Most common cause is people changing their language settings in their profile. It’s a daily occurrence. The app really needs to tell people “25 messages not displayed because you are only viewing in Spanish”.

Things have been incredibly unstable there.

I wish lemmy.ml (also unstable) or lemmy.world would hand out a (nearly) full copy of the database so we can get more analysis done on PostgreSQL performance behaviors. Remove the private comments and password /2fa/user, or whitelist only comments/posts/communities/person tables - but most everything else should already be public information that’s shared via the API or federation anyway. it’s the quantity, grouping, and the age of the data that’s hard to reproduce in testing. And knowledge of other federated servers, even data that may have been generated by older versions of Lemmy that new versions can’t reproduce.

It’s been over 60 days of constant PostgreSQL overload problems and last week Lemmy.ca made a clone of their database to study offline with AUTO_EXPLAIN which surfaced a major overload on new comments and posts related to site_aggregates counting (it was counting each new post/comment against every known server, not just the single database row for a server).

I have an account over on World too, and every major Lemmy server I use throws errors with casual usage. It’s been discouraging, I haven’t visited a website with this many errors in years. Today (Sunday) has actually been better than yesterday, but I do not see many new postings being created on lemmy.ml today.

I imagine they have full offsite backups they can pull data from. That’s why we have documentary shows like Mr. Robot, never forget 5/9!

3 underscores did not work in preview, I’ll just leave it as is now, a clickable link (not rendered inline)

I can’t get it to work on an image. Is it 4 underscores?

I don’t think it works on an image?!

How do you spoiler an image in Lemmy markdown?

image here ![] (https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0332b83a-ab01-4c99-9155-2a08b02fb652.png)

among several others

I haven’t seen a feature for that yet, maybe I missed it? If indeed it is absent, I suggest !lemmywishlist@lemmy.ml - posting this

Blame the US media for insisting that liberals are left.

In the USA, I find one of the most troublesome “media” is the Levant double-imported Bible. And the “USA media” who teaches that Bible without any regard for verse “1 John 3:17”. They actually think that the Bible is “right” and “extreme capitalism”… and avoid teaching “1 John 3:17”.

The same awful media teachers I have mostly encountered in my 50+ years in the USA also seem to think gender matters above all else and can’t find verse “1 John 4:20” or “Galatians 3:28” in the media book they claim to follow. I question their ability to interpret all media when I can flip to “1 John 3:17” (2000 years to get that book right) as they praise Fox News as “factual news”.

/// double rant

is right wing, right?

I honestly don’t know how to answer you. You are mixing now “liberal” in posting topic with “right wing” in comment. “I know” that I said “liberal vs. conservative”, you start going “left wing vs. right wing” and you get an entirely different set of nebulous faiths people have about the meaning of those words and their importance in viewing/interpreting the world that way.

As a human thinking system, all I see is people constantly hammering it as a be-all-end-all measuring stick. That is left, this is right, that is conservative, this is liberal without any true reasoning behind it as to why measure things this way.

Which great teachers said you should divide all interpretation of the world into this? I’m from the USA, and the Constitution sure doesn’t mention “left vs. right” or “liberal vs. conservative”, and the Founding Fathers of my nation did in fact educate a division via the Great Seal, front and rear, new world order vs. old world order. The Enlightenment (science) vs. classical mythology (superstition).

It’s like some runaway meme of cognitive dissonance to have this divisive faith systems. Left vs. Right seems to me to be exactly superstition!

I am also fully self-aware how popular that this is and that I’m pissing into a wind of extreme acceptance of this division. The map you show to me is an illustration of why it is a overused way of thinking. /rant

I think the true cognitive dissonance is the extremely strong faith in 2023 by so many in humanity who believe you can divide every single topic into “liberal vs. conservative”. You just can’t escape this bipolar thinking pattern, it’s everywhere. A faith bigger than any classical religion.

Yes, I do know this is ‘dank memes’

The interesting thing about Snowden to me after 10 years is how few times I see the public think about how low-level staff with hardware-level access can bypass all command and control decisions. He was a contractor who just wholesale scooped data off the servers. Nearly 10 years later… Jack Teixeira leaks documents because he has server access to documents outside his immediate need too.

I think a lot of organizations really don’t see how vulnerable they are to deliberate attacks and theft - if the NSA can’t protect their data 10 years ago, do you really think your mobile phone network provider or these VPN companies are not subject to internal staff selling off data, etc?