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One of the things I’m cautious about when it comes to lemmy (and mastodon) is how easy it can be to lose control of your account....

Why YSK: By using the built in cross post function users will be shown a link to the same post on other communities. This lets users quickly see what people in other communities are saying and also has the potential to expose someone to something new. For community owners this is a great way to go about seeding discussion in new...

When I subscribe in a community in another instance it always says "pending " in yellow. I can comment but I am not officially subscribed to the community. E.g. subscribing to “!nostupidquestions”...

I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven’t tried many DE’s on a laptop....

Why YSK: It's cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper

Since Internet search has and will change, which search engines do you use successfully, and what are their advantages?

Edit 2: Well I’ll be damned. An extremely knowledgeable and kind stranger just reverse-engineered the whole thing and poured it into a python script. And it’s only Monday. See comments for the script....

Hello SelfHosted!...

Why YSK: The term “Genuine Leather” is a marketing term to sell the lowest quality leather possible....

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it’s “dogshit” and “not going anywhere” get systematically upvoted....

lemmy.world/c/foss_gaming...

(Feel free to remove this as off-topic, but this relates to the post about the r/Piracy poll regarding what content will be permitted upon reopening. The body of this post wouldn’t get the same reach as a comment on that post.)...

Hi, I was planning on the VPS+Reverse proxy setup instead of port-forwarding from my home address (basically, Wireguard VPN to VPS box which will host a reverse proxy, be hardened and only open necessary ports). I will be hosting Pi-Hole+Unbound at home, and would like to access it from outside. I do not want to share my DNS...

I’m not sure on the ins and outs of hosting/running a 3rd part reddit app, but since reddit is claiming these API charges are only for apps that pull in big numbers, couldn’t the app creators just make a bunch of versions of the app with a limit to how many users can access it?...

Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?

Is it really just because of the fentanyl situation? I know there is a huge disagreement with how the strict rules for prescribing opioids are so tight even for chronic pain patients like myself who can’t participate in life without em struggle to find a provider who is willing to prescribe us them.

Use a libreddit mirror like reddit.adminforge.de to link to Reddit threads so that Reddit gets 0 traffic and 0 ad revenue from us opening the thread....

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Jack said twitter should have never been a company but thats even more true for reddit who’s whole businesses model is based on unpaid volunteers lemmy is what reddit should have always been community owned and community supported and open source

Most European languages seems to share a very large amount of their respective alphabets. The pronunciation may be different but the symbol is the same....

lemmy.world/c/k12sysadmin...