I think fry.gs is the main mod’s own instance.

Though best practice, as much as it exists in the Fediverse, would be to host the community assets from the home instance of the community.

Please upload the icon/baner to LW instead of from a 3rd party instance. This is the second recent time these have broken.

To my knowledge (as of 0.19.3 anyway), yes. Except for any images, naturally, though possibly the post thumbnail could have a local copy.

Is it still possible to interact with the communities (post, vote, etc.)?

Yes, but only locally.

If your instance already knows about the community, people on your instance can still post and interact with the community. However, anything submitted to it will not federate to other instances, so it’s analogous to a local-only community.

Unless the LW admins removed them already, there were some Beehaw communities that were still showing activity on Lemmy World from local LW users despite Beehaw not federating with LW. (Those communities were resolved prior to Beehaw defederating). The one I recall seeing no longer comes up, so they probably did remove them (admins were aware).

is it still possible to delete them if the ownership of the community (aka the top mod) belongs to an user from another instance

I don’t think so, at least not in 0.19.3. There are some operations that, if using a remote mod account (even if it’s top mod), throw a “not a moderator” error.

The DNC could have run an iguana wearing an offensive trucker hat, and we still should have voted for the iguana when Trump was the alternative or stood a chance of winning again.

It’s up to the voters to make smart choices, and some of them made the stupid choice.

You clearly have no idea how US elections work at that level. The single candidate with the most votes wins. “Not Trump” was not a candidate.

If Trump gets 49% of the vote, Harris 48%, and “other” gets 3%, that’s not counted as 51% against Trump and he loses. That’s Trump winning with 49% of the vote.

Anyone who didn’t vote (or didn’t vote for the only candidate likely to defeat Trump) is responsible for his win.

“But if the Dems ran a better candidate…”

“But Harris didn’t even stop in Dearborn, so it’s her fault not ours”

“Sure, everything Trump says is a lie, but at least he stopped here to lie to our faces. It’s the dem’s fault.”

“One of Trump’s first acts last time was a Muslim ban, but I can’t be arsed to remember that far back”

“I had to vote for this otherwise the dems wouldn’t learn anything”

/s

Block button.

And this is why every time a developer asks me for shell access to any of the deployment servers, I flat out deny the request.

Good on you for learning from your mistakes, but a perfect example for why I only let sysadmins into the systems.

It’s reich on the tip of my tongue, but I’m just NOT SEEing it.

I’m…speechless and all out of snark on this one. This is fucking horrifying.

Single-issue voters who threw their vote away or sat out and did not help stop this, well, hope you’re happy with your choices.

FYI: The title needs to be “me_irl” or it’s likely to get removed. You can use an emoji in place of the underscore, though.

Might I suggest “me☝️irl” ?

More like “Invert selection” for all of the things they’re currently targeting.

DOJ, there is corruption in the government, but it ain’t coming from USAID. You might want to look upward in your org chart if you’re worried about corruption.

Probably. They use “DEI” to mean anything they don’t like.

WHO should reply GFY

Wait, y’all announce when you leave? I just slip out like a ninja

No, please keep the "we told you so"s coming. There are still people in the back defending their abstention / 3rd party vote / blaming the 'dems. They need to understand they are at least partially responsible for this.

There was little beyond an idea inside the president’s head.

Fixed that for them.