I can only defend myself with the good old “it is impossible to write a Y̶o̶u̶T̶u̶b̶e̶ Lemmy comment stupid enough that everyone will realise it is ment to be sarcastic”

Preprocessing source code is an awful idea and I wish it never became widespread.

I used to hate semantic whitespace, but I came around when I was using it anyway.

Please don’t.

I honestly can’t see anyone but an insignificant fraction of the general population ever using this.

There are only a few people who would benefit from taking the time to learn a how to use this contraption and even fewer who would bother.

Even better: wash yourself regularly and avoid synthetic fabric.

It took me about a minute to figure the same, before reading the comment, and I never had a multi element burner.

Maybe OP, you, and a lot of other people in the thread are being a bit overdramatic?

They have forgotten the sacred scriptures!

“And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.”

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

That is a very good idea if you want to disincentivise yourself from using your tablet

I see your point, but I really wish we could go back to a more innocent internet, when people make slightly crappy videos as a hobby, rather than overproduced shows as a profession.

H2g2 would make an amazing show. And we could finally find out what happened to earth.

They’ll get a lot of “dguhvdrhhfddhcbjgfbkogdwscvbopiyrcbkitdcbjitewsfgbnkoiggvgfdxvhgvbnj”

Honestly I wouldn’t want anything baked into the protocol, but I can see people donating small amounts to the instance hosting a worthy comment if there was a simple enough way to do it.

Cryptocurrencies were supposed to enable that, but I think we are still a long way away (no, lighting does not qualify).

They are two separate projects with similar goals (implement a Reddit clone). They both use the activitypub protocol, so they can generally interoperate. Other activitypub based services, such as mastodon, can also interact with either Lemmy or kbin, but in a more limited and clunkier way.

Lemmy was started first so there are more servers and more users, kbin is more recent.