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meldrik

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The maintainer of “What the Fediverse” and an avid Guild Wars 2 player.

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meldrik ,

It was nice to see this meme in reverse for once.

"Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy [...] The software is downright frustrating to work with" - Can any other instance admins relate to this?

After a year online the free speech-focused instance ‘Burggit’ is shutting down. Among other motivations, the admins point to grievances with the Lemmy software as one of the main reasons for shutting down the instance. In a first post asking about migrating to Sharkey, one of the admins states:...

meldrik ,

Only the storage usage has been a problem for me, but that is much easier to handle now. I do wish there was some better documentation for exactly that.

Doorbell kamera solution

Hi, anyone have any good self hosted solution for a doorbell camera? What I need is to have the option to look at who is at the door and be able to actuate a lock (relay operated). I have a cheap Chinese brand solution, but it uses an unknown cloud solution and is very unreliable. A phone app would be fine, but if there’s a...

meldrik ,

I use a Ubiquiti doorbell, which operates locally. However you do need some extra equipment to set it up.

meldrik ,

I prefer laptops, because they are mobile and doesn’t take up much space.

meldrik ,

Tomorrow Lemmy.wtf will also be one year 🎉🎉

meldrik ,

What’s a “green server”?

meldrik ,

The Lounge. Very convenient to use.

meldrik ,

Kevin just wanna sleep with ya!

meldrik OP ,

I’m thinking it should be any kind of video games, regardless of the platform.

I also imagine stuff like board games could be on there.

meldrik ,

This is a setting by the admin of that Pixelfed instance. Try another instance, if you are unhappy with the quality.

meldrik ,

Not natively in Pixelfed.

meldrik ,

Also consider that Instagram uses aggressive image compression and then you import from that to Pixelfed, which also does its own compression. No wonder the quality is questionable.

Have you tried adding an original image to Pixelfed?

meldrik ,

Makes sense to me. Their games isn’t made for their community and player base anymore. It’s made for their shareholders and they don’t care about BlizzCon.

meldrik ,

You can disable P2P.

You will only see content from other instances, if your instance federates with them.

However, some instances allow “global search”, which means you can practically find everything through search, from all the other instances.

It’s also possible to subscribe to channels from other instances, even though your instance does not federate with said instance.

If you go to the About > Network page, you can see which instances is federated with yours.

meldrik ,

This is how the settings look like for a PeerTube admin, regarding global search and subscribing to remote channels:

https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/096c6369-29f1-4b65-bd6c-c5eada44cbc0.jpeg

meldrik ,

https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/4ed40aff-f8b0-47d0-94e6-b3f6aa306acc.jpeg

Look for this, under the about page of the instance.

meldrik ,

Who need that much storage on their phone? Honestly asking.

meldrik ,

That make sense. Thanks.

meldrik ,

What do you use all that storage for?

meldrik ,

Thanks. That sounds pretty cool.

meldrik ,

Just learned about Revolt.chat. It looks to have great potential. It’s basically a Discord clone.

meldrik ,

It doesn’t work if you use iCloud or a custom domain with iCloud.

I ended up using Protonmail.

meldrik ,

Can’t find the answer via a search engine though. You first have to find out where to look for the answer, before you can ask it.

meldrik ,

Matrix is great at what it does, but it’s not a replacement for Discord imho.

meldrik ,

Couldn’t agree more. Revolt is still in it’s infancy, but it has great potential.

meldrik ,

A major reason that Windows is “popular” is because it’s pre-installed on desktops and laptops. Users don’t have a choice when they go to the store to buy a laptop for doing banking stuff or save pictures from their old camcorder.

It’s the same way with browsers. IE was “popular”, but only because that was the browser that was pre-installed on Windows. The IE browser was complete shit.

meldrik ,

That’s not the segment I am talking about. I’m talking about “regular folks”, who know nothing about IT, but need a laptop for whatever reason. Checking their bank, mail… That’s the majority of Windows users. Not the PC builder. They probably don’t even know what “Windows” is, if you asked them.

If Linux were pre-installed on PC’s, most people wouldn’t even notice a difference, because all they need is a browser and maybe an office suite, for very simple work.

meldrik ,

What needs to happen is that all the laptop makers, HP, Lenovo Acer etc. start having Linux pre-installed on their laptops in the stores. That probably won’t happen, as I imagine that Microsoft pays these companies to sell their laptops with Windows on them.

meldrik ,

What’s your issue with Cider, if you don’t mind me asking?

meldrik ,

I think you are partially right, but I think the only reason Windows is easier for the user, is because they are pre-exposed to Windows.

If you took someone, who has zero knowledge of any OS or its GUI, I honestly doubt that Windows would be better.

It’s the same if you take a person who has only known MacOS their whole life and ask them to navigate in Windows… or vice versa… You won’t see positive results.

meldrik , (edited )

What do you mean by safe?

meldrik ,

briarproject.org

meldrik ,

Tragic how the abused has become the abuser.

meldrik ,

I see it as an opportunity to tell people on Threads to leave Threads and use an open platform, such as Mastodon, instead. Then eventually Threads will shut down, because everyone moved :D

meldrik ,

It’s going to be awesome when we get an official PeerTube app for Android and iOS!

meldrik ,

Well, the OPi Zero 3 only has USB 2, which is slow.

You could attach something like this: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403740942791?hash=item5e00d5e1…

Don’t expect it to be fast.

meldrik ,

Who are they?

meldrik ,

No, you cannot.

meldrik ,

Give them a trip to Auschwitz in Poland and they’ll soon believe it existed.

meldrik ,

What do you actually think? 🤔 Field trip.

meldrik OP ,

Time will tell 😁

meldrik ,

True, could be nice to see data on content consumers, and not just the content creators.

meldrik ,

That’s crazy! User/month goes from only 7.5k active to 27.8k. And that’s just people voting. What about people who only read a post?

meldrik ,

I would recommend you use this list: instances.joinpeertube.org

You should use an instance that has enabled global search and uses search.joinpeertube.org. This way, you can find content, even though the instances is not federated.

Also, TILvids and Blender Videos are instances for specific videos, for “general purpose” instances to follow. Most of the above instances also use very old versions of PeerTube. We are at verison 6.0 now. So I think they might be inactive, therefore not following more instances.

Here’s an instance that does follow spectra.video > peertube.wtf (my instance), but I also only follow a select few instances, because there is a lot of crap being uploaded to the videoverse and that just makes for a worse experience.

There is nothing however that would keep you from searching for or following any channel, on peertube.wtf because global search is enabled.

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