With news of the scab reddit apps preparing to charge $2-3 per month to stay alive, now's a good time to remind everyone that you can actually save money by only donating $1-2 per month to your favorite home server instead! That's $12 per year of savings. You can't afford to not donate in this economy....
I've noticed several people remarking on something that leapt out at me when I first starting using Lemmy at the beginning of the week: Topic redundancy....
So I notice that KBIN and BEEHAW and LEMMY all have duplicate pages dedicated to the same content. Are we as a community going to have to decide which page will be the 'main' page, will we have to subscribe to each magazine for each instance, or will they consolidate eventually?...
I am so sorry if this is not the appropriate place to post this here. I have tried the last few days to get kBin to federate the above listed community. If this is the wrong way to go about it, please respectfully let me know and I will promptly fix it. Thank you!...
“After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community.”
I set up a personal instance using masto.host. It’s a small operation that I believe is run by one person. Hugo has been great about responding to my questions....
Preparing Lemmy for a migration influx of Reddit users after June 30th requires some planning and consideration. Here are some steps I think we should do in orther to make things a bit more smoothly this time....
I made this instance along with a copy of the subreddit I created almost 10 years ago as a place for people to share psychedelic art that they like. Hopefully there isn't some rule about sharing instances on other instances. Also not sure exactly if its possible to share a link to a community from another instance on this...