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I purchased a black paint marker. When I get new electronics, I turn off the lights at night and all eye-offenders get the hose.

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Better off you never learn.

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I’m a big fan of poster putty (also called Blue Tack, basically the semi sticky putty you use to hang posters) for holding small objects. Helping hands are great for certain things, but it takes time to position every object just right.

If I have a bunch of short wires to tin, for instance, i roll out a little snake of the putty and place the wires all in a row. Then I can just touch the iron to each piece as needed. It’s really handy stuff so I keep a ball in my soldering kit.

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I found the ansible playbook route described at join-lemmy.org to be very easy to install on a VPS. The benefit of a VPS is much simpler setup than running a home server, networking-wise. Plus it’s special purpose, so no need to worry about interfering with other things as you would on a multi purpose server.

I use mine as basically a personal blog that I have a bit more control over. I’ve subscribed to just a few communities on other instances to keep resource use modest.

Can Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines?

One of the best things about reddit was looking for answers or other users with the same problem as you, and since Google didn’t really help with that anymore and instead insisted on giving you business results, the best practice was to put your search terms in followed by ‘reddit’ and you’d find your answer.

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I’ve been experimenting with my instance and google does index my lemmy.mitchday.com page. If you search ‘lemmy mitch day’, you get my page right up top and a few motorhead fans named mitch down below.

My experiment involves trying to SEO a vanity domain I’ve had for years and only used for email. Since July 4, the page ranking for my general site has steadily climbed. The little bit of traffic from other instances and a handful of subscriptions seems to be impacting the ranking.

Anyone else wish for a federated version of LinkedIn?

My tendency seems to be owning my own business and freelancing until I die (until I get stable enough to build my own products). I've been trying to connect with more business-minded people--"average of 5 people" type of mentality. Currently it seems that the only way of doing this is LinkedIn....

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It’s a great idea! Would the ActivityPub protocol contain enough user information as-is? I think it does.

I’m using my Lemmy instance as a personal blog/extension of my LinkedIn. I control the instance and have it kind of locked down policy-wise.

Over time as I master the administration I will post maker projects and other personal projects. So the only thing that keeps you from doing it is how you use lemmy. LinkedIn is unique among “social” medias in that your verified real name and identity is associated with your profile. Nothing stops you from associating your real self with your lemmy account and completely controlling a single instance.

I’m pursuing a hybrid approach. I cross link my LinkedIn with my personal sites so people who find one can easily find the other. I’m at a stage in my career where recruiters actually are welcome because they bring genuine opportunities for my somewhat specialized background.

It’s all an experiment and it will take time to see if it’s worthwhile. In the meantime, I enjoy watching Lemmy grow and learning how to manage my own online persona.

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I’m trying out using my lemmy instance as a personal blog, more or less.

I have one community with pretty locked down settings and super SFW policy. Over time I will post things that might be of interest or that I want to show off. I selectively subscribe to some other communities on larger instances to get some visibility and be part of the conversation. But really Im using lemmy to drive traffic to my custom domain and as a way to SEO.

I have another personal use account on another instance I don’t own but that I align with philosophically. That’s where I keep my main collection of communities Im interested in.

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Id say no. Karma leads to gamification and gamification leads to enshittification.

I’d rather have lower traffic and higher quality. Karma is of real benefit only to commercial owners, not users.

How do server upkeep costs look like for fediverse stuff?

I’m pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

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I run a personal instance with only two human users and a couple of accounts each (admin and daily use). I use a DigitalOcean droplet with 2gb of memory and 80Gb of storage. With a dozen or so communities, my disk usage since July 4 is at about 12gb.

My total monthly cost with weekly backups is about $14 USD. If the storage demands keep going up, my cost will increase to about $19/month

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