laenurd @ laenurd @lemmy.lemist.de

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The official online community of a multiplayer game. E.g. there are numerous private WoW servers, but the biggest and most relevant community plays on the official servers.

I didn't mean those games specifically, just wanted to underline my point that multiplayer games are popular in Russia.

From the exorbitant numbers of Russians playing DotA and CS:GO I would assume there is a significant part who enjoys playing online games.

And while, sure, there are numerous examples of alternative networks / cracked servers etc., If you want to participate in "real" community of one of these games, you'll have to use an official client.

Yeah it has more to do with it being a native Android app, not using flutter / react native / electron (🤮) or other bloat.

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For a little perspective:

Mastodon has an official way of migrating your account. It migrates your followers and accounts you follow, but doesn't migrate your posts afaik.

Migrating posts (and comments in Lemmy's case) would be iffy in itself imho and I'm also not sure whether that would even be possible since posts are synchronized to federated instances, where they would have to be updated too.

Maybe I should clarify:

I don't mean the existing gesture which zooms by a fixed amount when you double tap. I mean double tap and hold, where you can pull down or up to adjust the zoom.

Yes. You can use the search function for that, just search for "community@instance", so for example "worldnews@lemmy.world".

Linking to communities from other instances works similarly, using a "!": !worldnews@lemmy.world

You can also append this type of address to your instance url like so:

https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews@lemmy.world

As long as another instance is not explicitly defederated (blocked) from yours, you can visit any community from any instance this way.

Can we not post YouTube links and other (video/audio) commentaries in news communities?

Do you perform the gesture by swiping in from the left border of your screen?

You can go back from a post by swiping the whole post right, maybe both trigger at the same time.

Firstly: I was partially wrong about what gets cached, see my original comment.

There is an open pull request which is meant to give some options regarding media serving. Right now it's only a rough sketch though and does not implement a lot functionality.

I was wrong about what gets cached: media that is hosted directly on remote instances is not cached, while media from outside sources (imgur etc.) is cached and served from that cache.

So, from a small instance's point of view, the best case scenario would be if everyone used Lemmy's own media hosting exclusively. But that would, of course, greatly increase the storage requirements of larger instances.

I updated my comment as I was partially wrong about what gets cached.

I was partially wrong about what is cached and updated my comment.

That would be great to know, any chance you remember where you read that?

The obvious way would be to just not cache content locally and always link to the source instance. While this would concentrate the strain immensely, it would also greatly decrease the storage space used by all other instances.

There might also be other viable alternatives such as using a CDN and having it selectively cache content which is requested often etc.

~~As of now, Lemmy does not support either, though. ~~

Edit: I want to clarify that I was partially wrong - Lemmy only locally caches content which is hosted on outside sites. It does (should?) not cache content that was directly uploaded to a Lemmy instance and just embeds the source media.

Right now you can only disable caching of nsfw content by disabling NSFW for the instance, but of course this has nothing to do with "soft" rules that are only written out in text.

Imo the best solution would be to allow admins to have more granular control over caching, e.g. disabling caching for specific instances / communities or whitelisting. And we need an option to disable caching altogether.

Agree. If I'm not mistaken, you can only disable the caching of sensitive (NSFW) content on your instance by disabling NSFW in general. This doesn't go for SFW content though.

It shouldn't be very hard to do this for all content though, if I find the time I might look into implementing this.

Also probably ITT: many non-Americans to whom that draconian law thankfully does not apply

No need to thank me, currently I am the only non-bot-user of my instance and do not allow registrations 😅

Many of the bigger instances have links to donate to their operators, but I am doubtful that relying solely on donations will be enough in the long run.