Thank you for this post. I was hoping I could ask you a couple of questions because I also had to make some modifications to get Lemmy up and running. I don't have email yet because my isp blocks post 25 and I haven't gotten around to requesting an unblock yet.
I see you've modified your hjson file to use gmail. The default config syntax for email is:
email: {
smtp_server: "postfix:25"
smtp_from_address: "noreply@{{ domain }}"
tls_type: "none"
}
My question is, can I just drop in your email syntax with my information and the instance will use gmail instead of the default?
Reddit uses something called listings which contain 1000 items. If you have more than 1000 comments on your account, you will only ever be able to view the last 1000 of them on a page like that. If you delete 50 comments, the listing is now only 950, it does not refill.
Reddit has given us plenty of legitimate reasons. It's disappointing seeing people fall for conspiracy theories. Reddit doesn't care that you've deleted your comments. It really reveals something I think, and that is a self centered-ness that people have that reddit would find their comments so valuable that they would create a mechanism to restore them after deletion. People who propagate this conspiracy theory reveal more about themselves than anything else.
This is more a function of how Reddit’s databases and listings work. Automated tools can’t find all of your content because of the limitations on listings. It’s really funny though that people are ascribing abilities to a company with a very low competency level.
What they want is freedom to control reality. What Republicans say, every day is not real, they don't live in reality. What they want is not free speech, they have that more than ever. What they want is to dictate reality to the rest of us.
How would you propose getting every mod in Reddit to follow you plan? You’re talking about something in the range of 40,000 people or more.