.ml disabled community creation. There isn’t much you can do except creating an account at a different instance (and creating your community there)

The hate Americans get for not catering discussion on a US based site to the global community is really what’s strange.

I just want y’all to stop saying shit like “oh xyz is like 20$ right now” like it’s just as cheap everywhere else in the world.

I’m on Matrix and GoToSocial (both selfhosted).

I also made an alt on kbin which is probably where I’ll probably end up migrating the “serious” discussion to, so this account will really end up as my shitposting account just like it did back at Reddit.

I also have an account on Tildes under a different name and from a long time ago.

All of these are different enough that I end up checking on all of them quite regularly.

Oh and I have a Discord too but it just feels too overwhelming how fast most guilds (they’re not servers and I will die on this hill) move so I really use it to check for updates on shit like Sync’s Lemmy port instead of posting memes or whatever.

And finally: YouTube & WhatsApp. both of which are unescapeable. I’ve tried.

As for the ones I cut off: Facebook around 2015, Instagram since so long ago I forgot, got banned off Twitter several times, and I’m waiting until Reddit gives my GDPR export to bail from there as well.

Edit: Oh, they processed my GDPR export. Brb off to delete my account

Sure why not. Plenty of us have single user instances.

This needs to be on the Lemmy issue tracker on GitHub, not here. Someone must’ve already proposed something similar though.

Also, repeating comments on the same post. Obviously you don’t have to read all the comments if there are already hundreds of them. But if there are too many comments saying the exact same thing it just gets harder to read them all. So it would be nice if people would look whether the point they want to make maybe has been made already. They can increase that comment’s visibility by upvoting. No need to make other people read the same content multiple times and by that make it harder to read different comments.

This may be a little bit of an issue here as small instances (or frequently defederated instances) may not be aware of replies made on older comments. To see the whole reply chain of a comment you need to click the fediverse button (the rainbow star thingy on Lemmy web) and read the source. If people don’t do that they may legitimately not know that someone has replied with the exact thing they were about to reply with.

There are “questions about sex” and there are “men/women of reddit/lemmy, what’s the sexiest sex you ever sexed” being repeated every other day like on r/askreddit. I assume nobody would reject the occasional insightful sex questions.

That’s the eventual goal.

Or, well, something like it.

Community names are, by default, limited to 20 characters only. No errors or anything pop up when you exceed that, but you can ask your admins to extend the name limit.

In theory, it should work with all of them, but in practice it’s messy and clunky as all of them use ActivityPub in subtly different ways, with their own extensions and quirks.

Also Lemmy versions pre 0.18 (i want to say, unsure) won’t work with GoToSocial or Mastodon instances with secure mode enabled. The recent versions should though.

There seems to be a fair bit of admins who just run the Lemmy Ansible installer expecting to magically have an instance, and having no idea what they’re getting themselves into.

I wonder how many small Lemmy instances exist right now that have SSH password auth (or god forbid root login of any kind) enabled.

!gamedeals@lemmy.world and !gamedeals@lemmy.blahaj.zone would be the “proper” way to link AFAIK

Surprised you haven’t listed !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone on memes. It’s surprisingly active (if you’re not used to it from Reddit already)

It’s never too late to just create a new account and start using it. Don’t feel like you’re stuck on an instance. Your old posts won’t move over but that’s a problem even Mastodon hasn’t been able to solve yet. And unlike them there is no concept of followers in Lemmy so you’re really not losing anything beyond the time of re-subscribing to all your communities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-rGJKSZ3s

Your server sent the subscription request to the community’s server, but the acknowledgement never made it through amidst the chaos of federation. You’re still subscribed.

If this is the thing that ends up reviving SootHouse I’m for it. The others can go fuck themselves tho.

That’s gonna end up a shitshow and a half, no matter which side you’re on

but that’s planned for the next major release.

…for years at this point.

Don’t get me wrong, the fact that this is a brand new keyboard app and not a fork of the AOSP one with no significant changes (hi OpenBoard) does throw quite a large wrench into the works, but development is going so slowly even on a de-Google’d ROM I had to resort to switching back to Gboard with internet access cut off to have anything I write have any sort of resemblance to understandable language.

There once was a r/195 which I’m late to the party for but was apparently just a dumping ground of memes by a bunch of students who all lived in dorm room 195 (or something along those lines) so when it shut down people who wanted to keep something like that going decided to set up r/196

The only rule (technically there were a few more such as no NFT avatars, or that one specific person could post porn if censored correctly) was that you had to post something before you left if you opened the sub. So it became a weird meme dumping ground, and because the mods weren’t assholes it ended up being a pretty nice space for left leaning folk and gender minorities.

No clue why posts are just titled “rule”. I assume it started out as people simply not having a title in mind when posting, and then just kinda stuck.

Because of the slow nature of content I ended up being subscribed to more communities than I would have back at Reddit. My feed is still 99% 196 just like in Reddit, but instead of needing to pop into r/all or r/popular every few hours, the New Comments sort ends up “sprinkling” interesting stuff from other communities into my feed.