the university I attended freshman year was ranked top 10 in the US for comp sci (at least as of 4 years ago), yet some of their account management stuff on their website wouldn't be accessible after like 7pm. absolutely insane
LinusTechTips just had an issue with this on WAN show tonight where Luke was trying to show a video on Twitter but he wasn't signed in on his stream laptop and Linus was remote so he couldn't share his screen.
Luckily the creator of the video they wanted to show had also posted it to YouTube so they were able to show it anyway, but it still disrupted the flow of the show and led them to not be able to use the platform as a news source.
They are encouraging users to send feedback on updates via their official feedback site, as well as telling users to engage with their official accounts on other social media platforms.
no, each server (kbin.social, fedia.io, lemmy.world, etc.) can have their own communities, since there is no centralized server that manages community names it would be impossible to track which servers already have a community with the same name
yes, that's the beauty of the fediverse! this post explains how you can do that. you can also view and interact with posts from other federated social media sites such as Mastodon if you are interested in that sort of thing
Well the RULEs start coming, and they don't stop coming (lemmy.tf)
Or...
Part of the Social Security website (ssa.gov) only works during certain hours (sh.itjust.works)
… its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?
Twitter's latest user-unfriendly move requires an account just to read (www.androidpolice.com)
In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall
Mojang's dropping its official support of the Minecraft Subreddit (www.overclock3d.net)
Minecraft's subreddit is losing its official support from Mojang, and Reddit's management is to blame
Remember that the button at the top of the sidebar expands the options to disable federation. (media.kbin.social)