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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Ancient coins (2000-1700 years old) are surprisingly common and can be had very cheaply unless you want a specifically rare or perfect one.

    I went through most of my life believing that anything older than say 200 years was automatically a museum piece or equivalent. But most museums of ancient history who display ancient coins have multitudes of the displayed coins sitting in storage. The Romans alone minted BILLIONS of coins over the span of the Republic and the Empire (that’s over 1000 years of history!) and if even 1% of them survive today, that’s still many, many dozens of millions.



  • Instead of one central server divided in subreddits, we have dozens/hundreds of “instances” of Lemmy, which are almost all federated with each other. This means that posts, comments,… propagate between all the federated ones, not just the one you’re on. This serves to eliminate the need for one central authority (which can be hacked/bribed/changed/…). The largest instance right now is lemmy.world. If you were to create a new community there, it would federate to all other connected servers and people can interact with the content freely. If someone else wanted to start the same community, they would be able to do this, including the same name, if they create it on another origin instance (for example lemm.ee). From that point onwards, both communities will be live and be able to “live” next to each other without crossing boundaries or running into any technical issues.

    This also means it’s almost impossible to get truly banned on Lemmy since you can simply create a new account on another instance. Since (shadow)banning is being massively misused by Reddit right now, this will eventually be the biggest reason for the growth of Lemmy. Reddit has become a staunchly anti-consumer/anti-user platform where trying to contribute is actively being resisted by power users/mods - and then they want to monetize your contributions through ads as well. No thank you.


  • You can appoint other people to mod, but if a community remains without moderation for a significant amount of time, someone else might ask admin to take it over. You can also create “copies” on each individual federated host which allows for competing subs without having to snipe for community names at creation time.

    Not perfect but much better than any of the alternatives.


  • 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

    Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).