Haha yeah. Well I'm an arch user for at least a decade, and i saw manjaro come.. It was very popular in the beginning. Then they started making strange decisions, but I think many people are still happy with it. Otherwise I think endevourOS is doing good. :)
I haven't seen Linux users fights over distros... Ever. We just have lots of choices, and most of them are awesome.
It's a sign of the times that this is upvoted so much. When I was growing up, this was called normal behavior and was boring and nobody talked about it.
Such a chad move. Respect!
Thank you!
Yeah since the content is federated, it's no guarantee that anything is actually deleted. Someone could listen to everything that is posted on the entire lemmy network and copy it in real time to some other database.
So never use real names or give up personal details if you care about your privacy online.
No but I really appriciate you asking. :) I have a good job so paying the server expenses is not difficult. This is also the advantage of using distributed / federated technology - each server can be small and the costs are kept low.
If we gain a lot of users and need to upgrade, we can find some ways for you guys to contribute with some donations, but right now I'm just happy to see people using the instance and enjoying Lemmy.
I hope it can be a small step away from being treated like you are just a consumer on the internet.
Yes I very much agree. Being part of something that is not big tech is really inspiring I think. It shows that we don't need these megacorps to allow us to talk to eachother through their services.
I don't use Google anymore except for Google maps in my car. :) I guess they can spy on where I'm driving. But no search history.
Thanks! Yeah I understand, will check his docs later then and change our settings accordingly.
Thank you. :)
Ah really? Yeah that's not good. One obvious way would be enough! :)
New version of Lemmy just got released by the devs. :)
I plan to wait a few days before I upgrade the instance, just to make sure there isn't any weirdness being discovered. It's a small bug fix release so nothing major.
Link to the announcement: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118
If you are a new user to Lemmy, the most important thing is to subscribe to lots of communities so you get a nice feed of new posts and comments.
Click on Communities link at the top and select All. A long list of communities will appear. Subscribe to many of them. You can always unsubscribe if they are annoying you later.
This list of communities are only the ones that someone has subscribed to on this instance already. But there is something like 20.000+ communities in the entire lemmy network.
Go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities in a new tab. If you want to subscribe to something here, copy the link (ex: !humor@beehaw.org).
Paste that link into the search box here at lemmy.today. Make sure Communities is selected in the list box to filter out comments etc.
It should look like this:
Clicking on the green link will take you to the community and you can click Subscribe on the upper right:
And thats about it. If you have any questions, just ask. :)
Hi guys,
Lemmy.today was just updated to 0.18.3 that came out yesterday.
This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.
The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.
In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.
Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.
I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it.
Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.
Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.
Human beings could be great but went for greath.