@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

ElectroVagrant

@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

Another traveler of the wireways.

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ElectroVagrant,

This could also be the gateway into instance transference. If the instances are more in-sync, it will be easier to transfer either a user account or a community.

I think this is perhaps the most compelling part of your thinking here, but at the same time, I'm more drawn by the idea of improved portability of instance information than the synchronization.

I may be mistaken, but I think a fundamental aspect of the federation model is the independent operations of each community while enabling their intercommunication, and the sort of synchronization you suggest would be a violation of each instance's autonomy to a degree. Not to say it's a bad idea, just that I think it would better fit a different networking model than what I think the federated model seems to be pursuing.

ElectroVagrant,

I'm not sure what they're referring to (maybe a misunderstanding? they're from kbin), but there are no settings for this on Lemmy yet, unfortunately. However, the automatic post updating is something they're working on atm.

ElectroVagrant,

Yeah, I know what ya mean. I've been taking a closer look at Kbin and there are some elements I like, but like Lemmy, there's rough edges (e.g. inability to collapse comment threads, image viewing quirks, etc.) that make neither entirely ideal yet.

Here's to hoping both improve in their own ways!

ElectroVagrant,

Absolutely get where you're coming from on belts. Recently had such a time with them. The faux leather stuff just doesn't hold its shape, and in the worst case falls apart like you mention. Fortunately mine didn't get that bad, but one of them's getting there.

I've switched to looking for ones made of other materials as a result.

ElectroVagrant,

Heya @MegaEsoj, on Kbin you need to drop the exclamation point when searching for it, or add the at sign to the start instead, e.g. @wetshaving.

ElectroVagrant,

Tbh they recognize that it's a major response, but they genuinely can't try much else given the tools at their disposal.

Part of the fediverse is that each community operates according to their own rules, and while they can talk to other admins, they can't force them into anything like reviewing registrations or the like.

ElectroVagrant,

Personally I've been catching up on some shows that I missed the airing of, or could never catch in the right order, like the '90s Outer Limits and the original Quantum Leap.

Btw, lil' heads up, if you're also into some shows from the '90s, there's a '90s tv community over here.

ElectroVagrant,

You got the essential bit of the community name down, so you're good! Folks can copy guitars@lemmy.world and add a little ! at the start to find it, but juuust in case, I got URL:

https://lemmy.world/c/guitars@lemmy.world

So if they're just seeing us, they can copy that over to their search.

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

My overall feeling is the sense that I’m actually saving money with a hobby for once?

Mfw I found resources like Project Gutenberg and open access journals. It's such a nice feeling to just be able to...access stuff with no strings attached.

Edit:
Also, intermittent reminder that libraries are fuckin' awesome for a variety of media beyond books.

ElectroVagrant,

But I’m having fun, so I guess that counts??

Yes! Yes! Yes!

ElectroVagrant,

Yess! They're so fluffy! Thanks!

ElectroVagrant,

Not necessarily a favorite, but the next to last one I read recently was Hollywood’s Copyright Wars by Peter Decherney, which was a fascinating historical overview of the emergence of today’s film/tv copyright situation in the United States.

It doesn’t get deep into the differences between the U.S. and Europe, but it does highlight them and it’s interesting how they initially caused a delay in international agreements. I’d have to review it, but as I recall it had a fair amount to do with the creators ceding rights to businesses vs. retaining them respectively.

ElectroVagrant,

The links are a little confusing looking, but they're to (or meant to be to) comments from some Lemmy folks across a few different instances. First & third are lemmy.world, second is lemmy.pt, and fourth is from programming.dev.

ElectroVagrant,

Arguably yes, but they decided upon Lemmy and grew their community to a point where it became too late/too inconvenient to switch. I don't know if they ever posted their rationale behind choosing Lemmy, but I may try looking around at some point as I'm genuinely curious.

ElectroVagrant,

The problem is carrying over all the other posts & the like made there to a more traditional forum though, plus all the backend changing about involved. They understandably don't want to basically start their community over from scratch.

Those bothered enough by the decision will simply make second accounts on more flexible instances instead (as some already have), while those that understood the kind of space they were signing up for probably don't mind too much and are happy with the decision.

All that said, part of me thinks even if they wanted a reddit-style site to build a community on, they may have just overlooked Postmill somewhere in the process (maybe it wasn't open sourced yet? dunno!) & settled on Lemmy. I honestly wasn't aware of Postmill until very recently myself.

ElectroVagrant,

From what I understand by reading the issue report, it will eventually lock up and no longer update with new posts until/unless the admin restarts the server, but then the issue recurs shortly thereafter (if memory serves within an hour or two of server reboot, a very short time period if not that in any case).

ElectroVagrant,

You're correct, and as to how you can utilize the list, it's much more relevant to use it to see which instances your chosen instance (or an instance you're considering making an account on) has blocked more than what it's linked to/allowed.

The reason is that many instances are set to openly link to/federate with others, as is the case with lemmy.world, which means that if you find another instance out there with a community you want to post to that it's not linked to yet, you can copy the URL in search here, give it a moment, and lemmy.world should find it (so long as it's not blocked or other issues aren't arising (e.g. Lemmy bugs or network traffic being high)).

That said, you may also use the linked to list to verify that an instance already knows about another one, so that way you shouldn't need to copy a community's URL unless it happens to be very new. There's still some rough edges with this though from what I understand, so a good practice if a community doesn't show after a search or two and giving it a few seconds or a minute is to just copy the URL into search to kick your instance into finding it.

Edit:
Almost forgot, regarding following Mastodon folks, I don't think that's currently supported within Lemmy due to their different formatting, but I honestly haven't tried yet. Given that we can't follow other users on Lemmy currently, I'm leaning towards not being able to for the moment.

ElectroVagrant,

Think they may be referring to this community:
https://lemmy.world/c/dadsplain@lemmy.ca

Looks like there's a few more that have popped up since they last looked, e.g.
https://lemmy.world/c/dadsonly
https://lemmy.world/c/dadworld

Addressing the Exponential Growth of Communities

Over the past few days, I've witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation...

ElectroVagrant,

So far as I'm aware you currently can't, you can only block users & communities. On Mastodon there's an option to block domains (so, instances), but neither Lemmy nor Kbin have that functionality yet (and I dunno if they intend to).

ElectroVagrant,

@oryx or @rae are you running Lemmy in darkmode? If so, just a lil' heads up that you may not have realized your community icon is almost invisible in light mode. 😅

ElectroVagrant,

Could you try it again now? I did a search for the community on here and afterward was able to open it via your link, but I want to confirm it's not just me.

Edit:
If it works for you now, I think it was related to the community not being searched/seen by the instance just yet despite us being linked to mander.xyz.

ElectroVagrant,

In a way, yeah. From your experience I'm getting a better sense that if a community on another instance hasn't been searched on your instance, it won't have fetched it yet.

What I did was I went to the top navbar and searched !gardening to get lemmy.world to fetch it. Took a few seconds but it did! I think if it had been on an instance lemmy.world's not linked to yet though, you'd want to copy the URL of the instance including community, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld

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