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[OPINION] Gnome Online Accounts (Google)

I couldn’t agree more. I appreciate how easy it is to set up Nextcloud integration in Online Accounts as well. I think many people lose sight of the fact that while Gnome may be lacking certain features, or “isn’t customizable”, it is very approachable for the non technical person.

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Expressing concerns about moderation policy on lemmy.ml

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it’s less a matter of disagreeing (people disagree all the time) and more a matter of knowing what to expect.

I think this is really what it boils down to. It’s not that the lemmy.ml admins should be forced to moderate in a way that they don’t agree with. Rather, users, especially new users, should be aware of the rules surrounding their moderation policies.

Lemmy.ml is the most likely starting place for new users. The critique by pineapple serves as a PSA to new members that they need to be aware that in a federated system each instance has its own rules and moderation policies. Users information to make informed decisions about the instances and communities that they want to partake in.

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How the beehaw defederation affects us

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Why would anyone stay on an instance that can’t interact with a huge chunk of the fediverse? Only the most passionate beehaw-ers will stay there. Most will likely leave to more accessible pastures.

Maybe this is the point. They’ve taken this extreme action to drive their non core users into other instances. This leaves only the users that want to be part of their more isolated instance, which seems to be their goal. Low volume, high quality discussions within their own community.

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Posts/communitees not visible?

I’ve been successfully posting in communities at lemmy.ml from lemmy.sdf.org, so I’m not sure what might be happening there. I was able to find Midwest.social/c/chicago from the sdf instance search. The URL should work, but you are also able to use the format ![email protected] (![email protected]). The search does take a long time to fetch the results from an external instance, and there is no loading animation, so after a minute or two the results will change from “no results found” to displaying the community.

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is there a fediverse imgur?

I think some sort of p2p solution would be really cool. You could basically allocate a certain amount of storage on your server and images would be stored and grabbed by peers as needed. Something like BitTorrent where multiple peers have the same content to reduce load. Not sure if it already exists or is even practically possible.

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What is your boomer opinion

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A recent job change caused me to revert back to my old G-Shock watch instead of my Apple Watch. I was setting the time and date and noted that the date “only” goes up to the year 2039. Even though it is already over 20 years old, I fully expect this watch to work well past 2039; I have no expectation that the Apple Watch will. Even if it technically functioned, the software and protocols would have been long abandoned.

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How do we deal with similar communities on different Lemmy instances?

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The way I see it community is just that, a community. It is not a place where people gather, but instead it is a collection of people. You are not limited to meeting your friends in a particular place, you can meet them in a variety of different places, but still be a part of the community. There may be multiple /c/askhistorians, so sub them all and you will be a part of the community in them all. I hope that makes sense.