Is self hosting a matrix instance worth the effort ?
I want to setup a matrix instance to help increase friends and family’s privacy. Is there much value in creating my own instance?...
There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
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I want to setup a matrix instance to help increase friends and family’s privacy. Is there much value in creating my own instance?...
Hi Lemmy. I’m wondering if eating healthy or at least getting enough nutrients, would change a person’s outlook on certain things. Like I’m trying out keto and certain foods like avocadoes calm my mind down. I guess I’m asking if someone followed a keto diet or vegetarian/vegan lifestyle, would that shape their political...
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First of all sorry for saying that cursed name, but a school teacher asked me to install it on her laptop, i had no idea how to but after following some tutorials online, it displays this error:...
The heck is this nonsense? Instance admins please take note of this attempt to mislead the community members. @nutomic @dessalines @AgreeableLandscape...
so if you haven’t come across it, see here , here , here and here ....
I’ll be honest, this is as much a question as it is a vent....
Hello Lemmy,...
It feels refreshing like the old days of Reddit minus the bad stuff. People discussing hobbies, music, technology and stuff....
The USA/West-EU countries make up about 12% of the world’s population, yet have about 80% participation on Reddit. Statistics do not differ much for other sites, as I used to have a decent non-anonymous tech blog years ago, where Google and WordPress offered me similar statistics of 70-75% of the visitors being from the...
So, lemmy is a project I have been following since the beggining. With federation here, it seems like everything is aligned for it to become the reddit killer, pardon my expression....
Someone did it on r/privatelife, I removed it after notifying users for few hours, showing its annual $300K NED grants on NED website....
I assisted admins, caught and got banned over the past week a user noobda, who created accounts noobde, noobdaREBRN and now noobrao....
They are not only shitposting but also mass brigading, running down discussions to the ground.
For me, it was the toxic circlejerk (admins/mods as well) low quality content getting upvoted while high quality submissions not getting much attention/buried and obvious privacy issues.
Curious.
I always struggle with what sources I should be reading for news (particularly political news). I don’t want to read only sources that I agree with, but I also struggle finding news sources that aren’t sensationalist and put forward varied view points. Here are a few of the places I frequent (criticism of these sources or...