The new major version of Lemmy is now ready, and we need your help with testing. Most importantly it uses HTTP for API requests now, which is much more efficient than websocket. Additionally Two-factor-auth is supported. There are also countless other improvements and bug fixes....
The federated concept is nice. But I feel like what will happen in the end is that most of the content will end up on few instances. This still gives power to the owners of these instances, and if they delete the instance a lot of people would lose accounts?...
People who want near-perfect distribution of power often talk about the serverless model. It's sounds like it might work for something like e-mail, but I don't see how it's possible for something like Lemmy. This comment it cached on every instance with one person who follows it.
Atm, keeping Lemmy going for a couple of days might require 50 Gigabytes and lots of bandwidth. If you put that on a mobile phone, it'll be a 50 Gig app, which will drain all your data in minutes.
But I think chatboards work well with servers, so it doesn't seem like a problem.
I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having...
Having 'no single source of truth' is part of the joy.
If you're not happy with /r/cars moderators banning everyone who drives a Skoda, then you're out of luck. Here in federation land, you can just go to a different lemmy.something/c/cars place.
Of course you can still follow and interact with all the /c/cars communities from any Lemmy instance (and interact a little from Mastodon).
Beehaw is a community of individuals and therefore does not have any specific political affiliation. At this point in time, we do not know what the political leanings of most of our users are. I would suspect that many of them would identify as progressive because we are explicitly a safe space for minorities. What we stand for...
I just made a lemmy.world account after hearing about the mods on lemmy.ml, but when I posted a picture of winnie the pooh, the comment was deleted, and I was marked as a bot. And it sounds like beehaw's not open for new registrations.
I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts....
It's all a little arbitrary. When you create a new service (like Lemmy, or Mastodon), you can have them link with anything, in any fashion you like. The defaults are mostly sensible.
For example, I've just made a mastodon post asking /r/casual a question. Once that synchronizes across, you'll see the topic over there.
Anthropology books taught me that humanity is more fantastic than all the fantasy races.
The Mbuti sang and danced as they walked, to scare away snakes. They had no words for 'good', and 'bad', so Christian missionaries couldn't translate their teachings.
The Azande believed in a predictable universe, and ascribed all misfortune (including death), to magical bad intentions (translated as 'witchcraft', but I'm not sure that's a great translation)
The Piraha language needed you to say how you learnt something inside the verb, so rumours are grammatically impossible. Their language had four modes, including 'whistling'.
I'm putting everything in the past tense as my info is about 50 years out of date.
This looks like rather good advice, and I like the comparison to brutalist architecture. It feels like it fits, because so many seem to think brutalist architecture is ugly....
It seems like these communities are a lot more focused on original content than reddit somehow, unless i'm missing something. Like, Mastodon seems to have loads of bots reposting stuff straight from twitter. I guess i'm wondering why i don't see more reddit content bots, or shameless reposts. Is it to save server space? Is it...
I should clarify that there's no karma, because there are very few users. Once there are more people, some users will try to make a bot which farms karma, for the usual reasons.
Reposting definitely serves some useful function, but too much reposting from Reddit will just make Lemmy feel like a cheap knock-off. At this early stage, I feel like new content and chat works better, but that's just an intuition.
The reddit piracy community was in a neverending struggle to avoid being banned from the site, constantly censoring and restricting what people could post to keep the reddit admins happy. What's the situation with that sort of thing on lemmy? Is it a free for all? Same situation as back there? Something in between? I guess we...
Judging by the IP address, lemmy.ml seems to be located in France. That's not fantastic for take-down notices, as far as I'm aware.
I'm in Serbia, land of the free, home of the torrents. I don't know if there are VPS providers here, but if so, it's a good country for hosting anything but government criticism (not that you'd need to criticize Vućić the benevolent, long may he reign).
Yea, we got some growing pains. I hope Lemmy.ml has prepared for Monday. If the tinyest percentage of Reddit comes along (and I've been mentions of Lemmy in many subreddits) then this place will experience a deluge.
I've seen multiple requests for nsfw lemmy communities like reddit has. I live in Germany, and I think you are required to verify that the users that see porn content are above the age of 18. Does Lemmy has or plan to have a feature for that? Maybe this should be an issue on github?
Yea, I have no idea why people are even attempting this nonsense. Perhaps they think that 'computers are magic', because it's quite clear that nobody would try to verify someone's age when it comes to posting images through snail-mail.
Of course if they wanted to give it a proper go, maybe someone could make a real age test:
That's a really clean solution, and works well with the Side Quest system in the book (there's an explicit system).
Of course it'll mean a boat-load of additional Story Points: 7 quests completed = 7 Story Points, but I think the plot can handle all the side-characters and locations as long as they're small boons, rather than a full Deus Ex Machina.
The pride itself is a backlash. When I was in high school, teachers couldn't mention the existence of homosexuality. Once the violent bigotry calms down, we'll probably see an end to pride parades, or maybe it'll become another one-day holiday, like Hallowe'en, but for rainbows.
The rainbows will continue until morale improves. Hopefully I'll live long enough to see the need for pride parades calm down (but we may as well keep at least one flamboyant rainbow-day).
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG (www.theregister.com)
Lemmy 0.18 is ready for testing
The new major version of Lemmy is now ready, and we need your help with testing. Most importantly it uses HTTP for API requests now, which is much more efficient than websocket. Additionally Two-factor-auth is supported. There are also countless other improvements and bug fixes....
Void Linux custom /etc/issue file (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/117605...
How a a Rural Community in Armenia Built Their Own Internet (www.internetsociety.org)
Notes on a Semi-Successful Skill System (udan-adan.blogspot.com)
How to make instances have even less power?
The federated concept is nice. But I feel like what will happen in the end is that most of the content will end up on few instances. This still gives power to the owners of these instances, and if they delete the instance a lot of people would lose accounts?...
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
I really want to like Lemmy
I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having...
lay it all bare, show me yalls fetch
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/6fa7b8b6-e42a-4135-85b2-4aeab1ac0639.png
On Politics and Forking
Beehaw is a community of individuals and therefore does not have any specific political affiliation. At this point in time, we do not know what the political leanings of most of our users are. I would suspect that many of them would identify as progressive because we are explicitly a safe space for minorities. What we stand for...
Federation is pretty cool
I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts....
/r/Conservative is going to save Reddit (lemmy.ca)
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What are the most beneficial RPG books a DM/GM can read?
In your opinion, what are the best RPG sourcebooks/supplements/resources?
Brutalist Game Design (www.revenant-quill.com)
This looks like rather good advice, and I like the comparison to brutalist architecture. It feels like it fits, because so many seem to think brutalist architecture is ugly....
Anime streaming apps
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1190766...
Im new, and wonder why we don't see more reposting
It seems like these communities are a lot more focused on original content than reddit somehow, unless i'm missing something. Like, Mastodon seems to have loads of bots reposting stuff straight from twitter. I guess i'm wondering why i don't see more reddit content bots, or shameless reposts. Is it to save server space? Is it...
How's the censorship around here?
The reddit piracy community was in a neverending struggle to avoid being banned from the site, constantly censoring and restricting what people could post to keep the reddit admins happy. What's the situation with that sort of thing on lemmy? Is it a free for all? Same situation as back there? Something in between? I guess we...
Age Verification On Lemmy
I've seen multiple requests for nsfw lemmy communities like reddit has. I live in Germany, and I think you are required to verify that the users that see porn content are above the age of 18. Does Lemmy has or plan to have a feature for that? Maybe this should be an issue on github?
Help me save a darling system
Story Points...
"I find your lack of pride disturbing": All schools must comply, amidst Pride backlash (nationalpost.com)
https://archive.md/S3p7T
What RPG are you currently playing?
Right now I am waiting for Fragged Empire 2 to be released.