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X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

"He took my name from me, I'm not allowed to be called by my name anymore. But its ok, I still love him."

What are some notable blunders in history that resulted in huge loss? by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago

Chernobyl comes to mind as the biggest fuck up ever. Whenever I think I fucked up I try to remember, it can never be as bad as Chernobyl.

Everyone wants to lurk but nobody wants to post by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has to reach a critical mass of users before the more niche communities start to grow. Most of it is all tech communities which is expected. Lucky for me thats my interests.

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Thoughts on Windows and WSL? (158436977.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've recently been interested in doing a complete switch from Windows to Ubuntu, and I've been playing around with WSL2 in Windows quite a bit and I have to admit I am pretty impressed with their implementation.

However, one of the reasons I've been drawn to Linux these days is the privacy aspect, and I'm looking to get everyone's thoughts on whether using Linux apps in WSL improves your privacy at all, or do I need to just flat out get off windows to get any sort of privacy benefit. My plan is to eventually get off Windows completely, but I guess I'm wondering if WSL is a good middle ground.

What password manager do you recommend? by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden, bonus points if you self host it. I use the Vaultwarden variation.

Reddit CEO learns going to war with the internet is a LOSING battle by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago

I think we are just still in the early stages of a breakup lol

Wow, just wow "Hey /r/piracy. Reddit admins de-modded the captain and put a sword to the mod-team's necks to re-open. It seems they really demand valuable input from pirates...." by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Honestly its for the best that we move here anyways. Way fewer restrictions over here.

Is this the replacement for the reddit r/piracy? by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Personally I am subscribed to a few Piracy subs on different instances. I will contribute to them all as best I can.

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Lemmy self-hosters. What is your image cleanup process? (158436977.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm self-hosting the docker containers and I noticed the pictrs directory is steadily growing because of the cached images. Does anyone know if it gets cleaned up automatically or are hosters running scripts to clean it up after a certain amount of time? The install guides make no mention of it from what I can find.

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How do I federate to kbin.social? (158436977.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm on my own instance, kbin.social never comes up when I search. Are they still have problems or am I doing something wrong?

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Who are the real lemmings? Us or the redditors that stuck around (158436977.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

just deleted my last account. fuck em lol

Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community? by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I did it. So far I've noticed a few things, for example you have to populate/federate the communities yourself, and it can take a long time. It took hours to retrieve and catch up all the lemmy.world posts. I expect it to be an ongoing thing. When you first connect to a community, it downloads the first 20 posts, but all the comments are empty.

The plus side though is it is very fast for me. And nobody can delete my profile.

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Is there a way to see how many total users Lemmy has? (158436977.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Redundant communities across instances by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I think it will for the most part sort itself out. I do see this issue has been brought up before but didn't get much traction.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

I think that something like being able to group communities by topics would help a lot. You could then just sub to all communities that are tagged with the topic, then the fragmentation really doesn't matter nearly as much. Posts would get spread out across communities and instances (which I think is a good thing) but would still have a decent amount of visibility.

If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not interested in maintaining a community (I don't have the time to be a moderator), but I have been trying to comment as much as I can. Also, if you think you have something to post about, just make a post.

Is there any good alternative to imgur for uploading screenshots? by idle in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Imgur announced recently they are going to be purging images that haven't been viewed for x amount of time.

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Was anyone else hoping for a Gears collection announcement from Microsoft? (158436977.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know most gamers are tired of the Halo and Gears churn from Microsoft, but I gotta admit, I was really hoping Gears 2 and 3 would finally come to PC.