficient way to go about it is....
The year is 2001, what CD are you playing on your Walkman? (dormi.zone)
U.S. brokerages start Reddit coverage with doubts over turning a profit (www.reuters.com)
Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs (www.theregister.com)
[Poll] What should be Lemmy's default way of displaying votes? (take.quiz-maker.com)
We’re adding the ability to customize this in the upcoming release, but I’m wondering what people think would be a good default....
Reddit has struck a $60m deal with Google that lets the search giant train AI models on its posts (fortune.com)
Its a bit old, but I just learned it via the retro-dodo article here: retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
Fact check: Trump falsely claims US crime stats are only going up. Most went down last year, including massive drop in murder (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Tuesday that US crime statistics are “only” going up. In fact, most US crime numbers went down last year – and the decreases included one of the largest national declines in murder ever recorded....
Waymo self-driving cars are delivering Uber Eats orders for first time (www.cnbc.com)