I've heard it as "Is the pope catholic?"

This is from Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, for those (like me) who haven’t read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

The tragedy of the commons is the idea that when a resource is shared and can benefit the individual at a cost to the community, it is rational for the individual to overuse the resource, even though this collectively leads to the depletion of the resource for everyone

I wouldn't want to have the job of managing GitHub infrastructure right now. The sheer volume of AI slop being uploaded must be unimaginable

Paste the link in the search bar of another instance. If the post is cached, it'll return it. Ideally, use the link to the post on the original instance, rather than the link to the post on another instance.

Technical answer:

Instances store posts from other instances. Every post on the fediverse has a unique ID called the "actor ID". The actor ID of a post is the URL of the post on the instance of the user that authored the post. On the Lemmy web UI, you can retrieve this by right-clicking on the rainbow star icon below any post and copying the link.

To retrieve the details for a cached post, you can call resolve_object?q=<actor-id>. For example:

https://sh.itjust.works/api/v3/resolve_object?=https%3A%2F%2Flemmings.world%2Fpost%2F41938713

For convenience, the Lemmy UI calls this when you paste a URL in the search bar.

This can work for any URL that points to the post, but you should use the actor ID where possible. The Lemmy backend knows the actor ID of every post it has, but it may not know whichever URL you're querying with, and you may get a null result when the post is cached.

I hope this helps.

The FIDE regulations dictate that a player who declines en passant must drop a brick on their pipi. A brick is kept nearby for such eventualities

r/MenAndFemales

There is no Lemmy equivalent

We can leave your friends behind