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You can circumvent this by connecting to a router that has no access to internet. It will connect to the router, fail to connect to the internet, and then you can tell it to skip the initial setup and enable sideload mode.

The real problem is that everyone is using the “All” tab as a content feed. Ideally everyone would subscribe to communities and then they wouldn’t have to worry about seeing things they don’t want to see. Lemmy needs to be bigger before we can break that anti-pattern.

I use FreshRSS on desktop (web client from my self-hosted instance), and Readrops on Android (synced to my FreshRSS). For Lemmy notifications specifically you’ll likely want a dedicated client that is noisy. I was using Brief for this task temporarily, with only one RSS feed loaded and having it set to delete all but the latest message.

The app I use (Eternity) has options for 15/30/60/etc mins. You can theoretically get notifications every second if you set up your own RSS reader to check that quickly (though be considerate of your instance’s resources). Before I settled on my current solution I had an RSS reader check every so often and ding a desktop notification when it found something. I use 30 minutes because if I’m using Lemmy I’ll see the notification alert anyway, and if I’m away from Lemmy I don’t want to be notified potentially every 15 minutes when people keep replying.

Your inbox has an RSS feed that you can hook up to whatever RSS reader you want. Personally I let my Android app watch for notifications every 30 mins, and then KDE Connect will mirror that notification onto my PC when my phone dings.

Catbox has been operating for at least 8 years and has a clearly defined server cost + donation plan through their FAQ+Patreon, which also notes that they are happy to front any extra costs that the Patreon doesn’t cover. I’m going to guess they’d rather shut the site down than start serving ads.

catbox.moe should work

r/linux4noobs -> !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip or any of the Linux communities seem to be responsive to questions. I think in these early stages the more niche communities need to exist within the larger communities. If the niche community gets too disruptive to the large community it can break out into its own community.

This type of post may be better suited to a community like Fedidrama or something but I appreciate keeping track of events like this so that we’re keeping transparency on instances. If no one gives their side of the story when they get banned then we don’t have records in case of admin abuse. Especially in the Fediverse trust and maturity is paramount when choosing instances to build communities on and to be a member of.

I agree. They’ve publicly and conspicuously begged for donations for years now, and clearly not enough companies have answered the call. Without enough funding they are forcing companies to pay for their usage of the Matrix components by using AGPL and selling licensing exceptions. This is not a great scenario but it is probably the only way the project can survive at this point.

There is a lot of discussion on the controversial switch to CLA here, which most importantly includes several posts from Matthew (username Arathorn) where he justifies their decision. I believe the rationale and I don’t think anyone wanted this to happen, but I’m also ready to cut ties with the project if they pull anything shady with their newfound power.

They’ve been calling for donations from companies using their project for a while now, and now it looks like they’ve had enough.

There has never been an official “global score” for users. If you ever saw one it was being calculated by your app/front-end.

Edit: per jet’s reply it looks like it actually was historically in the API but not exposed on most apps, so calculation was done by the instance and not the app/front-end. It seems like they’re being removed entirely from the API soon or already have been.

I’ve blocked all the news communities for a start. Maybe I’ll let one through eventually, but I’m sick of seeing 13 duplicate posts about how Elon Musk said that penguins can’t be trans or something equally useless.

As for getting more toxic in general I haven’t noticed anything drastic but my gut feeling is that as Lemmy grows, more people see a post, and as more people see a post, the better the odds that one person is going to start an argument. Even if 99.99% of the Lemmy community is not toxic, it only takes one person to reply.

67. vote manipulation

Just 1 so far. In the future I might make an alt on another instance as a backup or something, but so far it doesn’t seem necessary. My current instance has a ridiculous amount of donations and a good sysadmin so I’m not worried about it disappearing at the moment.

That seems to be their goal, though they are probably targeting specific instances that they notice most often. I think Yiffit tried to convince them to just block NSFW content or just specific communities instead of defederating entirely but apparently that didn’t work - I’m not in the loop on how the conversation went.

For the record Lemmy.ml does actually disallow NSFW, and they defederated from Yiffit.net (a general furry instance) because it has NSFW communities. Tread carefully around them or they’ll remove you from the Lemmyverse, is the apparent message.

Hey this is your friendly reminder to spread out in the Fediverse. Stop making communities on the big servers. Now all those users just lost a big chunk of content and they’re likely to leave Lemmy and spread the word about how the Fediverse will never work because of trigger-happy admins.

Similar for me - I’ve been writing scripts since I was young. I write scripts and programs for myself whenever I need them, and I feel like it’s a great skill to have in your toolkit if you’re a computer power user.

On a side note, I’ve never thought of a good response for this question when someone looks at my career and my salary and they’re like “I wanna do what you do”, because I’ve been doing this as long as I can remember. I don’t know how realistic it is to tell someone who’s never been interested in computers that they can be a programmer if they really try.

I think the problem may inherently be the front page. Memes are more likely to be upvoted, whereas discussions are probably taking place in smaller communities. I’d suggest subscribing to text-based communities that you want to follow discussions in.