I fear we’re going the idiocracy route. Lower and lower intelligence of the population in general.

The removal of the custom thumbnail is refreshing. No more wired reactions with an arrow pointing at something.

I’m going to give this a try. The sponsorblock people have great ideas!

I’m realizing that a few weeks ago I wanted a lot of people to flock to Lemmy and away from Reddit. At this point I just don’t think about Reddit anymore and find myself hoping Lemmy doesn’t get too popular because of everything that comes with that (trolls, meme posters, bots)

There’s currently a bug with “hot” and “active” where old posts remain at the top. I don’t remember the details but it’s getting fixed in v.0.18 (which is already in release candidate 4).

There are two solutions until the fix is released:

• get your server admin to reboot the server everyone in a while. This seems to temporarily refresh the content.
• use “new” or “top day”. That’s what I’ve been doing.

How does Proton VPN compare to Mullvad? I’ve been using them for years and they really are anonymous. You don’t even provide an email to create your account.

Your second to last point really rings in for me. You’d think with all the posts and traffic on Lemmy that there would be ad clutter or push for other internal paid brands, but it’s just so clean and only about the posts and comments.

Also a Plex lifetime user. I tried jellyfin not too long ago to see what the fuss was all about. I had heard that they handled her tonemapping better.

The interface is different but more or less just as good as Plex. It’s definitely more for the person that likes to dive in the details of the config of their server. For example, you need to setup your own domain for external users to connect to. It’s not done automatically like on Plex.

The focus on your content vs the “free” content Plex shoves in our face is nice I must admit.

Just a question of preference. In the end I stuck it out with Plex… For now.

Better than Lemmons or Lemmurs I guess.

I’ve found CloudFlare tunnels to be really useful. You can restrict who can have access to your apps outside your nextwork. You can also leave it completely open if you want.

When Reddit said moderator tools were exempt from the API pricing, did they mention the tools would stay as is?

I’m assuming not since the mods are still protesting.

I’m out of the loop of the details regarding the impact on mod tools.

I can only imagine that 5his wasn’t a recent interview, but I know it’s not the case. He’s completely lost it. Very out of touch with what made Reddit Reddit.

My setup is running NPM and I can’t complain, but I’ll look into caddy as I’ve seen it mentioned a lot.

I saw it mentioned here, I likely won’t change on my setup until something breaks though. 😂

As a father of 2 the steamdeck has been amazing for me! It’s allowed me to get back into games for short sprints.

That said I’ve been revisiting:

• doom
• doom eternal (not so old)
• the Wolfenstein series
• days gone

I didn’t know Lemmy could run on arm architecture. Is your installation with docker?

It’s like they say, universal free school meals leads to a lazy population and communism.

Jokes aside, I really don’t understand their fear of anything that resembles socialized programs.

I really think VC is to blame for a lot of it. Although not in Twitter’s case… And I assume meta is backed by a VC (although they might be).

In the end it comes down to these investors wanting a return on their investment and those in charge of the VC usually go one of two route:

• inject ads in as many places as possible
• track as much of the users data and sell it

They don’t automatically block you. Beehaw seems on the lookout of troublesome users more than other instances. When they notice a lot of those users are coming from the same instance, they just defederate it until better tools become available to moderate.

I’m still federated with both instances. I’m also the only user on my instance.

Yeah I agree that enough attention has been placed on Lemmy for it to pop in Redditors heads when they start thinking of other sites to go to. It won’t happen overnight but that’ll also give the Lemmy devs time to apply some fixes and add new features.

For me it’s available but not reliable. There’s always something that forces it to shutdown. There are frequent delays and the monthly fees are really getting up there.

I’m curious about the mod tools. Is it possible to moderate a small to medium sized subreddit without those tools? To me, the mods are the glue behind it all. If a subreddit goes off the rails because of bot spam and toxic/hate posts, people will just go elsewhere.

So if mods stop moderating because they don’t have access to their tools, this will likely happen at one point or another.