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I occasionally eat one as a “meal replacement” when I can’t get normal food.

Came here to say the same. I would not eat a candy bar under normal circumstances, but I keep some Snickers handy just for the rare occasion when what I really need is a meal’s worth of calories that I can eat in under a minute, or carry with me and take up only a little space.

Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.

Most likely yes, I’ll be sticking around. Something I very much appreciate about lemmy as an advantage over the big social media sites is that lemmy is set up such that you can be reasonably sure that there are many more human users than bots. On reddit you can mostly avoid the bots by sticking to the smaller subs, but I think lemmy may be able to grow larger than that and still avoid being overrun by propaganda and marketing bots due to the prevalence of manual approval for newly registered users.

I’m definitely hoping to see even more features that emphasize this advantage of lemmy. I’d like to try contributing some code for this myself, at a time when things feel more stable (i.e. no huge sweeping changes in the pipeline, like the HTTP client is now) and I can find some time for it.

For example…

One obvious improvement would be to add an invite system, where new user registration occurs via reputable users sending invite links to people they know.

And I envision a feature where one instance may mark some of the instances it federates with as low trust. Users on the instance would have the option not to see content posted by the low-trust instance’s users, or the option to have their content explicitly marked in the UI. This could be used, for one thing, to still federate with larger instances that are less stringent about disallowing bot accounts, but provide a means to view only content where there is a higher degree of confidence that it was posted by a human, or to at least clearly mark low-confidence content.

The #1 thing missing is user notes. In my experience, being able to attach notes to users that are shared among moderators is essential, even for smaller teams or smaller communities.

As the number of things that need to be moderated grows larger, being able to maintain a list of pre-written removal messages will also help a lot.

And as lemmy continues to grow, it will be very important to have something that works like automod that can be configured on either a per-instance or a per-community level. Especially something that can do filtering and auto-reporting. There are a lot of cases where you don’t want to outright forbid a certain kind of content, but you do always want to bring human attention to it.

You got yourself a new sub. Thank you for sharing!

I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? I’m trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.

I’m really not sure, but it sounds like these could be issues related to feddit.uk? I suggest asking about this on a community there, or messaging an admin of that instance.

Kagi. Yes, it’s paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:

Huh. I hadn’t heard of this one before, but I think I’m going to have to try it out.

In the meantime there’s nothing stopping community mods from making pinned posts or sidebar links or whatever (I assume)

Well… Hopefully in the near future the UX for linking to communities can be improved, since right now the way things work makes it a pretty crappy user experience for anyone on an instance that hasn’t synced that community yet.

Hah, that’s what…four rival gamedev communities now? At least 😄

No need to compete! I’m self-hosting my own instance in any case, so I thought I might as well make communities for things I’m interested in. I’ve also subbed to every other gamedev community I’ve come across so far…

It would be really neat if there were a lemmy feature to easily co-promote related communities, maybe even give users an easy way to see them all in one feed.

Hm, that’s surprising. I didn’t expect mobile Chrome to work like that when copying links. Try copying and pasting the link text instead, e.g. !news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.

If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.

That’s actually not true! If you format the links like this: /c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com, like I did, then anyone who clicks on them will be brought to the community on the same instance they’re viewing the post from. (At least, assuming that the community has been searched for and synced on the instance already.)

How do I access these links in Chrome browser to subscribe?

If the communities haven’t synced to your instance yet, then you can prompt the instance to sync them by copying and pasting them into your instance’s search page. Unfortunately lemmy doesn’t do this automatically when you visit the URL, at least not yet.

Once the communities are synced, then you should be able to just click the links to visit them and subscribe from there.

I could see value in having an option to the effect of “I’m the age of majority and I want to see adult content” in user profile options which is turned off by default, and if it’s turned off then the UI would show a warning about the nature of the content and the user’s current setting in place of posts or communities that have been marked as adult content.

Is there any benefit to joining an Instance closer to your location (e.g. An Australian hosted instance vs one in Europe)

There is! Lemmy instances are generally going to be hosted from one geographic location, unlike a major corporate website like reddit that is likely to be hosted from multiple servers around the world. The closer the lemmy server is to you, the snappier and more responsive your experience will tend to be.

But there are other and larger factors, too. For one thing, if an instance is overloaded with more users than it can really handle, then that will more than outweigh the benefit of geographical proximity.

As things level out, though, and the increased traffic that lemmy instances are experiencing right now reaches a stable level, instance hosts should be able to adapt and overloading should become less of an issue. In the end I think you are likely to have the smoothest experience if you joined an instance whose server is located closer to you.

Here’s some of the communities on lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. They’re pretty small and quiet at the moment, but maybe they’ll grow a little over time:

!dev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For software development
!gamedev@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For game development
!compile@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For compiler development
!games@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For video games
!rns@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Deep Rock Galactic
!fortnight@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For Fortnight
!twitch@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For twitch.tv
!tech@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For general tech stuff
!news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com - For world news

I think it is annoying that most posts, like this one, are about Lemmy itself. I hope this will change soon.

I can suggest subscribing to a broader range of communities. I think you can expect to find a lot of these kinds of lemmy-related questions and discussions on the most populated communities on the most populated instance, like here, where all the new users are landing.

Since you’re registered on feddit.de, you can browse communities and subscribe to them pretty easily here:

https://feddit.de/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

One of these days I would very much like to learn how to distill vodka.

Last year I took another step on the fermented foods path and learned how to brew kombucha. I’m progressing slowly, but I’ll get to vodka eventually.

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Is your name Richard?

Nobody is guessing this one

Global warming, but it is totally propaganda-based stupidity

You don’t have to trust everything you read online or see on TV to notice for your own self that the weather is getting weird in recent years, compared to how it used to be. Typically warmer, and it’s happening pretty much no matter where you live.