How so?

their USB stick only contains a shortcut to their actual .ppt file

This happened all the time when I was in middle school. Way to activate a suppressed memory.

Even regular users can see them through other federated services like kbin AFAIK. They show up under likes and dislikes.

Downvotes are public on Lemmy fyi. There are interfaces that show who voted on a post or comment.

Thank god, that bug was annoying as hell. I was searching for a bug report on this a couple of days ago but couldn’t find one.

It’s definitely worth a try at least, thanks!

The step from Proto-Sinaitic to Phoenician is like the 2015-2020 era when companies simplified their logos to an extreme degree.

That looks like RAM corruption to me.

https://www.wfdownloader.xyz/

Wfdownloader is often overlooked but it’s probably one of the best and versatile tools around.

Of course it matters. A new network will have to start from scratch and with the “nobody is there, so I won’t join”-mentality, potential growth is severely limited. By implementing federation, you will instantly have a base community to build on.