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  • I would not consider Mermaid complete enough for network diagramming. The very basics are possible, but try to describe anything more complicated throws off the placement and makes the pathing whacky.

    Straight flow charts are the closest you can get to a network diagram, so if you try to draw a link that travels back up the chart, it breaks mermaid’s brain trying to figure out the order of decision points (network devices).

    The allure of text based diagrams is so tantalizing - but if you need them to be functional, it’s not going to happen

    There’s an issue tracking the need a new diagram type to handle it.

  • Communities limited to local participation could still be perfectly visible to other instances. I don’t see many downsides.

    The only question is, is there a point? Anyone can sign up and post, it’d just be a kind of rate-limiter for remote instances that don’t police their own sign-ups well

  • If the files exist, are regular, are correct and the permissions don’t prohibit access, maybe there’s something else blocking the connection attempt.

    Given that it’s ubuntu, could it be an AppArmor thing? Not sure if that’s enabled by default these days.

    Seems to me like it can’t run the binaries, so there’s nothing listening on the sockets you’ve specified. Fix the bin-path issue, fix the problem

  • I evaluated both and decided pretty quickly that lemmy was the way to go.

    I bounced off of the sign-up and initial subscription setup a few times, unfortunately it was during that business with beehaw and I still have ‘pending’ subscriptions that will never be allowed or recieved :P

    All in all, the things that made me pick lemmy were:

    • The atmosphere in discussions (the agora on sh.itjust.works was having excellent back and forth)
    • Documentation for self-hosting and openness of the code
    • Selfawareness of problems the platform faced
    • The boom in 3rd party apps

    Even I have to admit, most of my reasons were lucky, timely and niche.

  • I found out the other day that LibreOffice Draw has a full pdf editor built in.

    I know adobe makes many more products, but boy do I like telling people they don’t have to pay for Acrobat!