For example on Reddit there is an active subreddit for learning my first language (German), where learners post questions about it and I frequently answer them.

There is such a community here too, and I am subscribed to it, but hardly anyone ever posts to it, so I have nothing to respond to.

Mastodon is mainly a way to get updates from news sites, blogs, etc.

like all wikis, it is not a reliable source, this doesn’t mean it isn’t useful

The “threadiverse” (i.e. lemmy-compatible communities), yeah. There are still many topics that I would find interesting to discuss, but that nobody talks about here; to the extent that there are communities for them, they get very little activity.

The microblogging fediverse (mastodon-compatible), I think, is popular enough by now, I have no real desire to see even more activity there, can hardly keep up with what I’m currently following there and currently tend to unfollow more accounts than I start following.

On the Internet I grew up on, pretty much anything was ok except to discuss (or even speculate about) the real-world identities of users who didn’t very openly disclose them.

Now many people think the latter is ok.

I remember learning in school that breathing through the nose is healthier than through the mouth because your nose is capable of filtering the air to some extent, some particles are going to get stuck in your nose rather than travelling further inside your body.

Can we stop blaming platforms for what their users post on them?

It’s not TikTok, Telegram, Twitter, Mastodon, Lemmy spreading misinformation (or correct information for that matter), it is their users. People used to understand this, somehow they don’t anymore.

Quick reminder that the “Nobel prize in economics” is not actually a Nobel Prize.

(I didn’t know this for a very long time, so this may be news to some people reading this.)

Difficult to say without knowing your setup. The message is probably correct as written, the file system is for some reason read-only; perhaps you (intentionally or mistakenly) mounted it read-only, or your setup doesn’t support mounting it for writing.

I have never heard that before this thread, possibly because I was born in Austria decades after the name “Deutsches Reich” was abolished.

Not aware of one in German.

That is literally what browser bookmarks are meant for.

which I usually call scharfes S

I am not 100% sure of the answer (I am sure there are websites where this is explained), but I am reasonably sure it has to do with the fact that V and U used to not be distinct letters, but variations of the same letter.

I find both of those names silly, I like the fact that my first language (German) doesn’t call any letter “double” anything.

I was thinking more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Privacy_Act

did you really cross-post this and not even fix the typo in the title

On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell

wot

the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, something is definitely wrong with the chronology here

Texts will have been written about them, e.g. wiki articles or fediverse posts will probably survive, but playable is another story.

A lot of FOSS projects have succeeded in approximately this way. I think it can only be a matter of time until this happens even in this area.

I don’t know anything about NixOS, but this kind of thing can’t be unfamiliar to anyone who has been paying attention over the last ~10 years.

Eric S. Raymond was right: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918