Love the trellis.

I'm not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue "You are not logged in..." boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.

I don't think Reddit will die and agree that the majority will return. I will browse my favored communities in both and favor participating here. That said, the Lemmy universe has been in rapid expansion for 2 weeks. It's premature to judge it for the fragmentation of communities at this stage. I strongly suspect the ergonomics of finding and subscribing to a community you want will improv over the next six months.

You can rss instances, but I don't think that is possible across all instances.

Why is php a bad thing in this case? It seems like exactly the kind of application that php is well suited for. Plus there's the maturity of php's major frameworks. While I'm not saying Rust is necessarily bad for building web applications, it's web frameworks must be less mature and battle tested. Plus, it seems like a lower bar to get community dev contributions for a php project than rust.

There certainly seem to be topics I track where forum activity outpaces Reddit. Haven't explored Discord for the purpose. I would like to see communities emerge or move to something on the activitypub - lemmy devs made a forum frontend (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB). The potential seems to be there to provide a forum interface/experience that federates.

I like your ranking. I sit in a couple of xmpp muc for xmpp client projects, but there are virtually no public non-xmpp related xmpp rooms. But doesn't really cost anything to start one I suppose.

Small servers also tend to disappear, though. As far as I know, federated content simply goes away when the server does.

I don't use SimpleX, but it's hard to argue against a well developed open source privacy focused messaging app. There are a million "privacy-focused" messengers out there with various flaws around security or sustainability. Matrix is great but the goals seem a little different. Plus, it wasn't that long ago that Matrix was struggling to find funding.

What's your xmpp server of choice?

Ah, that answers an important question I had - wasn't sure whether to give it oxygen. But sealing it up should keep the mosquito population at bay. Very much looking forward to it.

Out of curiosity, do you ever make worm tea from castings? Sounds like no with your flow.

Too short of a season in worm temp ranges for me unfortunately. My current ideas in various stages of testing (and testing list formatting here):

1. Bokashi - can't seem to get it to ferment and not rot. Also doesn't come out as finished compost, but good to mix into soil or worm bin to finish.
2. Fish - have tilapia, but would like something that attacks veggies more voraciously. Maybe pacu or giant gourami, but I don't have an adequate setup sized for either. Anyway, waste veggies -> fish -> nitrate water and solids removal for gardens and/or aquaponic grow beds.
3. Throw yard weeds and kitchen organic waste into a tub with water, let it sit for a couple of weeks, and use the water as fertilizer (I think it's called JADAM?). Getting a 55 gallon drum to start that experiment at the end of June.

My basement bin setup attracted roaches, so I pulled the plug on it. Disappointing outcome, but I love the concept.

I think that would be a great addition.

To be fair, most tech companies had layoffs in the last six months and it seems that most were bigger cuts. Also, my best guess is that Reddit has been unprofitable/burning cash from the beginning (~18 years) - that can't and won't last forever.

Writing a little password generator for learning and personal use. First cli, then adapting to tui, gui, and web. After, will either pick up my dns log analyzer project or try to write a barebones xmpp bot then client.

I'm on board with the rain barrel concept - and I think if I raised it a couple of feet above the elevation of the garden, it would generate decent pressure sticking a valve at the bottom. Would need to do some math about the pressure needed to feed drip lines. But if I'm not mistaken, rain barrels generally feed from gutters that feed from a roof. I need something wider, which is where the RainSaucer concept came in. Maybe I could DIY something out of a tarp.

I don't know if this qualifies as a house project. but my veggie garden is ~10-15 feet of elevation above my garden hose spigot. My understanding is that I would theoretically need a very expensive backflow preventer if I was to pressurize a line up to the garden, and I don't have a convenient way of burying a line anyway. I'm getting a little too worn down to lug 5-10 gallons of water uphill.

Plan 1 was to put a rain barrel at the top of the hill with a rainsaucer...but the rainsaucer company went out of business a few years ago and I haven't found a suitable alternative.

Plan 2 is to put a bucket at the top of the hill and use my hose sprayer to fill it from a distance. Won't be super accurate, but it doesn't have to be!

I'm conflicted about the slur filter episode. Sure, a clever way to moderate a brand of toxic community participants. If I'm not mistaken, moderation tools were far from mature at that stage and lemmy.ml was an active community dealing with community issues. I wasn't involved in the community outside of keeping an eye on the project development and perhaps the community needed a heavy handed solution - not for me to say. But the implementation left some questions and from my memory, dev response to pushback was not positive. I think it took over a year, maybe two, to remove.

That was the first exposure many, many people had to the Lemmy project - it probably resulted in a lasting erosion of trust in the software among people who had/have no interest in using the blocked slurs, and formed an impression that will continue to echo for many years despite the filter being removed. The impact goes far beyond people who would use or defend the use of the excluded language.

Assembled a server with Supermicro X9DRL-IF board and an old case. I figured I wanted ecc to safeguard against corruption on top of using btrfs. Harvested old laptop drives to build out a decent sized storage array for my purposes. Rationale overall was: cheaper to assemble than a purpose built NAS that had ecc and moderate compute power, more storage expansion options.

99% of the function has been serving samba/sftp shares. Started using nextcloud w/ memories to sync and tag photos from mobile. Standardized everything I run to opensuse tumbleweed/microOS.