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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Airbnb is terrible for society but imo this is the right ruling. If you want to stop housing from being hoarded and abused for profit, you need to do it through the legislative process.

    This article doesn’t give a lot of context for why their home addresses were requested, but I would guess it’s because the prevailing sentiment is folks are tired of foreign nationals buying up expensive properties and deepening the housing crisis.

    The way to stop this is by amending the law. Sounds like someone is trying to skip a few steps.


  • Okay I learned a few things, though they may be specific to Memmy.

    1. The /c/community@instance works, and opens the links in the app, rather than browser
    2. If you have text in front of your link, it doesn’t work. Might be a Memmy issue.
    3. I need to test, but I think #2 is responsible for the Null errors I’ve been getting when text is hyperlinked.

    Text testing #3 - confirmed, this returns the Null error.

    Now without prior text

    test - this also didn’t work

    test! - using a link beginning with ! Also didn’t work. Hmm.

    Edit from browser: Hyperlinked text isn’t working properly in Memmy





  • To expand on the idea:

    Ideally this would incentivize devs who are hesitant about the cost of hosting to spin up a server, bringing us more instance options and helping to further decentralize the platform.

    Right now fedi relies on donations, and it seems to be working, but at some point the growth could outpace the donations leading to large instances shutting down. Rewards on Reddit are dumb as shit cause they feed an amoral corporation, but on Lemmy they would directly support those who are lending their time, money, and expertise to the growth of the fediverse.