Users can see the removed communities here: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity

It looks like news@ and worldnews@ were spared, however both now show no moderators attached to them which feels a bit off. ( https://lemmy.world/c/news@kbin.social and https://lemmy.world/c/worldnews@kbin.social )

I think it has something to do with the actual h-y-p-e-r.space server – attempting to just join a public room, “add server” results in the Element webUI red-error messaging “cannot get room list from server” and “cannot connect to server”. This matrix server doesn’t seem to show up on lists of popular, well known matrix instance so I think it’s maybe settings on their end. Admins should maybe have considered a “longstanding” server like tchncs.de or whatnot if they didn’t want to use matrix.org. $0.02 https://servers.joinmatrix.org/

You lost me. It deters animals (cats, squirrels, dogs) from even entering your lawn - it’s non toxic and doesn’t harm the grass itself. Dissolves/disappears in water/rain/mowing so has to be reapplied, you just use enough to create a deterrent to entry. What does a lawyer have to do with this?

Restaurant grade/sized (big bag) red chili flakes you can get off Amazon - wear full clothing/gloves when spreading around the lawn as it burns on your skin in this quantity. You can use a grass seed spreader (the hand crank green bucket kind) to spread them, or just use your hands. Pay mind to the direction of the wind and face / work downwind so they don’t blow back on yourself while spreading.

Discord denied an account to me without providing a phone number. As soon as I created an account (using a valid self-hosted email verification - same used here on lemmy) my account was immediately marked as “suspicious” and required phone verification. I emailed Discord support and talked to a human, “nothing we can do about it”. Discord is a private, for-profit company with their own motives which does not align with the intended spirit of Lemmy - other solutions exist which are open (Mattermost for example, but there are many) - it was the lemmy.world admin who willingly chose to engage with a closed, private platform. There is an incongruity here which cannot be ignored.

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