I got a reply to a 9.5 year old comment two days ago...
This is why he'll win. Because Republicans live in an echo chamber where they think Biden is incompetent. If you look at the record he's the best president since FDR.
Whatever Christie is doing, it's aimed for after the election. I think he's simply raising his profile for either a talking head spot on a network or a leadership role in the party post-Trump. I think he seriously underestimates the degree to which the party has shifted hard right, though.
Whatever ends up happening, it is going to be wildly entertaining seeing Christie trash Trump at the debates. I think he'll ridicule Trump for not even having the guts to be present for the debates, and that may trigger Trump to start participating.
Yes it was interesting finding communities banned from Reddit who seemed like they had been here awhile.
I have a silly need to buy tech for no reason
Me too, I have three of them now plus an old chromebook that I rooted and installed linux on when the price of a PI was skyhigh during the pandemic. The chromebook set me back $40. Installing PeppermintOS on it was pretty easy.
Interesting, I'll check that out. RES used to have something similar to keep you synced across computers.
That looks to be exactly what I need, thank you.
I can't find it now. The number that I saw was 1.09 million, but I can't find the site I saw it on now. I think a bunch of them must be purged spam accounts maybe.
I decided to set up my own instance to give me more control over my lemmy experience. But I had already subscribed to lots of communities on several other instances.
What is the quickest and easiest way to transfer all those subscriptions over so that I can view them in my own instance?
I don't think people really understand that reddit is an 18 year old product. Their original site was iterated on for 10 years before they stopped building on it.
Lemmy will get there and beyond. As the fediverse attracts more users, it will also attract more contributors. I'm starting to learn Rust myself in hopes I can contribute to the project at some point down the line.
Please for anyone reading, just be patient. Keep posting and commenting and it WILL grow. There are only like 1.2 million Lemmy users versus hundreds of millions of redditors.
If you follow the 90-9-1 rule, that leaves very few actual contributors and still Lemmy has a lot of good content daily. Just be patient and it will come.
I’ve bought two on eBay in the last year. Got the last one for around $135 and it was a kit.
No way Im running linux on a Mac. That’s what a raspberry pi is for.
Totally agree. Each sub top mod should submit one good post per day at a minimum.
What Lemmy needs now more than anything is commenters. If the site is to succeed, it needs robust comment sections.
I don't generally block anyone on social media. I don't want to block racists and then not be able to report their racism.
I remember back when you could only download one song at a time from there. But you’re right. There is an insane amount of good music there.
Just saw a post on reddit alternatives and there was a comment inviting users to laguna.chat. I went and checked it out and the trending communities list included, 'jews did 911', 'killnirs', 'hitler was right', and 'Fuck Nirs'. One of the user accounts was u/HangNi***rs.
Hey Laguna Chat, get your shit together.
Edit: markdown defeated me again. I think you can figure out what those words are.
In the old days, official reddit announcement posts were a little different. Spuds, or another high-level admin would reply to a comment. Dozens of users would then reply with something like "When are you going to ban r/the_donald." The threads were massive and quickly became unwieldy, but they seemed organic.
Once reddit started hiring admins who don't seem to really know what reddit is, I started to notice a new trend. By now it's moved on from a trend to a template or better yet, an archetype.
Here is the archetypal pattern to an official Reddit announcement post in 2023:
- Reddit makes an announcement that is downvoted below 20%.
- The individual admin making the announcement (sometimes) litters the post with cringe gifs and meme-speak in a ham-fisted attempt to break the ice.
- This admin will only be authorized to speak on the topic of the post but will be asked about a range of items.
- The admin will answer 4-8 questions, mostly praise or comments with a neutral or positive tone.
- The admin replies will mostly be downvoted well into the double digits.
- After answering a few questions, often without ever replying to any follow-up questions, the admin vanishes as the thread is overwhelmed with criticism and ridicule.
In a short time, reddit will announce a new contributor program that will use some kind of crypto currency to allow users to pay other users for content. If recent patterns hold, and we all know they will, there will be aspects of this program that are surfaced in the comments of the announcement. These aspects will be alarming or concerning in some way and will highlight ways in which bad actors could exploit the feature. It will be clear that reddit had not considered these items raised by users and did not adequately interact with their userbase prior to the feature announcement to ensure the smoothest possible launch.
Reddit management doesn't seem to fuly understand that the freedom they grant their mods to build and manage their communities -- which is the entire reason that users come to the site so that they can be marketed to -- creates a much higher bar for communication and interaction around site architecture and feature changes with those mods / users. The pattern has been repeating for years: new features are rolled out half-baked, are not highly adopted. Admins are disincentivized to iterate on these features because of the low adoption rates. The feature is then abandoned or deprecated.
The last announcement post on r/modnews by the VP of community was the worst example since 2015 when Victoria was fired. Reddit, inc has done nothing to mitigate the anger, they haven't even apologized, without which no healing could ever happen.
And the next announcement post will be no different...
Standby.
I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.
Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?
Edit: I didn't expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you... I can't reply to everyone. I'm an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I'm really sad too, but I'm finding that lemmy has most of the content I'm looking for, just needs more comments.
The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.
It's been a rough day. First I tried the lemmy-easy-deploy script because, hey, I'm lazy. That failed, so I then tried the ansible playbook and had some success with it. At first, Let's Encrypt was not working, and I had to sort out my dynamic dns provider.
Once that was sorted the playbook was running well, encryption was working properly, then I got an error that the docker didn't support arm v7 architecture. I then updated to Bullseye, Raspbian 11 and got a similar error that docker didn't support arm v8 architecture.
So what os do I need to be running on this pi to install an instance on it?
The browser tab is blank, and unless I'm doing something wrong there is no Favicon set for Lemmy.World. I would hazard a guess that most of us have lots and lots of tabs open at any given time. Would it be possible to add an icon to help make it easier to locate lemmy.world tabs?
I'm new to lemmy, only been here a few days, but I have already ported over one of my reddit bots to Lemmy and it was really easy, like orders of magnitude easier than it was to get my first reddit bot working.
There are lots of wrappers available and I am researching everything to figure out how best to proceed with a more serious bot. Most of my scripts for reddit were moderation tools. Lemmy doesn't seem large enough to need a lot of moderation yet, but I still want to get to work creating things because it's fun.
I'm finding documentation scarce in some cases so I just wanted to pose a question here. On reddit, if I want to look at posts (or comments, reports, modqueue, and so on) I iterate through a listing and then narrow my search based on what type of post I need.
Does Lemmy use listings, or how do you process posts/comments in the same fashion as you'd do over there?
I haven't had to take any mod actions yet because I don't have any reports, so I haven't really explored any of the mod actions via the api.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1661747
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1660712 > > > The hits just keep coming.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1660712
> The hits just keep coming.
The hits just keep coming.
Like many of you I'm here because I'm done with reddit. I'm just getting started here and I found a front end for Lemmy that provides the old reddit interface. I like the lemmy.world interface just fine, but old habits are hard to break. I think using Lemmy with this front end will help me spend more time here because of the familiarity.
if you have friends that are having a hard time transitioning over, maybe recommend http://mlmym.org to them.
