I have to give an elevator pitch for an assignment, and thinking of pitching the fediverse. Any advice? Resources?
Audience is college students + 1 professor...
Why is the PeerTube app situation still terrible?
The way I see it, the mobile app ecosystem for PeerTube has yet to take off, in spite of the fact that it has a seemingly decent API. More people appear to be using the platform than ever before, which is great, but we still seem to be lacking a general ecosystem that Mastodon or even Lemmy has....
Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?
Like others, I came over when Reddit was banning 3rd party apps. Many communities were being started and I wanted to help. So I chose one community to form here and try and grow. And we did! There was a time a short while in the little KC Chiefs community was in the top 100 communities on Lemmy world. I knew that wouldn’t last...
RTS recommendation
What beginner friendly RTS game can you recommend?...
What are You Working on Wednesday
Weekly thread to discuss whatever you’re working on, big or small, at work or in your free time.
When will I be able to block entire instances? I heard it was coming.
Firealpaca (Proprietary Painting Software) Releases Linux Version
From their Twitter:...
Wait, the ZimaCube has a private GPT implementation?
Hi everyone, was just going over the ZimaCube page on ZimaBoard’s website: www.zimaboard.com/zimacube/...
Experienced meditators probably have less earworms (explanation in the body of the post).
Thinking a thought is like watering a plant in a garden. Your attention is the sprinkler. The more you water a plant (up to a point, of course), the more the plant grows....
When did fish become recognized as brain food? Historically speaking.
Switching to Android: good resources for learning?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7967624...
Intelligence Mod Webdoodle Banned and Removed as Top Mod without notification
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7676305...
Self hosted sticker chart?
Does anyone know of a self hosted service that does kids sticker charts? Here’s what I had in mind:...
How should one come up with an idea?
like what are the best methods to get the brain active to create something, most of the things i want to require an idea but the truth is i have nothing and im not sure how to get an idea or if its even possible for me due to my autism or how my brain works....
Ripping spotify
The spotify app keeps getting worse by the week. At this point it won’t load my saved song list at all when I’m offline. While writing this, it just crashed in the background....
If you can say enough things about a thing does that mean that you know what the thing is?
Ubuntu server can't connect to some sites when qbittorrent is running
Hey all, ran into a weird issue with my Ubuntu server running qbittorrent-nox I can’t seem to figure out....
Is there an *arr service for video games?
I dream of a program suite like [Overseer+Jacket+Sonaar+Plex] which would search, download and organize a video game library....
any problem about test communities?
hello guys,...
Why is Steam (Windows PC version) the only program (to my knowledge) that natively snaps to windows displays?
Try it. Move your Steam window around. See how it snaps to the edges of your display(s)?...
How do Sonarr / related services work?
Recently learned about this stuff on a Lemmy World post and I thought I’d move the conversation here since they’ve been fussy about DB0 in the past....
Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using?
EDIT: Thanks so much guys! This was really helpful, and I didn’t imagine so many would help out!...
qBit using .62Gigs of memory per torrent. Is this normal?
Running Docker-ized qBittorrent v4.6.0. 64-bit on Ubuntu 23.10. Seeding 29 torrents, Leeching 0 torrents....
Humans are similar to cancer cells
Cancer cells are cells that keep growing even when they are told to stop. They continue to grow even when they are a detriment to the body. They consume a large amount of resources and they have no regard for the future even though their unsustainable growth will always lead to the death of their host and to themselves....
Did racist use the "biological advantage" argument when Black athletes started competing alongside white athletes?
Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...