The Lemmy documentation explains the different sort options pretty well: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

The difference between “Hot” and “Active” is probably the most confusing to most users.

And I’m sure Google definitely wouldn’t require your copy of Chrome to be free of any Ad-Blocking or Anti-Tracking extensions to get that “Human” flag /s

DLR trains have never been designed to be un-staffed. The members of staff on board are called PSAs (Passenger Service Agents) or when the system orginally opened: “Train Captains”.

During normal service they’re responsible for operating the doors, ensuring the train is safe to depart each station and assisting passengers. However they’re also required to drive the trains manually within the depots and also in the event of technical problems with the ATO (Automatic Train Operation) system. DLR trains can’t move under ATO without a PSA using the control panel by the doors.

Its also worth remembering that 8 tube lines are also fitted with ATO (Victoria, Jubilee, Central, Northern, District, Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan) and the drivers on these lines have a similar role during normal service (except they sit in the cab and they’re officially known as “Train Operators”).

If you’re interested in the role of the PSAs, heres an old training video showing how they’d rescue a failed train, things will have changed since 1988 but its still interesting to see.

Looks like the update has resolved the issue with stale content on the frontpage Hot/Active filters as well!

I’ve also noticed this.

I’ve also noticed that when I leave the front page open in subscribed view I occasionally get a sudden flood of posts appearing, they’re always from remote instances and normally older posts (sometimes a few days old). It kinda looks like they’re only just being received by our instance at that point, although I’m not familiar enough with Lemmy to say thats 100% whats happening. But if we’re not reliably receiving posts then that could explain why the front page content is stale.

I can access biology@mander.xyz on feddit.uk at the URL https://feddit.uk/c/[email protected]

There are were no posts visible, which is probably because no one from our instance has subscribed to it yet. Until someone from feddit.uk subscribes to it, our instance won’t be receiving any content from it.

If you (or anyone else from feddit.uk) subscribes, then you’ll begin to see new content which is posted in future. If you want to make an existing post/comment visible within our instance, copy the link to the post/comment into the search box on our instance and it should then be retrieved and become visible.

I just tested this out by getting feddit.uk to retrieve this post which is now visible when you check biology@mander.xyz from this instance.

Federation certainly has a learning curve, but its not too bad once you get your head around it. Hope that helps explain it! 🙂

v0.18 hasn’t actually been released yet (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases) but it is planned to release very soon. Looks like Jerboa is just a tad early https://feddit.uk/comment/288934

Hopefully as Lemmy becomes more mature, updates can be better planned to avoid breaking things like this.

It feels like there ought to be means to personally penalise company directors for stuff like this. I suspect they’d take much greater interest in paying employees properly if their own necks were on the line.

All too often, large businesses treat fines for breaking the rules as just another operating cost.