Are there instances that run modified versions of the base Lemmy software? For example, that use their own sorting algorithms, or provide users ways to block instances or specific users, etc?...
The instances that have been developing custom features (IIRC lemm.ee and a couple others) have been contributing them back into the main Lemmy project, so everyone else ends up eventually getting them.
Edit: I’ve seen a community for instance owners and devs somewhere but don’t remember the name, hopefully someone else remembers
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !breadtube
On Reddit, there was r/redditrequest where you could request subreddits that were abandoned by moderators. Where can I request a community, just like how Reddit handled subreddit requests?
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !support
It seems I’ve been using Home Assistant forever – at least 5 years, maybe 6. I’ve gotten pretty good at it and have a fairly complex setup. Between YAML and Node-RED, there’s generally no problem I can’t solve given enough time and brain sweat....
The ruling sought to clarify the medical exceptions in the state’s bans, and was in a response to a lawsuit from women who were denied abortions despite medical emergencies.
There is a such a thing as an affirmative defense, though. An affirmative defense allows a person to commit an act that would otherwise be illegal under certain circumstances. However, as the name implies, an affirmative defense has to be argued by the defense. The burden is on the defense to prove that they acted under the circumstances permitted.
Consider murder, for instance. Self-defense is usually an affirmative defense. The prosecutor's only burden is to prove that you killed someone. You have to demonstrate that you were acting in self defense in order to avoid the guilty verdict for murder.
So @vettnerk is asking a good question: will it be assumed that the doctor acted in good faith, or bad faith? Does the defense have to justify the abortion, or does the prosecutor have to demonstrate that it wasn't necessary?
There is no such thing as “global search” in the fediverse. (Unless you use off-instance tools like lemmyverse)
Search can only return results that at least one local user has interacted with (meaning, subbed to).
The exception is when entering the url or exact name of a user or community. In these cases the server will actually contact the other instance, to establish a new federated connection. For a given community to appear on a given instance, at least one user must do this, and subscribe.
Until that happens, an instance will not receive incoming content related to that community, and hence it will not show up in search results.
Triggering this behaviour requires you to be logged in, and for the client to support detecting that you’re doing so, and sending the relevant, different, authenticated API call.
Additionally, if you are that first person, even once the community starts getting federated, it takes a while for the content to start coming over. Are you sure you were seeing “copies” and not just half-synced newly federated communities? Old comments and votes do not get synced when the connection is first started by a first subscriber from a given instance. Also, the subcount you see only tells you how many subs the community has from your instance, not globally.
I tried to log in but took to long to put in the confirmation maybe? Now I can’t get back to the instance name, when I click lemmy on sign in with it just disappears.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !canvas
if not the solution, I then search for “dd [term]” which goes to duckduckgo. Solves mostly the rest.
If not, and I am really desperate, I try: “dd !g [term]” so it goes to ddg, redirects to google and then I am reminded how bad a first page result can be. Only ads, sponsored entries and only big company names. Good luck finding anything from a forum or a small blog on google today. All the search words are bundled up in company results that has nothing to do with the topic.
Ironically, from what I’ve seen the sync users have been way more radical than the “anti-sync” users.
Before you read this I cannot stress enough that I’m neutral in this, I’m just a little irritated that I’m now seeing this in basically every sub.
There’s been examples of the reverse from both sides, but the fact that I am now seeing this spam about pointless shit like this on shitpost is proof of this.
It is just an app, both of you. Sync dev should donate some profit (even as small as 1%) to Lemmy devs because his app relies on their software. App itself doesn’t have to be free but if it includes anti-features in the name of profits it is only fair, otherwise it is an exploitation of the GPL.
Lemmy being a FOSS project with no ads running, it is pretty much up to devs pockets, instances pockets, and donations to keep the project going. If the sync developer is going to make money off of an app that essentially serves as a gateway to this service, ethically speaking he should contribute to it considering the software itself is what even makes the app function. If Lemmy were to shutdown, the app would be useless.
Having been involved in the FOSS community for 18 years, the community heavily relies on the collaboration, contributions, and donations of those who partake in it. Without at least one of those things, the project dies, I have seen it hundreds of times now. Wherever you (all of you) may stand when it comes to FOSS, know that using Lemmy technically makes you a part of that community.
We will see if the people here are sane or not by watching the karma of this post. If it is negative then the people in this argument are blinded by unnecessary rage and need to cool it.
With all the talk about expensive clients, how to fund the developers and big instances not managing to keep up with the influx of users, I’d like to tell you about my work on Communick and what I am proposing as an alternative model for a sustainable growth of the Fediverse....
I’d say it’s more about elasticity. Scaling is just very narrow aspect of elasticity.
To give you some specific example, there’s a company (that I won’t name) that by law has to have all data on premises. They have local cloud in their own datacentre. Part of that cloud is a set of powerful servers with ton of GPUs. Daytime they spin up VMs that employees can log into and have remote desktop for graphically intensive tasks.
Now you might be thinking “wait a second, they can’t easily add GPUs in the morning as employees log in, there is no scaling and thus no cloud!” And by that definition you’d be right. But what they do with their cloud is that as the demand for VDI drops in the evening, they will start allocating the GPU and CPU resources to completely different kind of VMs that do overnight data crunching. (think geospatial data) It’s completely different OS, the servers are in server subnet, not VDI network, etc… So they are using the elasticity, but it’s not just scaling.
Another counterexample is pretty frequent issue on AWS, where they momentarily run out of specific instance type in specific region. AWS support “will do their best” but you’re often looking at hours of wait time before you get your instance. Now depending where you live you could go buy a server and deploy it in your own DC faster than that. Has AWS stopped being cloud provider? No, you can use the elasticity and either spawn different instance type (if your workload allows that) or in different region/AZ. You might have been just trying to replace one instance with another, not even trying to scale up, it’s just the capacity for replacement wasn’t there.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !internetfuneral
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !internetfuneral
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !patientgamers
Ah, you’re right, Connect is just for Android. Though I do remember hearing of an iOS Lemmy app that could block instances at a user level, but I’m sorry to say I don’t remember the name.
That being said, I fully agree with you on relying on instance admins to defederate / block instances. I prefer to have the agency to choose for myself what gets blocked / not blocked. Though I can’t complain about my instance’s decisions so far, thankfully.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !newcommunities
Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty....
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !worldbuilding
I have to disagree. Consolidation seems almost never to improved anything. Take Reddit, for example. I once found a sub called HikingAndCamping. Since I’m a hiker, I looked it over. The top mod only allowed discussions of hiking and camping on Mt Everest (or some equally nonsensical narrow topic). Since I actually wanted to discuss hiking and camping generally, I tried to create CampingAndHiking as a more accessible community. But that same top mod had already claimed that name as well under an alt. Reddit refused to do anything, but when they notified him that I had requested the dead sub (no posts and the alt hadn’t logged in for years), he jumped in and created a single “Go away” post. Then he sent me a private message to the effect of “I’m squatting to keep traffic flowing to my other sub. You want to talk about hiking and camping in general? Sucks to be you.”
Here, I’d just go to another instance and create the c/ that we wanted and move along. That’s part of the beauty of federation. Users can then join the one(s) that appeal to them and everyone gets to have their community.
The syntax is often terrible (how it handles escape characters, for instance) but there’s usually a well-meaning backwards compatibility reason for that. It’s also flawed in many many other ways (classes, package management, variable scoping just to name a few).
But god damn if I can’t bash (no pun intended, har har) out code to do most things very quickly in it. It’s a fantastically accessible language, and it’s a lot more powerful than it gets credit for.
This is a feature, not a bug. Yes you need the instance as well as the community name. This is akin to complaining that you can’t type in a URL without including the TLD (*.com, *.org, *.wtevs).
I am open to an explanation how you can expect to find a community without both pieces of information. There may be a less confusing way to structure the links, but the community name and instance name are basically required for a federated system.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !hoyaprendi
Customised Lemmy Instances?
Are there instances that run modified versions of the base Lemmy software? For example, that use their own sorting algorithms, or provide users ways to block instances or specific users, etc?...
How Police Make Up The Law (ft. LegalEagle) | Philosophy Tube (www.youtube.com)
Check out c/breadtube for more left video content and discussion....
Only Composite Kids Will Get It (i.imgur.com)
Star Trek presence on Canvas growing! (canvas.toast.ooo)
– The SNW command delta is complete....
How can I request a community?
On Reddit, there was r/redditrequest where you could request subreddits that were abandoned by moderators. Where can I request a community, just like how Reddit handled subreddit requests?
Success: Using ChatGPT to solve a complex HA task involving YAML and Lovelace
It seems I’ve been using Home Assistant forever – at least 5 years, maybe 6. I’ve gotten pretty good at it and have a fairly complex setup. Between YAML and Node-RED, there’s generally no problem I can’t solve given enough time and brain sweat....
Texas Judge Says Doctors Can Use ‘Good Faith Judgment’ in Providing Abortions (www.nytimes.com)
The ruling sought to clarify the medical exceptions in the state’s bans, and was in a response to a lawsuit from women who were denied abortions despite medical emergencies.
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Somme Lemmy user started a r/place version for Lemmy, feel free to join (canvas.toast.ooo)
Look guys! There's a Lemmy version of r/place happening! (lemmy.ml)
canvas.toast.ooo
Which privacy-focused search engine are you using?
TL;DR - which privacy-focused search engine do people recommend, preferably one that can also easily be used as a default option in Safari?...
As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲 (startrek.website)
Introducing lestat.org - Lemmy instance status monitor for all popular instances (lemdit.com)
cross-posted from: lemdit.com/post/408034...
PSA: Communick is a privacy-focused provider of fediverse instances, pledging to donate 20% of its profits to FOSS projects
With all the talk about expensive clients, how to fund the developers and big instances not managing to keep up with the influx of users, I’d like to tell you about my work on Communick and what I am proposing as an alternative model for a sustainable growth of the Fediverse....
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? (www.wired.com)
What's your favourite Lemmy community so far?
Just curious and want more to sub to :)
When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps (reddthat.com)
From Steam’s self-published stats....
Do you feel this place has gotten more.. reddit-y lately?
Of course, that’s to be expected, with people migrating from Reddit and all, but the title is kind of badly worded....
Sort Communities Page By New Communities?
Is this feature requested / planned / exists?
Lemmy is slowly getting better
Just a little rant. When I first visited Lemmy Sites a couple of months ago it felt empty. Besides the really mainstream community pretty much everything else just felt empty....
What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like?
What non-technical criticisms do you have of the Lemmy/kbin/link aggregator fediverse experience?
Exclude explicit software bugginess or missing features...
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