Hehe yeah, that’s always fun. The bare concrete. At least it’s better then Germany, where you have to bring your own kitchen…

When I had the viewing of my current apartment, they said they were gonna give me a 10 litre bucket of white paint. Even tho the place didn’t look that badly painted, but more because they always did that.

Yeah I think it’s the same… new apartments come with almost everything including the proverbial kitchen sink.

My current place (built in 2008) has a kitchen that includes an microwave oven, fridge and stove top. The only thing it doesn’t have is a dishwasher.

As a fellow Dutchy… my current place is the first place I ever lived in that came with a combination oven and microwave.

Previously I’ve always had to supply my own microwave / oven ;-)

Oh this guy is my inner spirit nerd.

Same…

Usually it isn’t hard to implement…but that largely depends on the backend.

Might take a crack at this, this weekend.

Make sure to check the issues/PRs, it looks like people already worked on CTRL+Enter.

Oh damn! That’s nice! But that means I have to find another thing to do :P

On the frontend, it’s primarily React and Bootstrap. I do have some experience with React (with TypeScript), so that’s good! And Bootstrap, that has been a few years…

Hahah… Shit, now you got me intrigued… xD

Yesterday I was annoyed at wide code blocks being wrapped, instead of having a horizontal scrollbar, so I took 20 minutes of googling and hacking around with my minimal css skills and wrote a PR, it’s already merged and will probably show up on instances soon.

Very nice!! Congratulations!

Maybe you know more about web or android development, then you could look into contributing to the lemmy-ui or jerboa.

Yes that’s definitely one the things I am leaning towards. On my main “gripes” with Lemmy right now, is the lack of keyboard shortcuts (think of stuff like, CRTL+enter to send a reply for example). So I wanna see if I can add that in the frontend repository.

One of the first things I did when I learned about Lemmy and joined an instance is see if I could contribute in some way, shape or form.

But unfortunately it’s written in Rust, a language in which I have 0 experience and 0 knowledge. :(

Oh definitely that the next couple of weeks will be spent preparing for a new wave. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the reason why Lemmy.ml was down. Yes I know that it was because of a server migration but, that server migration also didn’t happen for no reason ;-)

The first migration wave to Mastodon was very bad. I still remember, that following a person was nearly impossible. Not to mention the fact that, even if you could follow someone, it didn’t automatically meant their messages ended up in your feed.

I know for example that version 0.17.4 of Lemmy (that was released 2 days ago) already has some database optimizations.

I’m not sure the ‘like email’ thing helps. Email is confusing and not what most people use to connect with others. I don’t know anyone who met via email.

In my experience it at least helps in the sense that, when people ask “why are there more then 1 site?” ? And up to a certain degree you use that to explain the concept of federating.

In theory, I agree with you! A 100%, but the problem is that currently Lemmy doesn’t support migrating your profile to a different server. So that already slightly complicates things. So from the get-go they are forced to make choice. A choice which isn’t clear, what potential consequences are and the fact they currently easily migrate to a different server, obviously doesn’t help.

“Like email” is basically the same description I’ve been using to explain it to non-tech people.

Long story short, onboarding needs to get better. But that also applies for other Fediverse projects (like Mastodon or Friendica).

After doing a WHOIS, it appears that Lemmy.ml is hosted on OVHCloud.

Edit:

As follow up on that, OVH cloud does appear to be doing some maintenance on their infrastructure: https://www.status-ovhcloud.com/

In short, yes it will take longer to “catch up”.

The longer answer, be patient. This is an issue that will be resolved. I’m sure that the admins are doing their best to get the instance up & running ASAP.

From my experience during the great Twitter migration to Mastodon, you saw the same thing. Especially the “main instance(s)”, mastodon.online and mastodon.social in this case, were overloaded to the brim. After a day or two, the sysadmins and developers were able to stabilize the instance.

The sysadmins in this case were responsible to keep the servers up and running (and scale up where needed). The developers because their code has been “battle tested” for this level of interaction. So changes were needed, to optimize and squash bugs.

I hope this helps 😊

Very very likely that they will get defederated in a day. Most people will most likely interpret it as a Meta’s way of gathering more data.

Tbh, I totally forgot that Ohanian left Reddit like 10 years ago 🤦

I used to have a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic and recently upgraded to a Keychron Q10. Both are excellent keyboards. Both are splitted

The Sculpt is a membrane keyboard but a very good one at that. You can get the Q10 with either blue, brown or red switches. The only thing that bothers me compared to the Sculpt, the Q10 doesn’t come with a palmrest. So in that regards, you need to bring your own.

Oh sweet, sweet irony.

Dude, that looks great! Awesome job!

I think it would be awesome, if you can get this merged into the UI of Lemmy! That way all users (not just the ones that know about this) can benefit from it.