Zetaphor @ Zetaphor @zemmy.cc

Developer, 11 year reddit refugee

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My friends instance, crystals.rest, is hosted on a $5/mo Linode with 1GB of RAM

Putting all of the large communities on a single instance is just reddit with more steps. It's good that one of the larger Lemmy communities is not also on the largest Lemmy instance. Lemmy.world suffers a lot of outages (in part because it's so centralized), meanwhile this community remains available.

Open settings, go to search from the left hand menu, scroll down to the list of search shortcuts and either permanently remove the ones you don't want, or just click the checkbox next to it and it won't show up in the address bar.

Also that level of pixelization is easily reversed, better to just black out the parts you don't want visible.

I welcome any alternatives to the current situation, but unfortunately that's where we are right now.

The only solution would be a massive effort that requires decades of engineering hours and a few million dollars.

It's an understandable response. They were previously in a position where this was such an obvious concept that it didn't merit any thought, and now they are required to have an understanding of networking and federation in order to understand how well actually this a fundamental part of how distributed systems work and isn't technically a bug.

From their perspective this seems like a fairly straightforward problem. Obviously (to us) it's not, but the threshold for the fediverse shouldn't be that you deeply understand federation if there's ever going to be meaningful adoption.

As an aside, your personal domain is timing out.

You could always try Asahi Linux if you're on a newer MacBook

This is not obvious to anyone who doesn't have some understanding of how networking and federation work, which is most people. Especially if we're talking about users who have only ever experienced centralized platforms.

It should be called "Known Network" or something more transparent that doesn't require an explanation of indexing

Firefox is actually a bit faster and lighter than Chrome these days. Worth checking out it or it's forks over Chrome

Lesser of two evils

I'm not sure what you're looking at there? I don't use Edge, I'd reccomend checking the tutorial on Greasyfork or checking Youtube.

It should be as simple as clicking the Tampermonkey icon, clicking the settings option, and entering some keywords to block:

I have a userscript for this purpose:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter

but if you need me to leave, I can. I get that a lot.

I don't think OP is suggesting this. It's simply a reminder to those who have the privilege of having extra income that contributing to the core devs improves the experience for everyone, regardless of their individual ability to contribute.

I'm personally happy to donate if it means everyone gets to continue enjoying the growth of the platform, as the real value of the threadiverse is user activity.

You're not paying to remove ads from Lemmy. You can continue using Lemmy ad-free on mobile via the mobile site or any of the other PWA's or native apps. What you're paying to remove ads from is Sync. The developer has decided that they need to be compensated to sustain the amount of effort developing and maintaining the app requires. If you don't want to pay that price with cash or your eyeballs then don't use it.

Nobody is forcing you to use Sync, nobody is forcing you to see ads. The beauty of a platform like Lemmy is you have the choice to use whatever client you want. That doesn't mean you're entitled to any of them.

There's an expression I think about a lot, "You can't think when you're hungry"

Unfortunately principles and ideals are calorie-free

We may not like it, but this is what progress looks like?

Or install ReVanced and enjoy all of that for nothing, including Sponsorblock

The hype is because Sync was a long standing and well respected client for reddit, that is now available for Lemmy.

For many users this means they can finally try Lemmy through an interface they know from a dev they trust.

I don't use Sync, or Infinity, but the more the merrier!

Welcome! Here's a Youtube Short from @misnina@crystals.rest that I think does a great job of summarizing Lemmy and the Fediverse:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lOweVru5dO0

I'm also seeing this take place on the desktop site. The Sync admin can't really do anything algorithmically as that isn't supported by the API

He could request top posts in X time frame, like last 4 hours or so and then do manual sorting, but it seems more likely that it's just an influx of users as a result of the app releasing.

This is a known bug in 0.18.3, a fix will be in the next release:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1999