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  > His Cherokee ancestors carried the variety over the Trail of Tears, the infamous winter death march from the Smoky Mountains to Oklahoma (1838-39) that left a trail of 4,000 graves.’ Okay, I now understand the context behind the name, and I understand, but like. Printing that on a seed saver packet _really really really does not carry the necessary context for this to serve as the main name for this cultivar_

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  Specifically regarding the instance chooser point: I like the idea of a rotating cast of high uptime, low barrier instances, but in seeing current Lemmy cross-instance drama, I find myself wondering how best to navigate that. For context, here's a bit about my own Lemmy journey: when I signed up after looking for Reddit alternatives, I looked through the instance list, saw a few that looked appealing, and ultimately decided on SJW because it promised that shit would, indeed, just work. I j...

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  For the record, "this fraud" is "mortgage fraud," specifically getting a mortgage while claiming more than one primary residence. It's worth clicking through if you want details, but the clickbait headline of the article annoys me. (I lay the blame for this on rawstory, not on OP for faithfully transcribing it.)

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  Congratulations on the seedlings and the dance comp, and major condolences for your loss.

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  I have the same question, but a particular problem I am having is the need to chat via _text_ while streaming instead of audio for accessibility purposes. Discord's game overlay worked okay for this (not great, but usable) on Windows, but doesn't run at all on Linux, and every alternative I look at seems very voice chat focused. Steam does have chat options within the overlay but doesn't seem to have good chat history options.