I haven't, but I've seen another thread about it. Someone said that PieFed blocks this activity, but last time I looked at the thread, nobody had a good answer for why someone's using the system like that.
Reposting was basically a business on Reddit, but Lemmy isn't big enough AND these accounts don't stick around.
I've seen handles in kanji — I assume Japanese, could be Chinese. Some browsers will translate that if they can. At least to something you can say (if you don't know how to say those symbols, that is). For example, people whose first language is English can say "konnichiwa" — the Japanese word for "hello" or "good day" written in Romaji, which is Japanese using the Roman alphabet — but they wouldn't know how to pronounce こんにちは — it's the same word. So you can look at that in my message and say "konnichiwa" out loud, but if you happened upon it in a week and you've forgotten I said this, you probably won't recognise it. But, you can highlight it, long press/right click and search your favourite search engine to find out what it is.
(Side note: I do recognise は which is pronounced "wa." It's part of the title of my favourite film, 君の名は。 (Kimi no Na wa., or "your name.") I also recognise の when I see it. This was the first one I learned — because it looks like a fortune cookie!)
Not necessarily.
You're kind of talking about two different things that are somewhat interchangeable. First you have a username which is used to log into a network or system. Second you have a forum/chat handle which is used to identify an anonymous or semi-anonymous user (e.g. CerebralHawks for me). I don't think it's strictly necessary for a forum handle to be pronounceable, but it's easy to read mine and call me that, or just "Hawks" or "Hawk." If it's not, the mind isn't going to retain it as long (this could be a good thing) and it's hard to say, so it's hard to address.
Usernames absolutely don't have to be. Forum/chat handles should be, but it isn't necessary.
It's not dead, it just lived long enough to see itself become the villain. Reddit used to be about communities and people. Now it's about bots and defending pedophiles. And falsely accusing devs of blackmail and shuttering the API when said dev brings the receipts. That, too.
Of course, said dev's app got open sourced and ported to Android for Lemmy users, so there's that. I don't know much about coding and source, but both Voyager and Mlem look like they got the best parts of Apollo. And that's a good thing.
"Religion is true to the poor, false to the rich, and useful to the powerful."
I don’t have a religion, but consider myself to be “religiously neutral.” Either smart men from all over are running the same scam — or there are common bits of wisdom in most religions and there may be something to that. Either way, I ultimately believe in Humanism, I suppose. That humans are inherently good, or want to be, and/or enough actually are.
I do not believe in anything original myself. It’s all academic to me.
Anything involving Copilot makes me happy to be a Mac user.
If you have a machine that runs Windows and the hardware is still good, it’s time to give Linux a chance. Look into Proton for gaming (it’s a translation layer, like WINE I suppose). And let’s stop acting like Macs are the odd one out. Macs run UNIX. Windows is the odd one out! ;)
I was just gonna say, I just replied to one, and then I saw who I'm replying to. Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to call ya out like that. Not sure if I've seen others.