thesanewriter

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the community. I hope you enjoy your time here, I know I have!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's also about search engine indexing. It's happening slowly, but I've noticed Lemmy posts are finally beginning to show up in Google/Bing search results. As this trend improves, more people will stumble here by accident and then join out of curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are correct. The first group of people to join is usually the most active because they believe in the project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The captcha and text prompt to join definitely helps. Having those types of simple security measures prevents people from automatically making hundreds of bot accounts, and I think is just as if not more worthwhile than verified emails for making sure that the people here are actual people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the hot algorithm here is weighted better. It pulls up brand new comments on a similar weight to older comments with hundreds of points, which makes people more likely to see and interact with new comments. The Activity and New Comments post sorts also prioritize ongoing discussions, which I think is pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't mind it, but I think a Discord-like reaction system might be better than the Reddit award system. I'm open though to either or neither.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I complain about people complaining about complaining?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world went under for a bit while they fixed server issues and upgraded the efficiency of the Lemmy backend, my guess is that would cause the dip in average posts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I follow a similar philosophy, except I do downvote the mean but not rule breaking content. While it's not bad enough to justify removal, I do still want to discourage people being mean on this platform. For most disagreeable opinions, I'll either move on or reply with my point of view.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think they theoretically can be used well, and I've tried to be more reserved in how I use them here on Lemmy, but I agree often times they can become culturally toxic. I'm glad Lemmy has a better culture so far, we're really building something great here I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm super excited for all the development here. I'm looking forward for Boost for Lemmy, but I'm also really enjoying wefwef (soon to be Voyager) and the active development is really exciting to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It seems to be dropping in and out a bit. To be expected after a server version upgrade unfortunately, just give it a bit and it should go back to being more stable.

 

We are now the 16th largest instance on Lemmyverse, with 497 weekly active users and 712 monthly active users. Great job everybody, we are doing great. The community that we've cultivated here is really friendly and the server has been running very well. Also, remember that if you're enjoying the Lemmy experience here to donate to our admin @[email protected] using the links on the sidebar, donations are what keep Lemmy sustainable and allow our admins not to have to resort to things like ads to keep the instances running.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Howdy, everybody. I'm posting this here in an attempt to begin to move some information that is currently only stored on Reddit over to Lemmy instead, that way we'll start coming up in Google searches and we can get our information locally. I'll post my source in the comments if anyone's interested.

Problem: When running yay, either to install or update a package, you get an error along the lines of
rm: cannot remove '~/.cache/yay/arbitrary-file': Permission denied.

Solution: Oftentimes, it's because your permissions are wrong. You can either use chmod (helpful article) or you can use your file explorer (for Dolphin you right-click, go to properties, and then permissions) and give the build directory to give the build directory, usually ~/.cache/yay, read and modify permissions for both your user and your group, and make sure to give it to all of the subdirectories and files too. If ~/.cache/yay is not your build directory, it will be specified by the yay config, which is usually ~/.config/yay/config.json. Hope this helps any prospective Linux users, having the information about and available I think is good for the community.

Note: This is probably the cause and solution of a lot of other permission-denied problems for yay, but I can only confirm for myself.

Edit: Improved formatting.

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I've been talking with @[email protected], and we agreed it would be best to discuss this as a community. What are all of your thoughts on defederating instances with loli and shota? My thoughts will be posted in the comments.

 

Right now, we're the number one recommended instance to join on the join-lemmy.org site, and we are also one of 3 recommended instances in the awesome-lemmy-instances page. We may be small, but so far we're doing great!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder from a member of one of your mod teams. Don't forget to report bad actors, malicious bots, or rulebreakers whenever you see them. vlemmy.net is a rapidly growing instance and as more people join, post, and comment, it will get harder for the admins/moderators to keep up. Reporting helps the admins/moderators immediately address bad behavior, making the community better for everyone and easing everyone's workload, so remember to report.

 

Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder from your mod team. Don't forget to report bad actors, malicious bots, or rulebreakers whenever you see them. [email protected] is one of the larger communities in the threadverse and it's hard to keep up, even with a larger mod team, so please report bad behavior.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Howdy everyone. If you're reading this, there's a chance it's because I've started grabbing popular community names. I am not doing this to hoard communities, or to be a power-mod. People who moderate similar communities on other platforms are free to message me, and as long as they can show their identity I will immediately grant moderator status here. I just want to create communities analogous to the ones I enjoy on Reddit to prepare for that social media site's downfall.

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