You can’t have a ton of Pals on your base until you level your base up, but in theory, yes, you can create a gun factory if you work for it.

Ah, I misunderstood what you were saying at first. You’re right, it’s not everything on the instance that gets sent, only those things that federated instances need.

But as a user, unless I run my own instance, I don’t get to decide when my posts or edits get sent out to any federated servers. That’s what I was referring to. All of that stuff gets sent out “like a firehose.”

And over time, as more people on Threads interact with certain ActivityPub instances, the range of communities Threads will be sent updates for might as well be the entire instance. If I block them, that’s just a visual block. My stuff will still be sent to them, and depending on how they set up their federation, my content might be available on “threads.net” as well.

ActivityPub doesn’t just push everything on a server to every federated instance like a fire hose.

I’m pretty sure Lemmy does? I run my own instance and that’s how it works.

Is Mastodon different?

This doesn’t solve the problem of sending Threads a copy of absolutely every bit of activity that happens on the instance. If I’m on an instance that federates with Threads, even if I put them out of sight/out of mind, they still get a copy of everything I do. A lot of people are on the fediverse for privacy reasons, yet here we are with people begging to hand Facebook this data on a silver platter.

“But why hide information that’s public? They could just scrape it.”

Yes, they could. But a real-time feed of activity is more complete, easier to manage, and doesn’t require them to go and build a scraping tool just for this.

If I don’t want Threads to have any of my data sent to them, I should be able to choose without needing to leave an instance I’ve been on for potentially years.

Hey, where’s Perry?

0.12kg over four years??

How is that not within the margin of error?

Unfortunately, there is not a lot of information to go off of here. I was able to upgrade to 0.18.4 with no hitches, and I haven’t seen similar reports of this.

Are you using any custom configs? Do the logs for just the Lemmy service show you anything of note?

docker compose -p lemmy-easy-deploy logs lemmy

In the past, Lemmy itself has had some strange edge cases causing crashes, such as an improper audit log value causing the entire audit log to fail. It’s possible this is a similar case, in which case you may need to file a bug on Lemmy’s tracker.

You are welcome to file an issue with some more information and logs, but if this is an issue caused by a bug in Lemmy, unfortunately I won’t be able to fix it.

If you’re still having issues, feel free to give me some more info on my tracker and I can take a look:

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/issues

Moon Channel, a lawyer who dives into some of the legal topics surrounding the gaming industry, most of them Nintendo related. Really well researched information about emulation legality, modding, even copyright infringement Nintendo themselves committed in the 90’s (in the Mother 3 video), all sorts of stuff.

He also has a few other things, like a REALLY LONG video on JRPGs, or commentary on MMOs.

You should be able to use the SMTP options in config.env to use Mailgun!

We can thank all that tetraethyllead gas that was pumping lead into the air from the 20s to the 70s. Everyone got a nice healthy dose of lead while they were young. Made 'em stupid.

OP’s mom breathed nearly 20 years worth of polluted lead air straight from birth, and OP’s grandmother had been breathing it for 33 years up until OP’s mom was born. Probably not great for early development.

Hmmm, good point. To be honest, I’m not sure if anyone knows how the algorithm works, I’m only guessing.

Maybe content creators would know for sure, but I’m not one :p

You can make “brand accounts” on YouTube that are a completely different profile from the default account. She probably won’t notice if you make one and switch her to it.

You’ll probably want to spend some time using it for yourself secretly to curate the kind of non-radical content she’ll want to see, and also set an identical profile picture on it so she doesn’t notice. I would spend at least a week “breaking it in.”

But once you’ve done that, you can probably switch to the brand account without logging her out of her Google account.

What if you started disliking these extremist videos, and explicitly liking more tame videos with the kind of content she would enjoy? This might tell the algorithm to prefer less polarizing videos over time.

The caveat is, I’ve heard likes/dislikes “don’t count” unless you’ve watched a certain percentage of the video, at least more than a few seconds. So you can’t just sit there and speed through clicking dislike on everything.

Another thing you can try is clicking algorithm-suggested videos that seem less radical than the current one. For example, on the home screen, click on something innocuous that’s trending. From “related videos,” in any video, pick literally anything that’s not what she’s already watching.

You will probably have to do this for a while, but eventually she might “latch on” to whatever the algorithm starts suggesting. She almost certainly won’t stop watching those radical videos entirely - people that age are set in their ways. But maybe you can get her to watch less.

Yes, you will want to copy the entirety of the Lemmy-Easy-Deploy folder recursively, including the live folder.

However, all important data is also stored in Docker volumes on the system. There isn’t a great way to migrate Docker volumes between systems, but there are a few options. One I have not personally used, but seems to look good, is vackup:

https://github.com/BretFisher/docker-vackup

You’ll want to run docker volume ls on your current system, and make sure that when you migrate them to the new system, all the volume names are exactly the same. Then, if you run deploy.sh -f, it should pick everything up and deploy.

Do note: if Docker Compose itself does not create the volume with the right tags, it will still work, but it will print some warnings to the console. Here is an issue discussing it and some potential hacks you can use to add the right tags:

https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/10087

Finally, if you need to re-create a volume on the new system with tags like the above issue mentions, you can try migrating data over between named volumes on the same system using this helpful oneliner (don’t forget to change the volume names in all the places in this command):

https://www.commands.dev/workflows/rename_docker_volume

In short, it’s a bit hacky, but it can be done.

Good luck!

Unfortunately, Lemmy Easy Deploy isn’t well suited for running behind a reverse proxy. It is a complete “do everything for me,” and I don’t have a good way to support people running a webserver already. I’ve pushed an update a few minutes ago, so you can try playing with the ports and maybe turning off Caddy’s TLS (so that certificates are managed by your webserver instead of the one in LED), but I’m sorry to say you’re on your own in that case :(

Lemmy can basically run on a potato. Any VPS will do, but the main metric you’ll want to keep track of is disk space. Any $5/month instance will be fine.

I am a moderate-to-heavy user of Lemmy, and I go through about 700MB of new data per day. If you federate with less communities than me, this may be less for you. At my current rate of storage, I can go for about a month and a half before I have to worry about storage space.

After that, I’m thinking about clearing my thumbnail cache, and seeing if Lemmy has some way to prune old data. I haven’t been using Lemmy long enough to know what to do to clean things up, but if I figure out something clever in a month or two, I’ll share what I learn.

EDIT: Turns out ~90% of my Lemmy data is just for debugging and not needed:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3103#issuecomment-1631643416

Don’t forget to edit all your comments first to say [removed] or [moving to lemmy.world]

Otherwise all your old comments stay on the site but with the username of [deleted]. Posts too.

If you need a tool to do this for you automatically, I think I’ve heard of people using Shreddit. But there are likely a few options.

Plot twist: Johan was a Nintendo eShop developer