There’s a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

Right now I’m using Liftoff.

TIL!

That was it exactly. Thank you.

This was a journey, so I’m documenting it here for anyone who might run into a similar situation.

I’m using a Chromebook with Linux enabled.

To confirm my version of Python I ran python --version:

Python 3.9.2

OK! Getting somewhere. So I have to check what distribution of Linux is installed with grep '^PRETTY_NAME' /etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)”

Alright. Google says if I want to upgrade Python on Debian 11 I have to compile it from source. Yikes! But, wait, there’s a PPA - Yay! But the PPA is for Ubuntu - Boo.

There isn’t an active community for ChromeOS on Lemmy yet, but that other website has directions for replacing Debian with Ubuntu.

I’m lazy so I’m not doing that. I’m just going to spin up a temporary Ubuntu container that I can delete later, so my directions are much simpler:

Ctr-Alt-T to enter crosh, the ChromeOS developer shell.

vmc start termina
lxc launch ubuntu:22.04 ubuntu
lxc exec ubuntu -- bash
apt update && apt -y upgrade
add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
apt update
apt install -y python3.11 python3.11-venv
python3.11 -m ensurepip
git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip3.11 install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3.11 src/lemmy_sync.py

Success! I had to escape some special characters in my passwords, but that’s easily Google-able.

I’ll be keeping the container around for a little while to do some periodic syncs. Then I’ll remove it using crosh.

vmc start termina
lxc delete ubuntu --force

You might want to check out https://github.com/amirzaidi/lemmy. I stumbled upon it. Beehaw defederated Lemmy.world (info.) This section on defederating may help you understand that if it’s unclear.

Most of us are also new to the Fediverse, but learning every day. Welcome!

I’m getting a TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType' when I do:

git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3 src/lemmy_sync.py

I’ve confirmed that my [Main Account] and [Account 2] details are correct in myconfig.ini, but beyond that I don’t really know what I’m doing.

TIL wasps swarm, and now I have a new fear.

According to this site wasps might swarm if their nest is disturbed, at a change of season, or to establish a new colony (like @fubo@lemmy.world said.)

Always there. Here’s an ELI5 from Bing:

The article is about a very quiet sound that comes from space. The sound is made by things that are very big and heavy, like giant balls of fire or holes that suck everything in. The sound is so quiet that we can’t hear it, but we can use special machines to find it.

The article says that this sound is all around us, and it comes from different places in space. Some places are very far away, like other stars or other worlds. Some places are closer, like our big family of stars. The article also says that this sound can help us learn more about space and how it works.

The article is very cool because it shows that there are many things in space that we don’t see, but we can find them by listening to the sounds they make.

I’ve seen this site suggested in posts like this:

I’m using the spoiler tag because elsewhere I’ve seen this warning about the site:

run by people from kiwifarms (a known bad actor on the fediverse).

I’m unfamiliar with “kiwifarms” but there the site currently has some offensive language at the bottom that’s associated with 4chan, so be warned.

That said, it appears to be the only site currently available to see which instances in the fediverse have blocked/defederated your instance. (The reverse of <instance domain>/instances, which only shows which instances your instance has blocked/defederated.)