It only works for Germany I believe, but the best app (both for the actual forecasts and the nice widget) is the Deutsche Wetterdienst app - though thanks to legal shenanigans you have to pay a euro for it.
Welcome to Lemmy/the Fediverse! It’s 95% Reddit ant 5% email.
What is a server?
A server is just a computer that runs software that is always standing ready to do something for a user. For the purposes of our discussion, a server is the computer that runs an instance of Lemmy.
Let’s start with something we’re probably all familiar with: Reddit. The way Reddit works is, it’s a big company that owns (or rents) a bunch of servers. All of the data anyone has ever posted to Reddit, plus the software that makes Reddit go, is stored on these servers. Users open an account with Reddit, and they’re given access to these servers. Reddit controls ALL of them so it doesn’t matter much exactly which server you attach to. They might all be in one location, they might be scattered all over the world, it’s fairly transparent to users. The various websites or apps we (used to) use to connect to Reddit were simply front-ends which allowed us to access the server.
Lemmy is software that does a lot of what Reddit does. It’s software you run on your server which keeps track of users, communities, posts and comments. Unlike Reddit, which keeps its “back end” software a closely guarded secret, Lemmy is open source. Anyone can read the source code or run it on their own server.
What is an instance?
When someone runs a copy of Lemmy on their own server, that is an “instance.” Each Lemmy instance is its own little Reddit. You can sign up for an account on an instance, and the experience is very much like Reddit; “subreddits” are called “communities” here. The owner of the server is the admin, individual members can make posts to communities, comment on those posts, create new communities and moderate them…it’s its own little Reddit. lemmy.world is its own little reddit, sh.itjust.works is its own little reddit. Well what good does a bunch of little Reddits do?
What is a federation?
A federation is a group of independent organizations that work together as a group. Think of the United States of America: 50 states that each have their own constitutions, codes of law, legislatures, executives, courts etc. which are united under one common Federal government. Lemmy works this way; each instance is a member of the Fediverse, a federation of servers that run software which uses the ActivityPub protocol–a standardized way for servers to transfer various kinds of social media data between them.
Every instance of Lemmy is its own website, run on its own hardware, with its own communities, members, admins and such. Each instance will have its own house rules; some allow political discussions, some don’t. Some allow pornography, some don’t. Some restrict community topics to a broad field, like music or video games. Some are general purpose instances. It’s up to the admin of each instance. But, each instance is able to communicate with all of the others, so having an account on one instance allows you to communicate with all the others–with some caveats I’ll talk about later.
In fact, the ActivityPub protocol is used by other services besides Lemmy–another similar service is called Kbin, which is functionally similar but the software is written by different people. Lemmy instances can communicate with Kbin instances and vice versa.
So where every instance is its own little Reddit, all of the instances kinda voltron together to make one big Mega Reddit.
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ActivityPub is used for more than just Reddit-likes. Mastodon has a similar micro-blogging format to Twitter, and PeerTube is similar in function to Youtube. There are alternatives to Facebook and I believe Snapchat as well.
You can kind of think of it like email–there is no central email.inc that all emails go through; gmail and protonmail and icloud and compuserve and hotmail and whatnot are all different servers that are capable of using the internet to find each other and send messages back and forth.
How all this runs.
You sign up for an account on an instance, say lemmy.world. This is your local instance; your local instance will handle all of the data going to and from you. If you create a community, it will be stored on your local instance. You may notice that instance addresses look a little like email addresses, ie !nostupidquestions. That notes which instance that particular community is on. If you don’t see an instance name appended, it’s on your local instance.
When viewing lists of posts or communities, you are given an option to search for Subscribed, Local, and All. Subscribed will show you only communities you have subscribed to, it’s like your Reddit home feed. Local will show you only posts or communities made to your local instance. All will show you posts or communities from across the Fediverse. You can subscribe to, post and comment on communities from other instances, like I am doing now (my local instance is sh.itjust.works, I am posting to lemmy.world). It looks and works just like posting to my home instance.
A major difference users of Lemmy/the Fediverse should keep in mind: Reddit had platform-wide rules of conduct, which individual subreddits were allowed to expand upon. Lemmy does not have central admins or owners like u/spez to enforce platform-wide policy; those general rules come from the admins of each individual instance, which community moderators may add to. So rules and norms can vary between each instance, and when posting on an instance that isn’t your own, it’s a good idea to read the sidebar of that instance’s homepage to review them.
When you visit other instances through your home instance there is a delay/difference though as I assume your home instance has to get info from the remote instance before it can show it to you?
Or is that just because my account is on a tiny instance and I'm the first one visiting a lot of the communities?
When you visit other instances through your home instance there is a delay/difference though as I assume your home instance has to get info from the remote instance before it can show it to you?
Yes, but it helps if someone else on your home instance has subscribed before, since it would already have that information.
Or is that just because my account is on a tiny instance and I’m the first one visiting a lot of the communities?
Thank you so much for the breakdown. I’m gonna reference back to this a lot while i try to wrap my head around this new space. I’m grateful for everyone’s informative replies and your guys’ good-spirited attitude towards reddit transplants like myself.
I was a long time reddit lurker but I feel compelled to post and it’s responses like yours that made me feel comfortable doing so.
TLDR: Thank you so much to everyone who broke it down for me. I’m having lots of fun in this space because of y’all and I am so excited to continue contributing to it.
That’s what I use and it’s the best weather app I’ve seen so far. The coolest thing is, when you’re choosing weather providers, it will show you the current forecast for each one, so you can compare them better.
And it has so many widgets that are easy to configure.
I wouldn’t risk it personally. If you want to de-google your phone you should probably unlock the bootloader (you’ll lose all data) and flash a custom rom
Yeah. Probably LineageOS ROM. But you should use microG instead of proprietary GApps. Since I use such a bundle myself, at one time I left a post on Reddit with setup instructions. Link. If your phone is Pixel, then check GrapheneOS.
Both would keep exiating. I imagine it like a federation on the community level. [email protected] could federate with [email protected] and when you view one of the two, you would see the contents of both as if they were one community. When creating a post you would still need to decide to which of both you want to post it, though. This would make sure that there are no problems in the case of "defederation".
That's how I imagine the whole thing. Not sure if there are any negative side effects I can't think of right now, though.
I think this is probably the case for men. I have lovely friends, male and female who are there for me and really supported me in my darkest times. But, I can never really be as close to them as I would be with a girlfriend. I’ve noticed women can have very intimate and fulfilling relationships with each other in a way men can’t have (at least not in today’s society)
That being said, personally after some experiences I don’t really feel like having a lover because I feels to me, maybe this’ll change in the future, that as a man you have to repress your feelings a lot and be the tough one, don’t show insecurities or too much vulnerability because whether they choose to or not it’ll turn women off.
One of my female friends told me before that I shouldn’t show any insecurity in a relationship. I’m not an extremely insecure person but I can feel that way sometimes, which is normal and human. So I guess I can’t be a normal human in a relationship.
Sorry for the rant, I guess I needed to get some stuff off my chest haha
I think this is probably the case for men. I have lovely friends, male and female who are there for me and really supported me in my darkest times. But, I can never really be as close to them as I would be with a girlfriend. I’ve noticed women can have very intimate and fulfilling relationships with each other in a way men can’t have (at least not in today’s society)
That being said, personally after some experiences I don’t really feel like having a lover because I feels to me, maybe this’ll change in the future, that as a man you have to repress your feelings a lot and be the tough one, don’t show insecurities or too much vulnerability because whether they choose to or not it’ll turn women off.
One of my female friends told me before that I shouldn’t show any insecurity in a relationship. I’m not an extremely insecure person but I can feel that way sometimes, which is normal and human. So I guess I can’t be a normal human in a relationship.
Sorry for the rant, I guess I needed to get some stuff off my chest haha
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