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The comment asking what a foot is, was building off the joke in the post image which was asking what a mile is, which itself is a reference to an American line https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-the-fuck-is-a-kilometer

What The Fuck Is A Kilometer, also known as WTF Is A Kilometer, refers to an American catchphrase that is satirically patriotic by being aggressively ignorant of the metric system. This is because the United States doesn't use the metric system (kilometers) and instead uses the imperial system (miles). The phrase's first usage was in a moldy meme featuring George Washington with a bald eagle and a giant firearm.

Only it started as being satire, but now it's also used by some people trying to be patriotic

Welcome 😊

Oh ok that is odd, thank you for bringing that up

I'll test that some more before we run another survey on here

Welcome!

I'd recommend looking through these two guides / infographics as they are a good introduction

What is the fediverse

How does Lemmy work, in detail

If you consider the network of email providers, then "gmail" could be considered one "instance" of the network. You can use it as a self-contained service, but the strength comes from being a part of the wider network.

So you can use lemmy.ca as if it was an isolated Canadian version of reddit, but the strength comes from being able to access communities from all over

Thanks for sharing these, hope it helps people :)

Yes that was intentional, but I should have been more clear about what each link was. I added this blurb now:

The voting form website has instructions in both English and French. You only need to fill in the form once, and it will include songs from all categories. For convenience, you can find direct links below:

We can also update the confirmation screen for future surveys. Right now it's set to 'soft mandatory', so it will stop you the first time but you can forcibly skip past it at that point. Surveys don't usually do that, so it might be unnecessarily confusing to use that feature.

So far Signal has stuck by its values, and a number of times it has threatened to pull out of a country if a new law would force them to compromise on encryption /privacy

For example, most recently

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3850597/signal-threatens-to-leave-france-if-encryption-backdoor-required.html

I'm not sure if they would do the same with the US, but I don't think they'll just agree to the demands that easily.

As for bluesky, I don't have much faith in them

If someone wants to put together some playlists, I didn't have a chance to do that yet. All but one of the songs are on YouTube, so that might be a good place to start.

This is also our first time using LimeSurvey. Hopefully it goes well, and if not then we can learn from it before using it for our Census later

Welcome nonetheless 😄

While we do have accounts, I don't think they're monitored actively. It's probably best to list the email address. We all can see those emails, and we've been able to help a number of new users that way already. Often we can match the email address to the account and resolve it within our initial reply

Also thank you for putting this together! It's very helpful

Few more listed on the links here

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities#_3-look-through-other-instances-%F0%9F%8C%90

mander.xyz is nice for all the STEM communities

These two are in line with what you're looking for

!buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

!buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works

Maybe !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world and !nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Welcome :)

Welcome :) Let us know if you need help with anything!

This is true, and we wouldn't want to keep a bad actor around just because the election is over. I'll change the wording to add 'minimum'

We're also working on updated guidelines, so there will be a bigger call for feedback like this once we have that together. Those guidelines will apply site wide and across the different platforms (pixelfed.ca for example). How we deal with misinformation is an important area that we want to get right

So while this isn't the cause in your case, it is possible to sticky things to the main feed. It's done by admins, and for example lemmy.ca has a welcome post stickied right now:

https://lemmy.ca/

What is the actual phrase?

____ where this train terminates.

No decisions have been made on that yet, and I'm happy to discuss more about it :)

Right now, I think a rule like that might be too broad. A big part of this election is about what's going on outside of Canada, so I can see us having to make exceptions for important news that hasn't been covered by a local news organization yet. I'd prefer to set some basic rules that we can follow consistently, and deal with problem posts if/when they get posted. Misleading and inaccurate headlines would still be removed under this rule

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