Me. $350 off and $100 worth of storage upgrades on a Pixel 9 pro was worth it for me. Phones now are expensive as fuck but getting a ~40% discount on a brand new product made it easier to accept.

Loving the new interface. Seems like it fixed quite a few of the small issues I’ve had with the UI. Subscribing to a new community from the sidebar is fixed on desktop. Expanding an image, then voting on the post doesn’t collapse the image anymore. Voting on posts and comments seems to be almost instant now (probably related to upgrade, but not 100% certain). The “Darkly-Compact” theme is amazing, much more like old.reddit. Haven’t seen anything about whether or not @TheDude devoted more compute resources to the instance, but everything seems so, so much more snappy than a few days ago. Read that @db0 somehow tweaked the query parameters for the PG database, which helped reduce the server load (announcement link here). Maybe that would be worth looking into as well to optimize even further.

Edit: Looks like @phiresky has been contributing to Lemmy on GH, I wonder if that’s what db0 meant. Though not seeing any commits directly related to DB queries.

I’m so conflicted rn. On one hand I hate Facebook but on the other I love cinnamon buns. Random app idea (you’re welcome), app on home screen and when pressed places order of 4 cinnamon buns for delivery. “Piping Hot Buns” coming soon to iOS and Android.

Outlook is one of the worst offenders for that kind of thing. Completely plausible Microsoft shitcanned the email before it ever made it to your inbox/spam folder.

Well aware. I believe one of the admins is taking care of it rn. u/fuck u/LollaCatt and u/crappy are the three I’ve seen so far spamming community creation calls.

Sent the three site admins PMs about the new accounts and communities around 10 minutes after /crappy account was created. Had already made over 400 communities in that timeframe.

If you want to ask TheDude specifically there’s no need to open a comment thread here, you can just PM him directly.

You can always make an account at lemmy.sdf.org. I was checking them out a few days ago and they have no servers blocked at all, and sdf is a really great organization to boot. This server will in time defederate other instances, of that there is no doubt. Discussions and voting on it have already happened, and may or may not be implemented, or invalidated. If you’re looking for an instance that haven’t defederated others, there are many options to choose from like the one I posted above, or you can choose to stay here and try to change minds, but you’ll likely be facing an uphill battle.

That was the first thing I ran into today lol. Got a new inbox reply from an AMA post about their new community and when I tried following the link there was no way to subscribe. Tried back again maybe 30 minutes later and it worked without issue though. Maybe has something to do with the browser cache on Firefox?

Edit: Firefox latest on Linux

Yeah It’s kinda like fitting a square peg into a round hole as far a as usability in this state, but as an example of interoperability it’s pretty exciting IMO. And it’s cool when scrolling through a thread in Lemmy someone can just pop in from their Mastodon and make a comment or reply to one without needing a separate account or service. I’m not even sure if the Mastodon devs are interested in making that flow more seamless or not, but it would be cool to see.

This is awesome! I would occasionally see someone showing up in a thread using their Mastodon account (usually fairly noticeable from the hashtags appending the message), and did get a bit curious about the workflow to do that. Seems a bit unintuitive, but honestly not nearly as clunky as some have made it out to be. The fediverse really is something special. Thanks for the informative post!

I get what you mean. It’s not a big deal to me, but coming from something like old.reddit it’s definitely not as nice IMO. Here is a sub that has some scripts you can use with the tampermonkey, etc. to change the appearance of the site. There’s a guide Here with how to actually use them. Not a perfect solution, but if you’re not intent on waiting (potentially for a while) it’s your best bet to getting what you’re looking for.

So I can access the fediverse with my own domain and own my user profile. Currently my profile is owned by the sh.itjust.works server; which is fine, the admin knows what he’s doing, but if it were to ever go down, my user profile and ability to interact on the fediverse goes with it. I’m an avid selfhoster and enjoy having control over my own infrastructure, so hosting my own lemmy instance is right up my alley. I’m not interested in the headaches that come with hosting for anyone else though, as there are quite a few.

I usually see it in Hot sorting, but to answer your question, it’s a bug in the frontend that will be ironed out soon. Coming in the next update (0.18). See linked GH Issue

Same same

Maybe it would be a good practice to keep a cap of say +2 years projected running expenses (as an example). If operating costs go up and funds start to run out call for some more donations.

I guess I just can’t see the connection between a server being small and how that could make you more likely to lose interest in running it. Maybe there’s something to be said about a large instance’s duties to its users, but I don’t have any reason to think an admin of a particular instance won’t shut it down from over-taxing their pocket book, or just not wanting to deal with the thousands of user issues a large instance will bring over a smaller one. I’m not trying to change your mind or anything, that’s just how I see it.

running a server just for yourself honestly sounds like the best option if you have the money for it

If you’re technically inclined it can be super cheap. I’m paying $6 / mo for a VPS that’s way more than capable of running a single user instance and I get to host a lot of other things on it as well. See here, though not all are on the VPS in question.

I get that worry, but I honestly can’t say that I think a small server with little interest is more likely to shut down than a server with huge interest (and it’s associated hosting bills). For ex. I’m panning on deploying my own lemmy instance soon, it’s going to have signups turned off, but if I left them on I wouldn’t really care how popular my server is. The less the better imo because it becomes cheap enough for me to forget I’m admining it until update time comes around and fewer interpersonal issues to deal with because fewer users. Maybe I’m in the minority here, but becoming a huge server with a lot of users doesn’t appeal to me like at all, and having a small user base is only upsides. Once I deploy it’s going to be running for a long time.

Edit: I should have asked if you meant user interest or low admin interest

Honestly for the new user thinking to join just picking something, anything is all that matters.

Each user has very little content on here right now, so if for some reason they don’t like the way things are run on the one they chose they can easily choose a different one without losing much. Profile migration (i.e. copy all your stuff to a different lemmy server) is also something coming that I’m looking forward to.

As a sh.itjust.works user you can see almost anything in this network of websites (500+ servers) except lemmygrad and beehaw. Also the server admin here is pretty cool and seems to know what he’s doing, so I’m pretty smitten with my choice.

As far as the likelihood of a server going down, that’s hard to say as you have no real way of knowing one will be more reliable than another at first glance. TBH I think the smaller servers in the network have the advantage here, their costs to run the server are lower since they have fewer users and less traffic. If they have the creation of new communities turned off, the space required is far less than otherwise. The main detractor with tiny servers is easily discovering whats on other servers. That’s a longer explanation why that is, but it’s like that and I’ve gone on too long already.

Oh god, now I’m just imagining how amazing those tacos are