The registry only works for legitimate companies that are playing by the rules. That is to say that it does jack shit, at least for me
I get dozens of spam calls and texts a day, mostly political in nature but with some good loan scams mixed in for variety.
Iirc, HC is pretty explicitly a troll instance
The thing that made federation make sense to me was comparing it to email. Email is a shared protocol and anyone who has an email address can send one to any other email address. There are lots of providers, like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc, that all offer access to an email address.
I picked .world because why would I want LESS than the whole world. I mean I didn’t see an option for .universe. Later, I was criticized for picking a shitty one by some random guy.
You might make a Google account because gmail is the first email service you heard about, and realize that you disagree with the company or want different features, so you go make an email on Proton instead. From either platform, you can still receive email from Yahoo users and send it to them. However, you aren’t necessarily able to just ‘transfer’ your email account from one provider to another.
sure enough my post was deleted and I didn’t even understand the reason. I think it said something about me not belonging to the instance. So I’m thinking why did it let me post in the first place and why did it let them answer and if it’s technically possible to do it in the first place, why disallow it?
Sometimes, other providers might have rules about who is and is not allowed to send email to their platform. This is usually to protect against spam.
Where those actions are automatic upon receipt with email, that isn’t always the case on Lemmy. Reddit had similar rules in many communities, where people with new accounts or low karma weren’t allowed to post.
Edit: fixed a typo
Also, I’d point out that there’s a difference between learning how to drive and being able to take apart and reassemble a motor. Learning to drive is a fundamental requirement for operating a motor vehicle and is often unintuitive at first- it’s only through practice that we become comfortable with driving.
Totally depends on what you’re comfortable with. I personally will wear shorts down to around 40°F (4.5°C).
It’s cool that you care about your friend, but it’s inappropriate to be posting about another person’s medical issues unless you have their explicit consent. It’s also just not your business.
Also, as others have said, the armchair doctors here cannot provide any real actionable information. If she is concerned, she should go see her primary care provider or a dermatologist.
I was under the impression that they just released a statement after the ICE ‘gotta catch em all’ propaganda. Why would they sue now but not then?
Call screening is actually one of the reasons I’ve been thinking about going back to a Pixel, I had that on my Pixel 5 and Fold.
Fortunately, the Google messages app (default for Android) does a half decent job of filtering spam texts for me. I go through the filter every couple days and just report them to my provider en masse.