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Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day

Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:...

Lemmy communities need a distinct one word name for communities like how reddit has "subreddits"

Part of the latest migration wave. Something I realized when looking for communities on google is that “lemmy community” is super clumsy.

yay -Syu Permission Denied

Howdy, everybody. I’m posting this here in an attempt to begin to move some information that is currently only stored on Reddit over to Lemmy instead, that way we’ll start coming up in Google searches and we can get our information locally. I’ll post my source in the comments if anyone’s interested....

Full backup of Samsung S22 Ultra

I need to change the screen on my phone and unfortunately the repair shop has to wipe the phone - don't ask why, something related to personal data etc....

Audiobook sites!

I really like Audiobookbay for discovering new books, but if I’m searching for something specific it is a bit annoying to navigate with their sometimes broken search and the vague categorization. Seeding is also sometimes sparse, especially with older uploads…...

How do you fight random fees added to utility accounts?

I've had my ISP account for nearly 3 years. Today, I got some funny new fees on my Internet bill. One was a "high speed network recovery fee" and the other was an "administrative fee" with my state in the name. I'm curious what more I could do to fight these stupid fees. Here's what I've done so far:...

Is youtube limiting video quality for alt front ends?

I've been using Piped (non-tracking alternative front end) and the video quality dropped a wee while ago. Just trying to work out where the problem is. Same video was much clearer on youtube than through Piped....

Format drive if wrong decryption key is prompted?

Is there a possibility to make Linux install automatically delete the data if wrong decryption key is set x amount of times?...

MAX Roku app password box

I just bought a new Roku. The MAX app won't let me sign in without a 10 character password. My account is old enough to be before this was a requirement. I can sign into their website with my 8 character password just fine....

Revanced Patching of android reddit apps, what's going on ?

Saw some posts on reddit about revanced patching some android reddit 3rd party apps like sync, rif, boost etc to enable users to use their api key or something to enable them to continue using their favorite app....

What is the correct way to refer to a community on Lemmy? Is it by using "!..." or "c/..."?

What are some worthwhile youtube channels?

I listen to youtube more than I watch any kind of TV. Here’s my list, what does everyone else watch or listen to?...

What are you playing?

Board, card, or video games - what's being played this week?

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Did the privacy concerns have been updated/planned for update?

I just fall on this and didn't know you can't remove stuff from lemmy....

If I comment in a federated community, will it be seen on every server?

As far as I've seen FAQs is should be so but my test comment doesn't appear on the host server, just on lemmy.world. Is this a sync issue, or a weird feature?

How will lemmy scale?

I already get rate-limited like crazy on lemmy and there are only like 60,000 users on my instance. Is each instance really just one server or are there multiple containers running across several hosts? I’m concerned that federation will mean an inconsistent user experience. Some instances many be beefy, others will be under...