surprised this wasn't a lemmygrad user

I think we have different ideas of what "no cost" means, unless I'm incorrect and that university professors and support staff in Europe are volunteers.

Lemmy isn't designed to access microblogs or follow individual users though, so you'd probably never see it from Lemmy.

lemmy isn't designed to do that, but mastodon is. For example if you paste the perma-link for your comment https://lemmus.org/comment/791388 into the search bar of your Mastodon account on Theres.life you'd find the same content at https://theres.life/@faintwhenfree@lemmus.org/110834025709111907

deleted

maybe, maybe not. Particularly if your account is followed by anyone with a platform that doesn't support DELETE from remote servers, like like earlier versions of Diaspora and GNU Social. and yoru delete command might not work such as if the remote server is down when the delete request is sent. Once you choose delete most platforms send a request to every server that it knows of to delete the same, if it doesn't get a response within a certain amount of time it will request it again, and after so many failures it stops trying. The server could later come back up and it never know that the item was deleted.

I'm not sure aware off hand of any servers that make it easy for admins to turn off the ability to delete, but its Free Software so anyone could download the source code edit it as they see fit, like removing the delete function, compile it and run it on their own server.

Its a really great reminder that we all should assume anything that has ever been posted on the internet will exist forever. So don't post stuff that is going to come back and haunt you.

I would recommend you start by joining the Industrial Workers of the World and paying monthly dues to empower the union to fight the fight necessary. https://www.iww.org/membership/

They are different platforms, you can access Lemmy communities from Kbin, where it looks just like a kbin magazine, or from Friendica, where it looks just like a Friendica Forum, of from Mastodon, where it looks like an annoying bot that re-posts every comment as a separate Re-toot.

There are many other Fediverse platforms but those are the ones I have the most experience with.

then set up your own instance

no, it's the 21st century. It's fine to move forward toward Jetsonmobiles and transporters, not backwars to bikes.

In the mean time have you we've actually driven in a road? You have two options: (1.) stupid bicyclists who don't follow the rules, like not even showing down for stop signs, or (2.) stupid politicians who get rid of useful lanes to create protected bike lanes that are used near 0% of the time.

why do you hate people?