When someone loses the domain name, can they still set up the same lemmy server under a different name?
Is it possible or does it present difficulties with federation?...
Is WeChat safe to use in the US?
Edit: to clarify, is it going to scan my phone for credit card info and contacts etc.
Distro Migration
Hi, Linux! I’ve been using Linux for many years now, but haven’t moved distros in awhile. I’m considering it now, and I really would like to migrate over all my customized system and software settings. So far, I am thinking of backing up everything that begins with a dot in my home folder, all of my systemd service files,...
[Question] What are some good selfhostable ChatGPT alternatives?
What the title says. Are there any good ChatGPT alts that can be self hosted?
Help to find a Digital Planner App for a Moto Stylus Phone?
Looking to download an android app. Kind of like a digital replacement for those 2023-4 planners that one sees in Target....
What is the state of rootless ad blockers for Android?
Several years ago, I used Blockada, which was frequently recommended. According to some discussion threads, it seems to have fallen from grace....
Current status of Intel Arc on Linux
Hey everyone,...
Using proton for pirated games on linux?
Sure, finding games on the high seas is easy enough on my windows machine, but if I’m on my linux partition and want to play a game that would otherwise work if I bought it in Steam with proton, how would I go about getting the game to run?
Watch Party - A Community for Lemmy to Watch and Discuss Movies Together!
I came up with the idea for this community in the shower. What if I want to watch a movie with people from all over the world, and talk about it in a live thread? Live threads for sporting events and TV shows are pretty common, but I don’t think I’ve seen it applied to movies before. The concepts are simple:...
What are you reading currently?
I’m rereading Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children because I learned there are 3 new books (well, new for me) that I’m planning to read next.
Is Hibernation really useful with SSD?
I was deciding whether to have my swap partition with hibernation and whether it’s worth it or not....
Why are there 2 seperate instances of a community with the same name and function?
Won’t it be confusing? Are there plans to merge both of them together?
Leftist circlejerks everywhere
Am I the only one who gets bunch of posts from leftist and even communist subs/circlejerks in their feed? It’s kinda weird to see genzedong and similar popping up in hot/rising feed. This just hopefully some of the growing pains of a new platform.
northern lights this week where is the best time and day to view
The northern lights are going to be viewable this week, I’m curious if anybody knows if it will be all week or just Thursday night
PSA: Many Lemmy instances are currently experiencing massive automated sign-ups (bots)! If you run an instance with open sign-ups, please read!
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/177673...
Russia-Ukraine War Mega Thread | June 25 - July 8 2023
Please confine all news pertaining to Russia-Ukraine war to this thread exclusively. Any links shared outside of this thread will be subject to removal.
YSK: Sorting by 'Hot' instead of 'Active' will show more diverse content on Lemmy
I’ve seen a few mentions of people feeling like they’re constantly seeing the same content when sorting by active, I’ve since moved to hot, and I’m having a much better time.
If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instance wars.
If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that’s for the future of us all.
An island is a mountain mostly underwater
Why is it called a U turn and not an n turn
Basically the title but when we do a “U” turn we actually make a small n not a U.
How would you recommend configuring multiple virtual machines for a self-hosted Nextcloud/Jellyfin (and others) server?
Hi,...
The "just google it" mantra has probably held back quite a lot of interesting conversations and debate
I’ve always been a “lurker” on all platforms and communities because when I do have a question or would like to contribute my first thought has become:...
How did you mess with school computers?
Lemmy bot to automatically reply to YouTube links with Piped ones
cross-posted from: feddit.rocks/post/3214...