Was reading about undersea com/internet cables. Then just started thinking about how wild it would have been if a wreck like the Titanic had been messed up even more if a cable (or cables) had been dropped on it (or even found due to laying them).

I started searching, but there are too many articles about the cables being damaged and/or sabotaged. But aside from some that talk about potential impact of the environments where they are laid, I haven’t seen anything about damaging shipwrecks by the cables or discovering any while being placed.

Would imagine that most of the cables are placed outside of really busy shipping routes, and avoid unnecessarily deep sections. Still would be kind of interesting to know.

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    The team wanted to set up here, but was held back by the lack of mod tools.

    Lemmy hasn’t really improved on them yet, but there’s a revamped UI in the works. Piefed has a number of improvements already.

    Maybe once things are looking good enough for their high standards, we can invite them back over to take a look 😄

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      11 hours ago

      Piefed might support what they need at this point. I’ve heard the devs really focused on moderator tooling.

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        Piefed also has a feature to mark replies as an “answer” (like StackOverflow) which would be cool for the comm