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Falmarri , to fediverse in For my first post on Lemmy, I present the last post I made on Reddit 11 years ago. Thank you to everyone that has made the fediverse happen.
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It’s funny when this kind of thing happens. I built an app that was basically tindr for a project in college, several years before tindr started. Guess I should have release it

kemsat , to nostupidquestions in What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?

I think the awards system from Reddit could work, just without it being monetized. The awards let you see how people feel about the comment, and it’s more than just good/bad, like/dislike.

VGarK OP ,

Another user mentioned something like that! I like the idea :D

kemsat ,

I think it’s less braindead than the +/- system, which I think increases our engagement & makes us treat this place more like an irl_space

Kosmos , to android in What's your favorite alternate launcher?
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I use the Windows launcher, it’s really smooth.

zomtecos , to explainlikeimfive in Why won't fediverse instances bloat and pop?
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I run a private Mastodon Instance. The server gives me the option to automatically delete the media-cache after a given number of days (I have it set to 180 days). If the data is needed again, it will be pulled from the original instance. Again. If still available.

An additional setting is the deletion of the federated content at all, which is saved on my server. This probably cannot be reverted, as the server doesn’t know anymore what to pull from what server… I have this setting at 365 days.

Additionally I can set my personal account to auto delete my own posts after a given time. With being able to set some excludes (favorited, bookmarked, posts which got a minimum of likes, …). But this is not a server setting, it’s an account setting.

Social media does not need to be saved forever. :)

Deceptichum ,
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We’re not using social media.

And this stuff does need to be saved forever. The biggest advantage of reddit was that you could Google anything and find a detailed reddit post about your issue/topic from 3 years ago.

Brunette6256 ,

Is lemmy consider social media?

LufyCZ ,

Well you’re talking to people aren’t you

dampfnudel ,

I can set my personal account to auto delete my own posts after a given time. With being able to set some excludes (favorited, bookmarked, posts which got a minimum of likes, …). But this is not a server setting, it’s an account setting.

Where is this setting? I can’t find it on the web address https://[your-instance.com]/settings. Does this option need to be enabled by an instance admin?

Starglasses , to piracy in Are most of you using Torrents or Usenet?

I’m not. What are sonarr and radarr and why do you recommend them?

stu ,
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Sonarr and radarr manage downloads for TV and movies in a nice way for Usenet and actually torrents as well. You can set up quality profiles and choose which shows and movies you want to download and they will grab torrents/nzbs that meet your preferences, automatically start them in your torrent app or Usenet downloader, and then organize them in folders with appropriate metadata for Kodi/Plex when the downloads complete. They automate the process very nicely.

Edit, I’m a Usenet guy if that wasn’t already clear lol

Flatworm7591 ,

How is Usenet for privacy compared to torrents, e.g. if a usenet service you are paying for is compromised at some stage are they likely to be able to identify you based on payment data for example?

GeekFTW ,
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Not OP but: they are apps to schedule automatic downloads. Like Star Trek Strange New Worlds but don't wanna go every week and download it manually? Set it up in Sonarr and when you wake up the new episodes are waiting for you. Radarr is the same for film, prowlarr for aggregating torrent trackers all in 1 spot, bazarr for subtitles, and there's a few others. Can also be set up with usenet in addition to torrents.

fsniper ,

is prowlarr better than jackett? Is it wise to invest some time to migrate?

CmdrShepard ,

Yeah I switched after Jackett kept having issues with RARBG before they shut down. The biggest change is the fact that adding a tracker to Prowlarr will automatically add it to radarr, sonarr, and the like rather than having to duplicate everything manually yourself.

allforthebest , to asklemmy in what messaging apps do you use?

The most secure app I know is SimpleX. It is like Matrix but without an identifier, so you really interacting only with people you want. No one can reach you unless you gave him a link to connect to you.

Two different people cannot be ensured they are talking to the same person since there is no identifier they can compare to.

sideone , to ukcasual in Thoughts on this year's Glastonbury?
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The Foo Fighters set was amazing, and made me wish I was there just for that.

TerryLeopard OP ,

I've been promising myself that I'll go see the Foo Fighters since 1995

TeaHands ,
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It used to be almost impossible to avoid seeing them, they were at literally ever festival I went to in the early 2000s, feels like.

See also: Feeder.

archchan , to asklemmy in what messaging apps do you use?

Signal. I refuse to use whatsapp even though that’s what most people I know use.

Ryan213 , to futurama in What are the must see episodes before the new season start?
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Uh…all of them?

DeriHunter OP ,

Not sure I’ll be able to do so, but if someone can watch it until then of course this is the ultimate solution

sycamore ,

You don’t have to watch the new season when it comes out, you are allowed to wait until you’re caught up.

Commod0re , to startrek in What would a modern Enterprise series look like?

the thing about Enterprise is even at its worst, it’s not an entirely bad show - the supporting cast is good, they are set in an interesting time period, and the premise is ostensibly interesting.

The main problem for me is that, setting aside the fact that the main theme comes straight from the Patch Adams soundtrack, the show is straight up boring. They came so close to something really interesting with Archer being flawed because he was the first, and perhaps even not really the right guy to be captain. But then the writers had to make him a mary sue, he fails is way to success every episode, and becomes like the ship’s alcoholic dad, constantly getting into the dumbest yelling arguments with his wife first officer — who he is also canonically racist against by the way. You would think/hope they were setting him up for some growth on that, but, instead they chose to try to make a lot of the show indirectly relevant to 9/11

By the time the show finally set the stage to become interesting the majority of its audience had already been alienated

What Paramount ought to realize about it is that Enterprise failed because of the writers and producers and not because of the cast or setting and it should not be very difficult to do significantly better than the original

SuperSoftAbby , to nostupidquestions in What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?
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I still firmly believe one of the worst things to happen to the internet, besides pop-up ads, is up and down votes. Nothing exposes a misanthrope quicker than forcing them to comment instead of passively downvoting everything they see. Which makes it easier to remove them from the party.

Tedesche ,

I think you’ve got the wrong idea about misanthropes. But who cares? You’re only interested in excluding people who disagree with you and reinforcing an echo chamber for yourself.

You’re just as much a source of toxicity in these forums as those you wish you could ban from them.

chagall , to nostupidquestions in What kind of data do Lemmy instances store about their users?

Disclaimer, This is only for Lemmy.world.

I actually read the privacy policy. There are basically 3 segments of data:

  1. The one time when you signed up.
  2. All times you log in, after you’ve signed up.
  3. User generated data

For part one: They store your username and the IP address used when you create the account. They store a hashed version of your password, not the actual password. They’ll store that info for as long as you have an account with lemmy.world (although they reserve the right to keep it for up to 12 months after you’ve deleted your account). They store the hashed password so you can log into your account.

For part two: They keep a log of the times you sign in, the device you signed in from (iOS, Android, web) and the IP address you do it from. They delete this data on a rolling basis, every 90 days from the date the login data was created (from the time you logged in).

For part three: These are your posts, comments, upvotes, downvotes, etc. This is stored this until you delete your comment/post or undo your upvote/downvote. When you delete your account, if you haven’t deleted your data, the connection (the association) between your account and the data itself is severed. This means that the comment will remain but the username value will be null.

tl;dr: I’m no expert but I think they keep a very small amount data. They probably do this to keep their costs as low as possible (but that is just my speculation).

If you’re really worried about data mining and data logging, you can always go back to reddit /s

bezerker03 ,

If you’re really worried about data mining and data logging, you can always go back to reddit /s

Or just run your own lemmy instance.

fdisk , to technology in I need Podcast app recommendations for Android/PC
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I’ve been using Pocket Casts on Android and it works well. I think that I started using it 2 years ago and I haven’t encountered any issues. I use the free version and it hasn’t asked me to pay and hasn’t shown me ads. I’m a light user when it comes to podcasts though.

They have a web player for PC, but I haven’t tried it.

skellener ,
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I think you pay if you want to use the desktop app. I paid. Works pretty everywhere. 😊👍

notevil ,
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@skellener @VoxAdActa @fdisk not if you use web

skellener ,
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Yes. Using the web is not using the desktop app, hence it is free. I preferred the app and supporting the developer, so I paid.

const_void , to asklemmy in What screams "poorly educated"?

Reckless driving, speeding, having a loud car, having a lifted pickup truck.

SmallAlmond , to gaming in Come join Beyond All Reason, a free open-source RTS akin to Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation

The fact that it is open source means it’s worth playing

OptimusPrimeDownfall OP ,
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Its got a team doing active updates, too. Been playing for a couple of years now and its only gotten better.

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