ShittyKopper

joined 2 years ago

.ml disabled community creation. There isn't much you can do except creating an account at a different instance (and creating your community there)

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The hate Americans get for not catering discussion on a US based site to the global community is really what’s strange.

I just want y'all to stop saying shit like "oh xyz is like 20$ right now" like it's just as cheap everywhere else in the world.

This is why I never bother with any "easy install" scripts of any kind. Give me a list of Docker images, a list of environment variables / config files, and some form of reverse proxy configuration and I'll figure out the rest. You don't know how my server works better than I do.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 12 points 2 years ago

So was 0.18.0. In fact I think the next few releases will all be like this.

(just cheekily testing to make sure federation didn't break between updates)

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm on Matrix and GoToSocial (both selfhosted).

I also made an alt on kbin which is probably where I'll probably end up migrating the "serious" discussion to, so this account will really end up as my shitposting account just like it did back at Reddit.

I also have an account on Tildes under a different name and from a long time ago.

All of these are different enough that I end up checking on all of them quite regularly.

Oh and I have a Discord too but it just feels too overwhelming how fast most guilds (they're not servers and I will die on this hill) move so I really use it to check for updates on shit like Sync's Lemmy port instead of posting memes or whatever.

And finally: YouTube & WhatsApp. both of which are unescapeable. I've tried.

As for the ones I cut off: Facebook around 2015, Instagram since so long ago I forgot, got banned off Twitter several times, and I'm waiting until Reddit gives my GDPR export to bail from there as well.

Edit: Oh, they processed my GDPR export. Brb off to delete my account

Sure why not. Plenty of us have single user instances.

 

As by that point I hope we'll have better inside jokes and things to discuss

This needs to be on the Lemmy issue tracker on GitHub, not here. Someone must've already proposed something similar though.

Also, repeating comments on the same post. Obviously you don’t have to read all the comments if there are already hundreds of them. But if there are too many comments saying the exact same thing it just gets harder to read them all. So it would be nice if people would look whether the point they want to make maybe has been made already. They can increase that comment’s visibility by upvoting. No need to make other people read the same content multiple times and by that make it harder to read different comments.

This may be a little bit of an issue here as small instances (or frequently defederated instances) may not be aware of replies made on older comments. To see the whole reply chain of a comment you need to click the fediverse button (the rainbow star thingy on Lemmy web) and read the source. If people don't do that they may legitimately not know that someone has replied with the exact thing they were about to reply with.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 82 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are "questions about sex" and there are "men/women of reddit/lemmy, what's the sexiest sex you ever sexed" being repeated every other day like on r/askreddit. I assume nobody would reject the occasional insightful sex questions.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Snikket (which is run by a Prosody dev) is aiming to be the "one app" of XMPP. Their Android version is, IIRC, rebranded Conversations. Not sure on iOS/macOS but I think they have something there as well. And of course their server software is Prosody with a few extra plugins configured by default. All FOSS

Yes, the domain to block is "threads.net". Ask your admins to consider doing that.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

(Funnily enough, the Cisco in-house messaging and video calling solution we use at my work, through which we also receive landline calls, is still running on XMPP to this day, so I sorta became a XMPP user after all…except I haven’t started this software in 10 months because fuck landline calls and we have better alternatives for chatting.)

XMPP is still chugging along on the backends of stuff like that. I'm not sure but I think WhatsApp has some XMPP in it still.

The most ironic one though is Jitsi, which is what Matrix uses/used (until they started working on Element Calls) to do video calls.

 
 

We're getting plenty of posts regarding selfhosting Lemmy, but with Twitter simultaneously imploding in on itself I assume a fair few of us here have brought up/thinking of bringing up our own microblogging as well.

Lemmy is the best case scenario when it comes to discoverability within single-user instances, as you can just start following communities and start socializing almost immediately, whereas on Mastodon & co you need to build up a follower base before hashtags and whatnot start federating and it starts being more than just "you shouting out into the void".

So what I'm proposing here is a thread to share your selfhosted fedi presence outside Lemmy, so we can kickstart the discoverability process among each other, and slowly integrate our single-user/low-user/just new in general instances into the wider fediverse.

I guess I'll start off first: You can find me as @shittykopper@toots.w.on-t.work. I haven't posted all that much yet because of the above "shouting out into the void" feeling though, so it's pretty empty for now.

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