Not really a new thing for them, they've been trying to milk r/place since the first one. The last time they let it run too long as well, it needed to be like a 1 or 2 day max thing not a week

Listed as the 3rd most popular article rn too

I thought the idea with lemmy was that the instances would tend to be grouped by topic/area so it makes sense that the people running a tech instance would also be involved in creating/running the tech communities on that instance. Some are more purpose-built than others tho.

Boost has always had ads, it's one time purchase removal

Is this a good idea?

Yes, this is how lemmy is meant to be used.

Is it causing increased load on the server end?

Maybe, if you're the only person on the instance that's subscribed to that community but it's not abnormal usage.

The thing that's missing here most is the niche communities (I'm talking about like the ended 10 years ago tv shows and people are still posting about them). On the other hand, I noticed while most countries have 1 or 2 communities, my country already has at least 7 for specific locations and people still want to make more so it feels very much like home already

Largely by avoiding waterproof or water resistant skincare products such as sunscreen and makeup. Also avoid using nonstick cookware.

Hey those are the reasons I signed up. It's less canada-centric than lemmy.ca. Beeshaw and lemmy.ml are at high capacity rn, it's important to spread new users over multiple servers so welcome!

It doesn't really matter, the NSFW filter will drive most people off. The price is fine, people in US would pay that much just for ad removal anyway but internationally, currency conversion will be harsh in some places. For CAD it isn't that bad atm.

It seems really telling that only one app is going to pay after all their hype about "partnerships".

I'm also a bit more worried about the niche communities on reddit. If some of them don't pop up on their own then I'll start to create some.

A victory and a struggle, I stayed up too late setting up my lemmy account and have destroyed my sleep schedule but I was able to remember to put out the trash at 4am before I went to sleep.

It's hard but stick with it! I'm trying to change my meds and all the appointments suck because I go so used to a phone call for renewal once every 3 months. Especially since my doctor would just call me later if I missed the phone call.

This may help: https://sh.itjust.works/post/4706 This real answer is that it depends on how many online users there are at the same time and how much data is saved.

Try changing your sorting from active to hot, some communities are really active right now compared to others.

Tbh I think an instance not enforcing tagging content as nsfw is probably very strong grounds for blocking imo

CAPTCHA is re-enabled so email verification is optional

Bad programming languages have never gotten in the way of us programmers

Also beehaw doesn't appear on the community browser https://browse.feddit.de/

I don't know if that's really required, there will probably be a mix of specialized and general servers when things settle down which is probably fine. And after the feature for moving communities is done, then they could be grouped or redistributed.

Salamander did the same as you https://mander.xyz/u/Sal and is listed as a mod on nearly all the communities. But I don't really know if "pre-making" a bunch of communities is great for growth cuz when I started here, I found a bunch of machine learning ones but they all seemed dead. Like I've been posting stuff in the community I started just so there's something there and people can get a feel for what it's about.

That's disappointing, I would've hoped that if open signups were their main problem then they would have communicated that. Other instances have "closed signups" but are effectively only bot gateways.

That's not unusual, imo high refresh rates on phones are a bit of a marketing tactic bc they don't really have the computation power to support it when it counts (no one really cares if a static GUI is shown at 120 Hz but it is a waste of battery, you want it for gaming, videos, etc)

People certainly code as a hobby or have personal projects. But I wouldn't say reading a textbook is fun for me, if I want to make a personal app then I'll just learn what I need as I go.