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Salamander
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Once again, thanks a lot for your hard work!
Good thing that not all my posts will show up as edited now 😄 And community-specific search is very handy!
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy Development Update August 2025English
6·10 months agoYou guys are fantastic! I hope you are enjoying or did enjoy your vacation. Thank you for your hard work!
Best of luck raising funds! 👍 Pinned for extra visibility.
I just noticed that featuring will only pin to “All” and not “Local”. It is helpful to cross-post to a local community to pin it more visibly.
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy v0.19.4 Release - Image Proxying and Federation improvementsEnglish
2·2 years agoAmazing work! Thanks a lot!! Took me a few days to get to it but I have upgraded now and it looks great 😄
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy Release v0.19.1 - Outgoing Federation fixEnglish
5·3 years agoAwesome job! Thanks again! Upgraded without issue 🤘🏼
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy v0.19.0 Release - Instance blocking, Scaled sort, and Federation QueueEnglish
61·3 years agoYou are awesome! Thanks :D I hope you get to relax this weekend!!
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy.ml `v0.19` upgrade issues and downtime.English
8·3 years agoThank you for your hard work!!
I appreciate that you going through this test period. I hope it all goes smoothly and that at least a few hairs remain on your heads by the end of this week. Good luck!
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. *Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST*English
5·3 years agoI have been running an instance without a slur filter for about a year and a half. It is not a big instance, but big enough to have some experience in the field.
In case you are curious, 100% of the many times that I have encountered the n-word in my instance it has been in the context of a very banable offense, and it often requires spending some effort investigating and purging images from the database. The slur filter would block many these federated posts and comments from reaching my instance without the troll/spammer getting any feedback about this.
The filter can be a useful practical tool. The reason I keep it off is because I’m stubborn about not policing the words that people can and can’t say. But when I consider what I have experienced and reflect about this, I become more and more skeptical about my choice. The problem is still manageable for my small instance, so I can keep the slur filter off. But I can see that when dealing with this problem at a much larger scale one would want to use any tool at their disposal to make the job easier.
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CESTEnglish
30·3 years agoCool. Thank you for doing this!
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CESTEnglish
54·3 years agoReally cool! I’m excited to learn more about you and the project!
What’s the format? Should we submit questions beforehand, or will you process questions that arrive at the start time? I’ve never participated in an AMA 😅
Upgraded! No issues.
Again, thank you for your amazing work!! :D
Salamander@mander.xyzto
asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Visiting the US soon - do I really have to tip?
46·3 years agoMy view is: I don’t like this cultural element, and I am glad that I live in a country without it. But if I am a visitor from abroad I would not resist the local culture and try to impose my own values. If I am aware of this cultural element and I dislike it, my options would be to either avoid restaurants and other tipping situations as much as I can, or simply account for the tip when making my financial decisions, and pay it.
If I live in the country then it is different, because then I am more entitled to be a driver of change. Personally, my approach would be to support businesses with explicit no-tipping policy, and to refuse receiving tips myself.
I can see them from the computer browser and my phone’s browser (image below), not from Jerboa. At the moment I can only see emojis from my instance, but maybe as other instances add their own images they will become visible too.

In the admin settings there is a tab that allows admins to add an icon. So far I added :lemmy_hearts: and :mander: to test. I am posting from Jerboa now and the custom icons did not get invoked. I don’t know yet if you can also invoke them from a different instance.
What I did notice is that the icon gets fixed to a size that is bigger than a normal icon, and the upload button doesn’t seem to be working - i had to feed the form the direct url to an image.
What do you mean? What is being used?
Wuhuu! Thank you and congratulations!!
Salamander@mander.xyzto
Chat@beehaw.org•PSA: Image posts and blind accessibility.English
12·3 years agoI think that you can add captions to images, like this:
I wonder whether these tools would identify and read out the caption.


What is the justification for selecting the range 2022 - 2025? I suspect that this is cherry picking.
One of the data sources they reference is: https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/data-research/cases/index.html, this site has data up to 2023 (I could not find 2024 - 2025). Here is the plot of the total hantavirus cases in the US vs year:
The number of cases vs year is rather noisy, and 2022 was a particularly low year. Saying that there is a ‘192% increase’ might be technically true but misleading.