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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 3 months ago 100%

    Happy first birthday to all the lemmy.zip users!

    It truly was an eventful year on our little corner of the internet, and I’m so happy I was able to witness it. I truly love our little instance and just wanted to thank the amazing admins and also every member of .zip for being part of this incredible community! ❤️

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  • home Home Lemmy.zip's 1st Birthday Giveaway! (Winners have been drawn!)
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 3 months ago 100%

    Happy birthday everyone!

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  • europe Europe Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen area
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 4 months ago 100%

    Nope, this “membership” is only for air and water travel. There are still border checks on land. A great victory, as the politicians said, indeed.

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  • castles Castles Cherven fortress - Bulgaria
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 5 months ago 100%

    Yes. And some things I forgot to mention about the tower:

    Baldwin’s tower, in Tsarevets, Veliko Turnovo, was restored by model of this tower.

    And, apparently, the tower appeared in S5E10 of Game of thrones. source (in bulgarian)

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  • castles Castles Cherven fortress - Bulgaria
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 6 months ago 100%

    Here’s the fortress’ plan.

    Cherven fortress, by Vasil Goranov

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    Cherven fortress - Bulgaria

    The fortress was built in the place of a Byzantine fortress from the sixth century. It served as an important centre during the Second Bulgarian empire, second only to the capital of Turnovo. It minted coins and in 1235 it became the seat of the Bishopric of Cherven. The fortress was burned by the invading ottomans in 1388, with most people fleeing to what is today Ruse. There is also a [3D reconstruction ](https://youtu.be/PE1AFcaW3iY) of the town during the 14th century [Cherven’s wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherven_(fortress))

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    helldivers2 Helldivers 2 What names are you all rocking?
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 6 months ago 100%

    Went with Dream of Dawn

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  • gaming Gaming Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 6 months ago 100%

    The site has all current clients so I’d recommend checking it. As for me, I use Element X. It’s not bad, the only annoying thing is that it’s always asking me to turn on chat backup but when I do it encounters an error. But besides this, it’s alright, it does everything I need it to do.

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  • gaming Gaming Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 6 months ago 93%

    The most popular such alternative is Matrix.

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  • gaming Gaming What are you playing this week? March 25 2024 Edition
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 6 months ago 100%

    I decided to finally pick up Helldivers and I couldn’t be happier with it. The missions are entertaining and the community is great! The game is just… fun! There are still some bugs, like when I got stuck in the door of the extraction ship and died to a fire tornado lol, but those are rare, most times being just visual.

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  • technology Technology [Meta] Should we create a !reddit@lemmy.zip community, dedicated to Reddit?
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 6 months ago 100%

    I don’t feel like it’s necessary. The technology community is more than enough for Reddit and everything also related to technology, making a separate comm just for Reddit feels a little excessive. As for blocking, most apps have keyword blocks so people can already view the community without the Reddit-related stuff.

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  • memmy Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy So, Memmy is broke abandonware now, huh?
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 6 months ago 100%

    Everyone is saying Voyager and Arctic, and rightfully so, they are amazing apps. But I just wanted to say Mlem has also become really great.

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  • castles Castles The ruined castle of Castelbouc, above the tiny village of the same name and the river Tarn (Lozère, France)
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    That’s amazing! I imagine how grand it must have looked when it was still standing.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions What makes fishing as a hobby so appealing that people will fish all hours of the day and in nasty weather?
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    I haven’t gone fishing in a long time but from my experience it’s really peaceful. As another commenter said, kind of like meditation. Also, catching the fish feels really rewarding.

    Most people just love the thrill and some crank it to 11. Once we went fishing with my grandfather and his friends, in a regular small boat. With us was a guy they had met there last year, who had bought a pretty expensive boat just for fishing, not to talk about all the other equipment he had.

    It’s a passion for a lot of people.

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  • iphone_community iPhone Apple might be supporting RCS on the iPhone to comply with Chinese regulation
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn’t know about that, interesting.

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  • iphone_community iPhone Apple might be supporting RCS on the iPhone to comply with Chinese regulation
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    Airdrop for everyone being limited to ten minutes

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  • iphone_community iPhone Apple might be supporting RCS on the iPhone to comply with Chinese regulation
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    Wait, isn’t it already the norm?

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  • 196 196 illusion of rule
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    Let’s not forget the people who were just straight up banned when they expressed their disapproval of banning the pirate communities.

    You’re definitely right, a lot of the time this place feels like Reddit lite

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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    Frankly, it’s just way too big, which can make performance bad, makes it a target for attacks and due to the huge user base it’s harder to upgrade. That’s why .world is still on 0.18.5 while most of lemmy is at 0.19.3.

    Also, from what I’ve seen the admins can get a bit powertrippy.

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  • arctic Arctic Arctic is live on the AppStore
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 7 months ago 100%

    You’ve made an amazing app, you deserve it ❤️

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  • arctic Arctic Arctic is live on the AppStore
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    Congratulations! One of the best lemmy apps out there, so excited it’s finally on the App Store!

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  • europe Europe Pro-Russian disinformation in Bulgaria achieves its goals, experts say
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    Should we be fine with being treated as second class citizens just because Russia is worse? Of course people will react emotionally and not completely logically, many feel that their country has been humiliated and exploited.

    The fact that a single country can just blackmail others in this way, to achieve its own goals doesn’t sound like a union to me. And with such cases russophiles begin to appear more and more right.

    The EU needs major reforms in that area to make sure no one can abuse it. And blaming people for being fed up, with 12 years being used as scapegoats by various populists, is directing the blame towards the wrong people.

    As I previously stated, I’m an avid supporter of the EU and our membership in it, but it can’t go on in this state.

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  • europe Europe Pro-Russian disinformation in Bulgaria achieves its goals, experts say
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    Which requirements exactly? Taking in Austria’s immigrants so their populists can brag that they’ve saved their country?

    The requirements have been met a long time ago, and so says the European Commission. I guess Austria is the only enlightened in the whole EU to determine that Bulgaria and Romania are not ready.

    Even as a strong believer in a united Europe, I can’t blame people getting eurosceptic, seeing how our supposed allies treat us.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance.
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    Fair enough

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  • fediverse Fediverse Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance.
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 95%

    Isn’t that intentional though? I don’t believe many instances, especially the small ones, can afford to federate every community. Sure, sometimes it can be a bit annoying but you can always check on lemmyverse.

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  • newcommunities New Communities Scam Numbers - Reddit's (and possibly the internet's) largest scam number depository, now on Lemmy!
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    They really are amazing. Glad to have you with us 😊

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  • newcommunities New Communities Scam Numbers - Reddit's (and possibly the internet's) largest scam number depository, now on Lemmy!
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    Saw you recently created an account here. You truly are everywhere lol

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  • newcommunities New Communities House of the Dragon: A community for fans of the HBO show.
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    Oh definitely, I find them very enjoyable to read. Took a short break after the first book, starting A Clash of Kings tomorrow. Thanks for the encouragement!

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  • castles Castles Baba Vida - Vidin, Bulgaria
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    It’s pretty unfortunate. There’s been some attempts at reconstructing some of the castles but let’s say they weren’t ideal.

    We could at least look on the bright side that although the castles are mostly in ruin, the legacy and culture of the medieval Bulgarian states still remain.

    Nevertheless it definitely could feel like a piece of history is just gone.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's with the sudden boom with memes about America?
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 100%

    I’ve seen only NOT_RICHARD@lemmy.today post them. A two day account as well

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's with the sudden boom with memes about America?
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 8 months ago 78%

    Seems like the guy has dug up his USA bad folder

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  • chat literature.cafe chat Time Shelter - a (badly written) Review-Spoilers
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    It’s pretty likely. For example, in Bulgarian you could say something has happened in different ways, based on if you’ve witnessed it yourself. That’s how Gaustine talks about the past. It’s a pretty big part of his character, wich sadly has been lost in translation.

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    literature.cafe chat Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%
    Time Shelter - a (badly written) Review-Spoilers

    As @Arthur@literature.cafe requested, here's a review of Time Shelter. I apologize in advance for what you are going to read. As this was my first work by Gospodinov i didn't know what to expect but i really enjoyed it! I want to start with Gaustine, and precisely, his name. From Garibaldi and Augustine, a revolutionary and a philosopher (with interesting beliefs about time). That basically sums up what Gaustine is - a revolutionary for that world, someone who unifies others with their past, just as Garibaldi helped unify Italy. But does unity with your past free you from the constraints of the future? It's a question posed frequently by the book. For many the the certainty of the future that has happened brings them comfort, but the mistakes still lie in that future. He truly feels like somebody outside of time, even down to the way he speaks, a wanderer in time. For the most of the story he still was that young mysterious young man we met all the way back in that seminar, at least, until that "i don't know". I must say that I definitely enjoyed the first part of the book more, I enjoyed the human aspect of it. Who are we without our past? What binds us to it? All those questions, all those characters' stories, even when most of them were so tragic. While I liked the philosophical aspect more, I still found enjoyment in the "social commentary" if I could call it that. As a Bulgarian it absolutely hit close to home, actually a lot of the book did. At the beginning of the book, when he talks about life under communism, about that room. It was so familiar, while I wasn't alive in those years it was just like talking to my father. The little toy cars, the strange foreign triangular candy... the famed truck driver who brought all of that home, like the one my grandfather was. Got bit carried away (lol) but the whole Referendum and everything before and after really felt realistic. I also really loved G.(G.)'s character, a writer who can't remember his story, his time left falling out of his pockets. From the person who helps these people to someone who becomes one of them, being sent more and more back. From a few words, to a notebook of them, to phrases, names and after all that is left is that rose. Really loved how trough the story the line between G. and G.G. gets blurrier and blurrier. Gaustine didn't disappear without a trace as the main character states, he was always there, he never left. Also I actually liked how meta the book was at times and even funny while at it. I've seen some criticisms that the book doesn't have a climax, but to be honest it doesn't need one. It laid out everything it set to tell and told it. From the promises of a better past to repeating those old mistakes again. But it shows what we, as humans miss, those days when we were happy and young, a shelter... After all everybody yearns for their own time shelter. Thanks for reading trough this if you did, it really was fun writing it and made me think more deeply of what I read and dive deeper into it's meaning. TL;DR Nice book

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    mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating Amazing advertisement for Threads by Instagram!
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    Saw the same thing twice on one of those “advertisements”. I guess it’s probably trolling and mostly lack of moderation

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  • castles Castles Baba Vida - Vidin, Bulgaria
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    Here’s also a pretty painting of medieval Vidin

    Bdin, by Vasil Goranov

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    Baba Vida - Vidin, Bulgaria

    The construction of the castle began in the 10th century at the place of the Ancient Roman castell Bononia. The building of Baba Vida is tied to a legend, according to which a Danubian Bulgarian king who ruled at Vidin had three daughters: Vida, Kula and Gamza. Prior to his death, he divided his realm among the three. Vida, the eldest, was given Vidin and the lands north to the Carpathians, Kula was awarded Zaječar and the Timok Valley, and Gamza was to rule the lands west up to the Morava. Although Gamza and Kula married to drunkard and warlike nobles, Vida remained unmarried and built the castle in her city. The name of the castle means "Granny Vida". Due to wars and castles being torn down as to prevent rebellions or just for the materials during ottoman times Baba Vida remains the only fully intact castle in Bulgaria. [Baba Vida’s wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vida) [And Vidin’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidin)

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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    Albania

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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    Why can’t we contribute just to have fun, why should there be some kind of an award? Besides, that’s just like the awards on Reddit and we know how well those work. The same one-liner under every post, flooded with awards.

    This system just encourages farming and creates a hive mind mentality. Lemmy is great the way it is.

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  • home Home Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year!
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    Happy holidays to everyone!

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  • fediverse Fediverse PSA: the federation problem is still present in Lemmy 0.19.1, the GitHub issue has been reopened
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 93%

    Lemmy has been feeling pretty empty the past couple of days. That just really goes to show how important federation really is.

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    Europe Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%
    Parliament in the Netherlands votes in favour of Bulgaria’s admission to Schengen – report sofiaglobe.com

    Parliament in the Netherlands has voted in favour of Bulgaria being admitted to the Schengen visa zone, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) said on December 22, a week after the Dutch government recommended the move. A proposal tabled by the New Sociaal Contract group to endorse the stance previously announced by Austria, to admit only Bulgaria’s airports for now and its land and sea borders at some point later, failed to win the required number of votes – 76 – to be approved, though the vote was 59 in favour and 49 against.

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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 98%

    This image has been reposted so many times now that the notes can’t even be seen anymore lol

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  • fediverse Fediverse Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    Since 1.19 launched it is. Now you can export your subscriptions and settings to another Lemmy account

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy How can I export my subscriptions?
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  • Levsgetso Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%

    Go to your profile settings trough the site. There you’ll see a section for importing/exporting your subscriptions, just click on it and it should download a json file.

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    Avelon App Levsgetso 9 months ago 100%
    Will we get the new sorting methods?

    With most instances updated to 19.0 and Avelon supporting it, when will we be able to use the new Scaled and Controversial sorting methods?

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    Common bulgar W 😤🇧🇬💪🏹🏹🐴 https://i.imgur.com/Ac8OS31.png
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    Avelon App Levsgetso 10 months ago 100%
    [Bug] Can’t add new guest instance

    When trying to add a new guest instance it opens the window to type it and it quickly disappears. On a side note, what’s going on with the development? It’s the longest we’ve had without a new update and (at least for me) Avelon has become a little laggy, not to mention 0.19 is just a few days away. Hope everything is okay with evgiz.

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    Castles Levsgetso 10 months ago 96%
    Tsarevets fortress, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria https://i.imgur.com/TYhRmCs.jpg

    It served as the primary stronghold in the capital of the Second Bulgarian empire. It’s situated on the Yantra river, on a hill of the same name, across it is the other main hill in the medieval city - Trapezitsa. It was conquered on 17 July 1393 by the ottomans after a three month siege, during which the tsar was at Nikopol, leaving the Bulgarian patriarch to defend the city. On 22 September 1908, at the foot of Tsarevets, in the Holy Forty martyrs church, tsar Ferdinand declares Bulgaria’s independence from the Ottoman Empire. [Here’s a great guide for Tsarevets](https://www.andrey-andreev.com/en/tsarevets/)

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    Tsarevets https://files.catbox.moe/r4u42s.jpeg

    The painting is made by Vasil Goranov, one of my favourite painters. [his website, if you want to check out more of his paintings](https://www.vasilgoranov.com/en/index.html) The painting depicts Tsarevest, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire

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    Avelon App Levsgetso 12 months ago 100%
    [Bug] Jump Button doesn’t work after opening user profile

    Opening a user’s profile in the comment section causes the jump button to stop working. There’s no problem if you’re at the top of a comment tree, and the only way to fix is to scroll up. It’s a pretty minor bug I thought I should point it out.

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    Avelon App Levsgetso 12 months ago 93%
    [Feature Request] Videos to stop playing after scrolling past them

    Currently videos don’t stop playing after you scroll and if they have sound you have to go back and turn it off

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 12 months ago 100%
    Здравейте, драги сънародници! Как мина денят ви?

    (Никой няма да отговори)

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    Avelon App Levsgetso 12 months ago 100%
    [Feature Request] Set community group sorting

    Basically the title. Currently groups’ sorting is set to active by default. It would be nice to be able to set a default sorting when you create a group. Other than that I’m really loving the update!

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    FediLore + Fedidrama Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Lemmyloves.art has shut down https://lemmyloves.art/

    When trying to open the site it reads the message: “Hey, I apologize but for the time being this instance must go down. I cannot deal with two instances at once during the ongoing issues with lemmy and people spamming illegal content into the federation. I don't know when or if this instance will be back, but I will try my best to bring it back up when I can. For continued info, please go to literature.cafe, I love and appreciate you <3”

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    Photo Mode Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Ghost of Tsushima - PS5

    ![](https://i.imgur.com/WQoaCd5.jpg)

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Австрия продължава да е против разширяването на Шенген www.24chasa.bg

    "Нашата позиция е, че Шенгенската система като цяло не функционира, затова не сме отворени към разширяването й” Лицемерие?-Неее, нама такова нещо

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    Avelon App Levsgetso 1 year ago 84%
    Bug: GIFs stop music

    I listen to quite a lot of music and often browse lemmy while listening. I noticed that if you go over a gif it pauses your music, even though there’s no sound. Other than that I really like using Avelon, it’s definitely the best app out there!

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Staro Zhelezare: The small Bulgarian town transformed into a hub for political street art www.euronews.com

    Inhabited by around 400 residents, Staro Zhelezare has undergone an enchanting transformation - where modest homes, once cloaked in silence, now stand adorned with an eclectic array of famous faces.

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    No Stupid Questions Levsgetso 1 year ago 88%
    What does fedddit mean?

    It’s used on so many country instances and I’ve started to wonder.

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    Search inside community design

    I’m not sure how to call it As searching inside communities is on the way I thought about how it would look. Imo it would be best to have to swipe down for a search bar to appear, like in some ios apps.

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    Canvas Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Hey guys! Does anybody want to help me make this painting?

    ![](https://i.imgur.com/rZWO5mW.jpg)

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    Memes Levsgetso 1 year ago 96%
    This man single handedly keeps most of the news communities active

    ![](https://i.imgur.com/guWhkS8.jpg)

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Народното събрание пак се мести в бившия партиен дом m.dnevnik.bg

    "Все едно на германския парламент да има свастика", каза възмутен депутат пред "Дневник"

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Държавата предприема опит да запази собствеността си върху Пловдивския панаир www.dnevnik.bg

    Окръжният съд в Пловдив е постановил да бъде спряна процедурата, с която 29% от акциите на Пловдивския панаир, държани от Община Варна, трябваше да бъдат вписани като апорт в компанията "Пълдин туринвест" на бизнесмена Георги Гергов.

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    Парламентът почти прие закона за защита от домашното насилие, създаде регистър на педофилите www.dnevnik.bg

    След като близо два часа гласуването вървеше гладко и без проблемни гласувания, "Възраждане" използваха последните 10 минути отново да развият тезата си, че целта на този закон е облагодетелстването на определени неправителствени организации.

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    В комисия скоростно бяха приети поправките, връщащи контрола на държавата върху пристанище "Росенец" www.dnevnik.bg

    Предложението беше подкрепено от всички членове на комисията с изключение на тези от прокремълската партия "Възраждане", които гласуваха против.

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    Has Memmy lost its character?

    With the recent updates Memmy has changed drastically and is very different from what it was just a week or two ago. The removal of the traversal feed, and the major rework of most of the ui, has made the app feel a lot more like Apollo. The reason I like Memmy so much compared to other apps is because it felt a lot more unique, it took inspiration from Apollo but it didn’t copy it directly. I just feel like Memmy has somewhat given up on its original idea in place for the Apollo aesthetic. And I want to say that I don’t mean to insult the developers of Memmy or undermine the effort they’ve put into developing the best Lemmy app, but just wanted to share my opinion.

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    Bulgaria Levsgetso 1 year ago 100%
    ЕП иска България и Румъния да влязат в Шенген и да получат компенсации за отложеното членство https://www.svobodnaevropa.bg/amp/ep-balgariya-rumaniya-shengen/32500492.html

    Присъединяването на нови държави към Шенген изисква единодушието на държавите членки. Австрия и Нидерландия блокираха приемането на България в края на 2022 г., а срещу членството на Румъния гласува само Виена.

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