Actually we still can add posts and comments, but just users from our instances and the ones we federate with can see it.
I’m a little confused myself as a Lemmy.world user. I was able to leave a comment on a behaw technology forum and got upvotes on it.
This whole Japan nuclear wastewater thing going around the news has me shaking my head.
The word nuclear in general just scares people.
Email is the one thing I don’t bother self hosting.
You need to use an existing host with reputation or most of your emails will end up in junk or be outright blocked.
I had to exit the app to confirm which one was wefwef.
I miss the Wild West days. It built character.
Children today never have to see this kind of shit anymore.
I think it’s just because this guy left a comment, the algorithm picked up the post again.
Kinda like ‘bumping’ a thread in the forum days.
This post is 2 years old lol
Uh no, you can’t. It’s like any game with DRM.
You can’t play most games on steam without logging in at least once.
Just use TLLauncher.
OP hates Linux
Sorry OP, people who like Linux tend to have the same values this platform advertises.
It really boils down to availability. A VPS will usually be more reliable than a home network.
For 99% of personal use though a home network behind a dynamic DNS service will be more than good enough.
I pay them nearly $100 a month for internet. They can get fucked if they want to dictate what legal things I do with it.
Another Pro tip:
If you really want to self host and have good internet speeds, then just use a dynamic dns service to point a domain at your home network :)
It’s free minus the power costs. Sure you won’t be able to guarantee availability but for most personal(and friends/family) use it’s more than good enough.
I say this because the reason a lot of people use VPS is because their ISP won’t give them a static IP. You don’t need a static IP.
I got rid of it 2 years ago for Apollo and tried it again briefly last month.
Somehow it got significantly worse, you can’t even choose how to sort your feed anymore.
The problem is a UI thing too. In wefwef for example half the time you go to post something and it says ‘error posting’, your comment actually did post. But sometimes it doesn’t.
I typically go until I see success and then delete any duplicates I left on accident.
How many minutes of browsing is 600 tweets?
I personally can’t even use twitter anymore because I don’t have an account.
Removing public access to your content is a surefire way to lose the normies they rely on so much for advertising income.
‘Some of you may die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take’
Went Lemmy.world because I had no idea how any of this worked.
Gonna stick with it for now, because there isn’t really a reason to switch. In the future I might switch or host my own.
Will that android technique work on IOS too?
Edit: nvm Apple blocks Firefox extensions, curse you Apple.
It’s non profit by default, the very thing that social media needs.
People who run Lemmy servers do it at their own cost. That’s not to say they can’t run ads or choose other ways to become profitable. The big difference between a lemmy instance and something like Reddit is that anyone can start a new instance if the current one goes to shit. If the admins do something the users REALLY don’t like, they can migrate to another instance way more easily than switching platforms.
Reddit is counting on the effort of switching platforms being too high for lemmy to gain traction. They are wrong.
The developers do it for free, which is common in the open source community. There will always be volunteers to build the software and donors to support them.
MacOS.
Prefer Linux but I like the Apple hardware so I’m giving it a try.