thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Welcome to the community. I hope you enjoy your time here, I know I have!
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
You are correct. The first group of people to join is usually the most active because they believe in the project.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Can I complain about people complaining about complaining?
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
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.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Now that's exciting, I'm looking forward to seeing the finished app
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
What if you get into an accident?
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 90%
Humans are resistors. We just need to create a chain of people, and the more we add the more resistance the circuit will have too.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Um, I think someone may have hit you upside the head because it's obvious and clear that my way is the best.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
"Remember Roger? I took him offline so hard he left the industry."
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, I can tell why this is from adhddd.com, it's all about assertiveness. People with ADHD in general (including myself, to an extent) have trouble with being assertive, so most of the phrases in this chart try to change a meek or mild-mannered response to a more assertive one. I think part of the struggle of life is finding balance because while some of these are generally improvements, others are generally worse, and the difference will depend on the tone you're going for and the person that you're sending the email.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
With a name like @redditcunts, this one is probably a troll. Just block them.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Honestly, for some software this is the answer. The other one with hackers is that it's usually easier to trick an employee into giving you the master password than finding an obscure exploit in their codebase, though it does still happen.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
That's purposeful I think. The difference between men and women's glasses is fairly subtle, but I have definitely noticed that men's glasses lend a more masculine look to someone and women's glasses lend a more feminine look to someone.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Unfortunately it's become part of internet lore, I think it will last a long time as a reference or old in-joke. Luckily Lemmy is also giving us new ones, like beans or the 3-day no-poop challenge.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
I wash my coat from time to time because I consider and have considered it to be part of my wardrobe. For my belt, I suppose I kinda just considered it as an accessory and it never occurred to me to clean it.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
I have some clothes that fit well enough that I don't need a belt in order for them to stay up. I do use a belt for some of my clothes though.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 75%
In most cases the creator doesn't hold the IP anymore, they signed it over to the platform. I don't think it's cool to pirate indy games when you can afford them because in that case the money is genuinely being withheld from the content creator, but in a lot of cases depriving Amazon of $5 for a TV show isn't going to impact anyone.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Indeed. I'm not a super big fan of Capitalism in general, but often times private company owners are at least sensible. Shareholders on the public market have a collective mentality of "MORE MONEY!!!" and some company models just aren't compatible with that, especially social media companies which are barely profitable to begin with.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 96%
Most of that traffic is probably lurkers and content consumers. Reddit will continue chugging along for a bit, but the loss of power users and mods is about guaranteed to wither the platform over time.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
The answer is clearly yes, though it's a shame, I had hoped Lemmy would avoid spam posts for longer.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Most of that except for the last panel. I don't think any of us would fight for Reddit.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, this happens a lot, especially when I'm tired. Luckily, I usually leave cues for myself so that I remember what I was doing.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
A Reddit is when you destroy a social media platform because you're angry with its users. It's a common billionaire or wannabe billionaire move.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
You're correct, I was moreso referring to federation in general.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
I think it's really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I'm following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
I'm not really sure, but then again I also didn't really understand the point of Twitter, so I'm a bit biased.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
If they do both-ways federation (I've heard rumors of it being one-way only) it should theoretically be both Lemmy and Mastodon, but it will work better with Mastodon because they're both for the same purpose (i.e. Twitter-like apps).
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
My personal hope is that the ActivityPub standard prevents this from happening. After all, I've seen decent federation between Lemmy and KBin and they're entirely different platforms, nevermind a fork of the same software.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
It's fine, as long as you enable 2FA for Google and make sure to maintain access to the account you're secure. It won't have all the fancy features that some of the other apps have, but if it works for you then it's good.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
I use Bitwarden, and pay for their premium services. I really like it, it helps me keep track of all of my accounts, I'm able to keep all of my individual account passwords secure and unique, and I'm able to autofill my login credentials on all of my devices.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Out of curiosity, what problems are you having with the drivers? I have a GTX 1070ti graphics card and the drivers for it have been ok on Linux, the integration hasn't been as smooth as Windows but I haven't had any problems.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, the smaller communities on Reddit were still really nice, which is why I wasn't initially eager to leave. It's unfortunate that it had to turn so shitty, but I honestly knew it was coming as soon as they announced that they were going public. The stock market and shareholders are really bad at building things with longevity, so when a corporation goes public it usually starts making bad but short-term profitable decisions until it goes under.
thesanewriter 1 year ago • 100%
They changed from inside jokes to community jokes. It's sort of like how there are jokes among programmers that any of the tens or hundreds of thousands of us would get, but would fly over the heads of people not in the industry. Reddit jokes just turned into something that someone would get if they were a Redditor.
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 @pyarra@vlemmy.net 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.
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](https://www.howtogeek.com/437958/how-to-use-the-chmod-command-on-linux/)) 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.
[Source](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/first-day-on-the-internet-kid)
I've been talking with [@pyarra@vlemmy.net](https://vlemmy.net/u/pyarra), 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](https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances) page. We may be small, but so far we're doing great!
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](https://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. [!asklemmy@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy) 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.