Appreciate the thoughtful reply! I can see where you're coming from in terms of opening TLDs up creating a bunch of issues, even though I do still enjoy the more playful ones despite that.
It's honestly a little surprising that so many have been made available given the issues it can present, but I think that's largely a byproduct of approaching the internet less from a rigidly structured perspective and more of a loose informal perspective.
do you think you'd be able to tell if it was instead a massive homelab run by the microorganisms in your house?
Personally, the childish side of me will always get a kick out of .wtf in a website name.
And even though this is lemmy, when I searched for “Ubuntu Help”, there’s no community named that. There’s also no community named “Linux help”. Which I find very very odd. Lemmy of all places you’d think would have a linux help community!
Have you been by !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip yet? Nevertheless, this community should work just as well.
There's also !linux4noobs@programming.dev or a community with the same name on Lemmy World. When specificity in a search fails, falling back to broader/more basic terms may help (e.g. searching for Ubuntu or Linux).
Is this part of your sibling goofing routine?
Anywhere it's generally okay to look/find things
Why is this all so convoluted and, seemingly, legal? Is this purposely convoluted to obfuscate illegal activity?
I think separating them improves the user experience for regular users, which I think counts as a real advantage. As I wrote in the body text:
As-is seeing an indication of a comment for a post only for it to turn out to be a bot is slightly disappointing at best, and mildly confusing at worst when their display has been disabled.
It's a small detail, but small details add up when it comes to the user experience.
If I just wanted to label it, colored tape. I don’t know if colored masking tape is ideal – my experience has been that masking tape left on a surface for a long time leaves some goo, though Goo Gone might get that off. But I suspect that it’d stay on the thing for a long time.
Yeah, the gooey factor is one of the only reasons I've been somewhat iffy on using masking tape for this purpose. However if it holds up to where it doesn't need replacement, could be a nonfactor all things considering.
By automated reporting do you mean something like filters on the backend to flag offensive posts per some custom settings?
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What are shitboxes?