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1 year ago“Undetermined” is a safe default for when people don’t select a language for their post. It would be silly to assume that if someone doesn’t pick a language, they’re probably writing in English.
Skull giver
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The language selection box is a standard multi-select control, as implemented by your browser. On desktop that means it’s likely a flat list with multiple items you can select, on mobile you’ll probably get a popup with checkboxes. These controls used to be ubiquitous, but given the amount of questions they seem to prompt, I suppose they fell out of favor since mobile phones became more popular.
Assuming you’re on desktop, the list is controlled like file selection in Windows explorer (and probably others) is controlled. Clicking an item in the list selects just that item. Holding down the control key allows multiple items to be selected. Holding down shift allows selecting a range, starting from an already selected item.
See this article for some screenshots if this is still unclear. Multi selection will work in other programs as well!
Unlike Windows Explorer, ctrl+A doesn’t work. To select all, click the first item in the list, scroll all the way down, and shift+click the last item in the list.
It could be that OP doesn’t have the Play Store.
Most people should probably go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect or !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca to get the real links, though.
https://lemmy.ml/c/maliciouscompliance doesn’t exist. You probably meant https://lemmy.ml/c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
The subscriber count is server-local (only counts the users from your server). I suppose it could theoretically be synchronized to be global, but it’s not implemented right now.
The source code for the aggregate community statistics can be found here, I believe: up.sql
create or replace function site_aggregates_activity(i text) returns int language plpgsql as $$ declare count_ integer; begin select count(*) into count_ from ( select c.creator_id from comment c inner join user_ u on c.creator_id = u.id where c.published > ('now'::timestamp - i::interval) and u.local = true union select p.creator_id from post p inner join user_ u on p.creator_id = u.id where p.published > ('now'::timestamp - i::interval) and u.local = true ) a; return count_; end; $$;Notice the
u.local = true, ensuring that only local users get counted in the statistics.
Lemmy hides NSFW posts for users that aren’t logged in. If you check every community sidebar (there’s a list here that links to the hidden communities) you’ll find posts all around.
IMO servers intended to host NSFW content should run a different version of Lemmy that doesn’t censor NSFW content on the front page, but I’m not the site admin.
Hive is a pretty funny name because there are two Hive networks with social features that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I’m going to assume you’re talking about the cryptocurrency based system.
You can post and subscribe from your own Lemmy/Kbin perfectly fine, by the way. I’m on my own server and I’ve only created a single community (for a theoretical blog). What you do to follow a community on another service is search for !community@server.com (maybe wait a sec or search again if it doesn’t show up) and then you can join no problem.
My instance has grown to a few hundred megabytes in size for the messages (almost all coming in from other servers) and then there are the files.
That’s for about 422k entries in the database, so I’m pretty sure all the communities I’m following are the cause. At that point, I don’t think it’d matter if I hosted five people on my server or five thousand; their posts are probably going to end up on my server anyway.
And besides, I don’t need a long term copy of all that data. I can probably purge data every week to keep the database to a few hundred megabytes or so.
Going by this post a $12 VPS with 500GB of storage should do just fine for years if you don’t accept too many files. All of Wikipedia is about 20GB of text, but image files will probably be your biggest issue.
There’s a risk of user rush, but Lemmy’s design allows for manual approval of all user accounts. If you don’t want to run the risk of exceeding your bounds (or dealing with moderation fallout) then only allowing you and your friends would be a perfect middle ground.
I’ve already put in the self hosting effort and honestly I think for anyone who knows what that means, the setup process is much easier than getting moderation right.
However, I have seen several posts about people worried that their accounts might disappear when the server disappears. I think there’s a market for Lenny as a Service/Kbin as a Service. You’d need to market it as something like “your social network under your control” or whatever because “instance” means very little to most people.
Setting up your LaaS/Kaas business may be tricky, though, because you need to figure out how much people are willing to pay (which isn’t much) while also being prepared for sudden scaling challenges when Reddit sheds users again. Luckily Lemmy seems to be very efficient with its resources so you can probably host five or ten instances on a cheap server without trouble (especially if you share the database).
There’s a cache on other instances that contains (some) posts and comments the instance received previously, but everything is bound to break when fetching new comments and posts fails. I wouldn’t rely on it.
Lemmy/Mastodon/kbin/other ActivityPub servers are federated rather than fully distributed. That’s where the name Fediverse comes from (it’s not, like some people think, invented by some federal government). That means servers maintain accounts and data, but can interoperate between each other. This is different from, say, BitTorrent, which can operate almost entirely without servers (through the DHT) and still maintain data.
Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon, and other Fediverse servers work very much in the same way email worked back in the day, when it comes to servers. You can exchange messages between Gmail and Outlook in the same way you can exchange posts between Lemmy and Mastodon, and back when message lists were a thing you could subscribe/post to lists on other servers as well.
If Gmail dies without notice, you can still read the emails you’ve received for as long as they’re kept on your server (back in the old days of 1-10MB mailboxes that wasn’t very long!) but you can’t do much else with it.
Lemmy’s local storage isn’t really meant for safeguarding data. It’ll probably keep messages from other servers for some time, but don’t expect to interact with them well, or to recover your account.
Even in Mastodon, which does support account migration, toots disappear when the original server dies. Moving accounts works by redirecting other instances to the new location, with old toots left at the old place. If a server does after moving, the old toots disappear but the new toots stay up and your followers will automatically follow your new account. If the server dies without moving your account, everything is gone.
There have been some improvements since the invention of email, though. For example, if an email domain goes down, anyone can register the expired domain and host a new server, pretending to be the people on the old server and receiving mail destined for their now dead email address.
With (correctly implemented) ActivityPub clients (like Lemmy/kbin/Mastodon), this is impossible without a backup of the database, because every account has a secret key that’s used to verify data (posts, comments, follow requests). So, even if Lemmy.ml goes down and some asshole buys it to send spam from “trusted” accounts, they won’t be able to!
I don’t think there are fully distributed social networks out there today. Even nostr, a Twitter alternative with a basis in blockchain, has the issue that if a “relay” you used to post content goes down, that post disappears. The problem is that all of that data needs to be kept somewhere, and there’s a lot of content to keep. Every message would need to be mirrored a few times because you don’t want to lose your messages when you drop your phone, but you probably also don’t want to store random people’s messages and have a server on your phone drain the battery serving them back to the network!
Your best bet to protect your account is to self-host. That means setting up your own server that you manage, with your own backups and your own rules and accounts. This isn’t exactly a one click thing, you’ll need some Linux server knowledge, but it’s what me and many other techy Lemmy/kbin people do.
It doesn’t prevent duplication, but:
Matrix has this concept called “spaces” in which you can put chat rooms, that can also be nested. In a way, a Lemmy community is not unlike a Matrix space, where every thread is a chat room.
The neat thing is that you can create a space that contains spaces and chat rooms of your choice and either share it with others or keep it to yourself. For example, some open source project use spaces you can join to allow Slack/Discord like messaging (and not just a chatroom) but I personally use private spaces to group my bridged chats.
This doesn’t solve the duplication problem, of course. For that, you can use websites like https://browse.feddit.de/. Maybe some (alternative) frontend/app can integrate with that to suggest finding communities rather than creating duplicates.
However, duplicates are important. Not just in case instances go down and disappear, but also because not every server federates with every other server. You can’t centralize the system on a single community and tell everyone on a big server “sorry, you guys have all been blocked, no more talking about
topicfor you”.Some duplicates are fine, and grouping them rather than artificially uniting them seems like the best solution to me.
As an added bonus, you can install the Lemmy websites as an app (PWA) so it shows up in your app drawer like apps you install from other sources:
Your options are Jerboa or adding the website to your home screen. Both work, sort of, but I don’t think any major developers have turned their attention to Lemmy yet.
It should be possible to take an open source Reddit client (Infinity, Slide) and alter it to call the Lemmy API, but you’d need to tweak the login flow and make sure to show avatars/instances/etc. correctly and I can see that becoming tricky.
Lemmy usage has quickly jumped up so hopefully this will attract app developers to the platform.
Not having an account karma score may help prevent the karma repost bots that ruined the reddit front page. Who cares about karma when you can set up your own server and give yourself a billion upvotes anyway!
For your convenience: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Google_Pixel_3a_XL_(google-bonito)
Looks like there are no standard images available, so you’ll have to follow the standard pmbootstrap installation guide (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Installation/Using_pmbootstrap). Can’t say how well the device is supported, either it’s not very well supported or the wiki page never got updated.