Undearius

That comes to the issue of USB as a protocol. That information should be branded on the connector at each end.

I do miss the days too when the connectors were colour-coded.

There’s a number of issues open for this.

More directly, the pull request that implents this has already been merged. Just waiting for it to be released

It was just a matter of time before something like this showed up.

I’m sure there will be a number of people that won’t be a fan of this but I think it’s a pretty innovative way to help the chicken-and-egg problem of early adoption. (No users because there’s no content, no content because there’s no users).

Very smart to have it limited to one bot on one instance to make it easy to block (or de-federate) for those that don’t like it, but I do.

I’ve experienced a taste of this already. I checked the instance list a couple days ago, and didn’t see one that stood out for my interests, so I created an account on the main lemmy.ml instance.

I just registered the same username on another but as far as I can tell, there is no way to merge or link these two accounts. So all the setup I’ve done and all the communities I’ve subscribed to, I have to do over again.

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Another “issue” (a bug or feature?) I’m seeing is there are a lot of duplicate communities between the instances. I guess one will eventually “prevail” and become the defacto instance for that community.