Yeah agreed, with enough administrators it could be kept to a minimum especially if users help with reporting comments, posts and so on. But it will still be very hard to completely keep Lemmy clean of trolls and all the nasty stuff we would rather stay away from that reddit has become.

I believe it's the users job to help keep the app safe as well. Administrators can't catch everything which is why it's really good to have a report button. I know earlier today I reported something very serious (like incriminating) on reddit and I reported it and I somehow got banned for report spamming but then the person got a temporary ban for illegal activities.. it's just so sad what that place has become

I'm a free speech activist and open sourced enthusiast. I also work in cyber security and to be banned for reporting illegal activity and then have them walk away with a temp ban is pretty disheartening tbh

I think from what I've seen being on here for a couple hours

1. I love it a lot more we just need to get more active people

2. The idea behind this site is amazing and I like what it stands for.

3. You guys (as devs) seem to be working very hard on this and you all seem to really care about free speech and having a friendly and active community

I will be supporting this site from now on and can't wait to create my own communities and see how it turns out in the future <3

All I had to do was report a pedophile with direct proof to get me banned and it got them a temp 7 day ban -_-.

Reddit is disgusting

I'm new to here and really enjoying it so far. I came here because I'm tired of what reddit has became it's a very dangerous place over there and they should be investigated.

I was curious. I've been a Linux admin for a while and I loved some of the communities on reddit. I'm really good with admin work and watching over communities and servers and wanted to know when I'd be able to create my own community?

I'd love to see a piercing community here where people can talk piercings and ask for advice.

Thank you for making this place awesome so far! I'm also working on my own application

I believe in free speech and open sourced software and I believe in internet security and privacy and always try to inform people on how to stay safe online.

Currently working on my own app similar to this called Freddit meaning ( F*** reddit) 😆

I feel the same way. As someone who studies and works in cyber security I love teaching people about how to stay safe or at least as safe as possible.

Some people don't go the degree I go to just to keep my stuff secure. I use hardened Arch kernels and I hardly even use arch my entire time I spend on a PC is through a VM. I have 2 computers one just for windows and gaming and then one for Linux and cyber security and coding stuff

I hate dual booting and do not like windows being close to my Linux install so I keep them separate on two different computers 😂

Other than doing 3D printing and rendering stuff all I do is study malware and writing my own programs.

Oh this looks very clean! Great work and love arch

Tumbleweed is rolling release so just make sure you snapshot your system once before an update and once after just Incase something goes wrong

Bro I got banned from reddit earlier for reporting something very serious and disturbing and they gave the person a temporary suspension but ban me for trying to make it a safer place. That whole website is fucked. That CEO is POS.

Aaron Swartz is rolling in his grave right now for sure. Used to be an amazing place for free speech now it's filled with worse people compared to 4chan and 8kuk

I wish I knew about Lemmy sooner. I'm loving how relaxed and nice everyone seems here

Some dude admitted to grooming a girl and having sex and a relationship with a 16 year old dude is 27 so I reported it on an alt account

Now keep in mind I am banned from reddit like IP banned so I got on a new account through a VPN and reported this person. This report came back and they temp backend them for 7 days and I woke up the next morning getting perma banned

Now obviously there's a reason why I was permanently banned for the 12th time but I keep doing this to piss them off and prove a point

I report accounts like these and harass the people and scare them off reddit

All I did was try to keep people safe and that's why I'm banned.

Some dude also admitted to jerking off into a girl's water bottle at the gym when she walked away then he admitted to watching her drink it

Like...... Wtf is wrong with people and why do they get away with this shit

Look at what I just posted in this sub. I got a lot worse stuff as well

Most of my days are spent writing malware and studying and testing it to see how it infects a system and how to learn how to stop it I also study malware I find online.

When I say I use a VM almost all my time I don't mean it as my actual "computer"

My computer is a 24 core threadripper beast with 64gbs of ram. When I study malware I do it strictly through a VM and when I'm browsing the word or YouTube I use a VM.

When I'm doing activities such as 3D printing and running my print farm I do not use a VM as it takes a lot of processing power and graphics power to run those programs.

I just like using VMs to learn about open sourced software and how it works and I like breaking and fixing things.

Cyber security is amazing but also sucks when you get a call at 3am lol

If you have any questions send me a message :D

I can't wait to watch reddit burn while sitting back here with some really awesome people in a much safer environment

I'm working on a new app called Freddit (fuck reddit) 😂

That's awesome! Enjoy

Hey, I figured it all out after messing around for a little bit. Thank you so much! You all are awesome!

Make your own sports community

Oh yeah that's right. I totally forgot ooensuse does that 😆 been a long time since I've used it.

I'm on Arch myself. Been a Linux user for 15 years I love it

Thanks for reminding me

You're welcome friend!

Pop OS is based off of Ubuntu so I mean makes sense.

Because back in the day when Ubuntu was at it's prime especially when I first used in on my journey Into Linux 12 years ago it was never enforced and now it's like ubuntu just wants to push snaps on people for no reason

Why Canonical thinks Snaps are a good thing:

saves time for the maintainers: build one image and it works on 4 LTS releases plus current release, isolate tool changes between OS and app.

ability to update app independently of rest of apps and OS (avoid dependency hell, keep OS stable).

sandboxing.

ability to install multiple versions of app in same system.

ability to run same image on desktop, server, and IoT systems.

provides an app-update or even kernel-update mechanism for IoT systems, which often do not have one.

if image is built by original app devs, a simpler faster connection between users and original app devs, for updates and bug-reporting.


single-store model is familiar to potential new users of Linux, who already use that model on Android iOS Firefox Chrome VS Code etc.

single-store model arguably is more secure than adding N PPA's to your software-sources list.

The snap store is also a walled garden made by canonical.

they want control over the user, to protect the inept user from themselves, to reduce frustration and possibly support workload

same concept as Apple or any other company that aims prioritizes having a WIDE target audience

Ubuntu used to be amazing but I had to move on especially since I'm a much more advanced user now

Once the companies start taking control of these distros they go to 💩.

Just look at what happened to Manjaro, in my opinion Manjaro is the most beautiful Linux distro to look at and it was very well done but then the corporate a** hats started taking over and Manjaro has some very sketchy business practices and has broken the AUR even for all Arch users who want nothing to do with Manjaro

What don't you completely understand about Linux firewall? I don't mind helping you learn

You should give Gentoo a try. I'm a 12 year arch user. Gentoo is really solid and fun though. Or hell if you wanna go that advanced try LFS :)

The main one everybody uses at least from my knowledge and from what I've used over the last 13 years is UFW. That is what you want to use.

A firewall is very important not just for being on public Wi-Fi connections. A firewall is your extra layer of protection

I don't know what Distro you run. But it's almost the same for each one

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-ubuntu-20-04

UFW is installed by default on Ubuntu. If it has been uninstalled for some reason, you can install it with sudo apt install ufw.

Using IPv6

sudo nano /etc/default/ufw

That command should come back with this

IPV6=yes

Save and close the file. Now, when UFW is enabled, it will be configured to write both IPv4 and IPv6 firewall rules. However, before enabling UFW, we will want to ensure that your firewall is configured to allow you to connect via SSH. Let’s start with setting the default policies.

Setting up default policies

sudo ufw default deny incoming sudo ufw default allow outgoing

These commands set the defaults to deny incoming and allow outgoing connections. These firewall defaults alone might suffice for a personal computer, but servers typically need to respond to incoming requests from outside users. We’ll look into that next.

To configure your server to allow incoming SSH connections, you can use this command:

sudo ufw allow ssh

This will create firewall rules that will allow all connections on port 22, which is the port that the SSH daemon listens on by default. UFW knows what port allow ssh means because it’s listed as a service in the /etc/services file.

However, we can actually write the equivalent rule by specifying the port instead of the service name. For example, this command works the same as the one above:

sudo ufw allow 22

If you configured your SSH daemon to use a different port, you will have to specify the appropriate port. For example, if your SSH server is listening on port 2222, you can use this command to allow connections on that port:

sudo ufw allow 2222

To enable UFW, use this command:

sudo ufw enable