They are out there... I was doing some exploring of instances the other day. If you look at what instances are blocking it's pretty easy to see what is out in the fediverse.
Figured out Lemmy in about a day... Trying to setup my own instance... 4 hours of failure so far. Lol
I'm a android reddit is fun user for at least ten years and old.reddit.. I am surprised how much I like the Lemmy mobile interface just in browser. Desktop is ok but I have some complaints (centered, not utilizing the width, too much padding on elements). Tried the beehaw themes available, none that worked entirely. The default is totally usable, I'm just being picky. I tried playing around with custom styling but with the modularity of the css it wasn't easy to do just poking around for 15 minutes.
Did you end up using a hosting provider? I'm interested as well but can't host locally.
Getting a compost bin this weekend... looking forward to getting started. Thanks for discussion.
A drink for such a happy occasion is in order this evening.
Yes, from their perspective it was a tactical necessity and I even heard it described as making sense from western analytical perspectives I've heard for that reason. However, it's just another monstrous decision by the RUF, a war crime and provided ample additional suffering, grief and misery to the ukrainian citizens in the region for russia's stupidity. Terrible all around. Hoping Ukraine still has great success on it's offensive.
A DMCA method, Privacy Policy and even a TOS is what is needed to make me feel more comfortable here. Right now, you have no idea what the plan is for your data (and its rentention), data collection, etc. I might dig into the lemmy code and see if I can sus it out myself if I have time.
Ukraine launches counteroffensive against Russia - WaPo
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military’s long-anticipated counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces has begun, opening a phase in the war aimed at restoring Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty and retaining Western support in the war. Ukraine’s troops intensified their attacks on the front line in the country’s southeast, according to four individuals in the country’s armed forces, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the battlefield developments.
Slava Ukraini!
Ukraine launches counteroffensive against Russia - WaPo
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/465584
> KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military’s long-anticipated counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces has begun, opening a phase in the war aimed at restoring Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty and retaining Western support in the war. Ukraine’s troops intensified their attacks on the front line in the country’s southeast, according to four individuals in the country’s armed forces, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the battlefield developments.
Slava Ukraini!
Ukraine launches counteroffensive against Russia - WaPo
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military’s long-anticipated counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces has begun, opening a phase in the war aimed at restoring Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty and retaining Western support in the war. Ukraine’s troops intensified their attacks on the front line in the country’s southeast, according to four individuals in the country’s armed forces, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the battlefield developments.
Slava Ukraini!
For sure, reddit became less transparent with the data retention the further their success increased. In the past they claimed that ip addresses on your account would be removed after 100 days except for the signup IP. I did the GDPR requests for all my old accounts. I have one remaining that I deleted all the content off of until I was permenantly done (which looks soon now).
I just really dislike being targeted for ads and tracked for companies purposes to "advertise" to you. I run a dns sink hole, VPN, ublock on all my devices and I know it's still impossible to be truly anonymous online without being a weirdo and unable to live modern life.
I'm the sameway. I use firefox exclusively and have for years, love it, began using their password manager for a few years now and I'm thinking about an alternative to that I manage. I've already been a part of huge databreaches. I would sure hate for my passwords to be out there. I mean, it's dangerous AF.
That is fantastic! I hope you enjoy it! Amusingly enough, I read it often as a vacation book. Something about actually being detached from life's everyday bustle allows it to "hit" good for me. I just flipped through my book to look at the chapters and remember it. It's been a bit since I've read it. Time for a fresh re-read. Let me know your thoughts after and enjoy!
Photos: Rescue, destruction in flooded Ukrainian region. WaPo
Heart goes out to our Ukrainian friends. Slava Ukraine! Keep up the fight.
Right? It does feel nice at the moment at least.
To me, day 1 here, it feels like a niche subreddit about something you enjoy but that's the whole platform. The federation and the ability to have multiple of the same communities moderated differently is intriguing idea to me. I think reddit's troubles began ultimately with it's popularity. More content, less quality, more of an inclination of reddit for monetization. This is going to be an interesting month that will test the capabilities of this idea we are participating in. I feel like it is entirely possible but I hope that not too much strain is placed on each instance operator and their mod team. I want to be somewhere to anonymously socialize without being the commodity. I do have some concerns about Lemmy, primarily, it's lack of a privacy policy and a tos. Really my concern is, if I delete my account for example does it and my content also get deleted? What's the data retention policy? We are seeing this federation could easily be made into a archive like what pushshift for reddit l became which was a major frightening idea that everything you ever posted or commented was archived without your consent or knowledge. This truly is the wild west right now. It's exciting and I'm glad to be here. Just want some understanding of what we are signing up for. Lemmy's dev did say there is no logging of your IP address anywhere except web server logs which is to be expected.
Reading this whole comment thread felt therapeutic somehow. You all get it.
Same. The upcoming API change was really just the final straw that I felt personally that the reddit that I've used well over a decade was no longer where I wanted to be. I didn't want to become targeted and used for someones profit (with the upcoming reddit IPO). Really I've felt that way since the redesign and the official app came out. Just finally was bothered enough to make the switch.
Every time I hear it. I think of "zoltan" from galaxy quest and say it with that inflection.
Maybe history shall repeat itself instead of the "little boats" that saved the BEF at Dunkirk. It will be the "little sats" that save someone else!