It seems like you’re looking for a prescriptive definition of cult and culture that would cover every cult and every culture, and I don’t think you’re going to find one. Humans organize in complex ways that rarely align with strict definitions.

Cults tend to be defined by how they control their members. Cultures tend to form around similarities.

You need actual moderation to keep people safe.

I don’t like the overuse and misuse of Material UI – the paper-looking thing with raised textures and shadows. It takes a bit of work to make it look good, and many sites just drop in a CSS file and call it a day.

Paprika was a real trip.

Thank you!

Please feel free! Source is on GitHub, it uses Astro with the Starlight template.

Thanks, this is lovely!

Thanks, I’ll try it out!

That’s a great way to attract stalkers.

Setting up a Lemmy server outside of the golden path of using the Ansible template is extremely difficult. I do this professionally and I couldn’t get federation working properly when running Lemmy on my Kubernetes instance.

Figuring out why federation is failing is very, very hard.

Lemmy requires a lot of resources to run. You need a VPS that’s at least $20/mo to work adequately under any load. Disk storage requirements for the DB are also rather high.

Lemmy 0.18.2 has some horrendous N+1 DB calls, e.g. one query per language (173 of them) when you create a new community. This hamstrings databases that are not colocated onto the same machine, e.g. neon.tech’s hosted pg db. I expect this will improve with time as the codebase matures, yet…

Instance administration tools are sorely lacking.

“It’s a good filter” is often just an excuse to not improve the UX. You hear this way more from open-source technically-inclined folks than you do from folks who care about building a product that people want to use.

And there’s not a great way to suggest “you might like…” based on your current subscriptions.

Email has the benefit of legacy. Lemmy does not.

I tried to solve this a tiny little bit by giving my own instance a clean and friendly frontpage, but I think I still need to do more work to attract people who aren’t fedi-inclined.

Links between instances often don’t work as intended, and there’s no good way to redirect me from some-other-instance.pub/c/cool-community to my-instance.pub/c/cool-community@some-other-instance.pub automatically.

Highly recommended! That’s how I did my last trip. It was so nice to be able to hop onto a metro train and get going without having to drag my luggage too. Where are you thinking of going?

Maybe you should take what she says seriously.

The camera technology advances significantly every year, so it really matters if you’re a photographer.

Beware of your phone going out of support and losing security updates. Android manufacturers tend to drop devices after 2-4 years, Apple after 4-5.