BuckRowdy 12 months ago • 75%
I got a reply to a 9.5 year old comment two days ago...
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 73%
This is why he'll win. Because Republicans live in an echo chamber where they think Biden is incompetent. If you look at the record he's the best president since FDR.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Whatever Christie is doing, it's aimed for after the election. I think he's simply raising his profile for either a talking head spot on a network or a leadership role in the party post-Trump. I think he seriously underestimates the degree to which the party has shifted hard right, though.
Whatever ends up happening, it is going to be wildly entertaining seeing Christie trash Trump at the debates. I think he'll ridicule Trump for not even having the guts to be present for the debates, and that may trigger Trump to start participating.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I don't think they'll delete this. This is their future.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 66%
Yes it was interesting finding communities banned from Reddit who seemed like they had been here awhile.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I have a silly need to buy tech for no reason
Me too, I have three of them now plus an old chromebook that I rooted and installed linux on when the price of a PI was skyhigh during the pandemic. The chromebook set me back $40. Installing PeppermintOS on it was pretty easy.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Interesting, I'll check that out. RES used to have something similar to keep you synced across computers.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
That looks to be exactly what I need, thank you.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I can't find it now. The number that I saw was 1.09 million, but I can't find the site I saw it on now. I think a bunch of them must be purged spam accounts maybe.
I decided to set up my own instance to give me more control over my lemmy experience. But I had already subscribed to lots of communities on several other instances. What is the quickest and easiest way to transfer all those subscriptions over so that I can view them in my own instance?
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I don't think people really understand that reddit is an 18 year old product. Their original site was iterated on for 10 years before they stopped building on it.
Lemmy will get there and beyond. As the fediverse attracts more users, it will also attract more contributors. I'm starting to learn Rust myself in hopes I can contribute to the project at some point down the line.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Please for anyone reading, just be patient. Keep posting and commenting and it WILL grow. There are only like 1.2 million Lemmy users versus hundreds of millions of redditors.
If you follow the 90-9-1 rule, that leaves very few actual contributors and still Lemmy has a lot of good content daily. Just be patient and it will come.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I’ve bought two on eBay in the last year. Got the last one for around $135 and it was a kit.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 16%
No way Im running linux on a Mac. That’s what a raspberry pi is for.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Totally agree. Each sub top mod should submit one good post per day at a minimum.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
What Lemmy needs now more than anything is commenters. If the site is to succeed, it needs robust comment sections.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 63%
I don't generally block anyone on social media. I don't want to block racists and then not be able to report their racism.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I remember back when you could only download one song at a time from there. But you’re right. There is an insane amount of good music there.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 33%
I was trying to but the instance was down.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 66%
Yes, I'm sure.
Just saw a post on reddit alternatives and there was a comment inviting users to laguna.chat. I went and checked it out and the trending communities list included, 'jews did 911', 'killni***rs', 'hitler was right', and 'Fuck Ni***rs'. One of the user accounts was u/HangNi***rs. Hey Laguna Chat, get your shit together. Edit: markdown defeated me again. I think you can figure out what those words are.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 71%
just admit you were wrong. It's ok.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Dang you're here too? Did you leave reddit?
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I'm trying. It's hard when they keep falling face-first into the pavement on a weekly basis.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I'm still in the transition phase. I was pretty intertwined with the site so it takes a little time to unwind all of that.
In the old days, official reddit announcement posts were a little different. Spuds, or another high-level admin would reply to a comment. Dozens of users would then reply with something like "When are you going to ban r/the_donald." The threads were massive and quickly became unwieldy, but they seemed organic. Once reddit started hiring admins who don't seem to really know what reddit is, I started to notice a new trend. By now it's moved on from a trend to a template or better yet, an archetype. Here is the archetypal pattern to an official Reddit announcement post in 2023: 1. Reddit makes an announcement that is downvoted below 20%. 2. The individual admin making the announcement (sometimes) litters the post with cringe gifs and meme-speak in a ham-fisted attempt to break the ice. 3. This admin will only be authorized to speak on the topic of the post but will be asked about a range of items. 4. The admin will answer 4-8 questions, mostly praise or comments with a neutral or positive tone. 5. The admin replies will mostly be downvoted well into the double digits. 6. After answering a few questions, often without ever replying to any follow-up questions, the admin vanishes as the thread is overwhelmed with criticism and ridicule. In a short time, reddit will announce a new contributor program that will use some kind of crypto currency to allow users to pay other users for content. If recent patterns hold, and we all know they will, there will be aspects of this program that are surfaced in the comments of the announcement. These aspects will be alarming or concerning in some way and will highlight ways in which bad actors could exploit the feature. It will be clear that reddit had not considered these items raised by users and did not adequately interact with their userbase prior to the feature announcement to ensure the smoothest possible launch. Reddit management doesn't seem to fuly understand that the freedom they grant their mods to build and manage their communities -- which is the entire reason that users come to the site so that they can be marketed to -- creates a much higher bar for communication and interaction around site architecture and feature changes with those mods / users. The pattern has been repeating for years: new features are rolled out half-baked, are not highly adopted. Admins are disincentivized to iterate on these features because of the low adoption rates. The feature is then abandoned or deprecated. The last announcement post on r/modnews by the VP of community was the worst example since 2015 when Victoria was fired. Reddit, inc has done nothing to mitigate the anger, they haven't even apologized, without which no healing could ever happen. And the next announcement post will be no different... Standby.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Rogan should be deplatformed. We don't have a robust enough education system for 'free speech' to work when people like Rogan are just lying to people.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Society will never progress while Fox News is allowed to remain on the air. Fox News creates digital walls to segregate the audience from reality.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 0%
Throw coins and awards on the pile.
I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help. Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough? Edit: I didn't expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you... I can't reply to everyone. I'm an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I'm really sad too, but I'm finding that lemmy has most of the content I'm looking for, just needs more comments. The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
This got me working, but, for anyone who comes across this, the file to edit is lemmy.yml, and you drop in ghcr.io/ubergeek77
for dessalines
. The only hurdle once I did that was installing docker-compose on the pi. Unfortunately you can't just install docker-compose with pip3 install docker-compose. Follow these instructions to install docker-compose. https://dev.to/elalemanyo/how-to-install-docker-and-docker-compose-on-raspberry-pi-1mo
Then just run the ansible playbook.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I was able to install lemmy just now on the rpi. I used ubergeek77's stuff.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 46%
Reddit has given us plenty of legitimate reasons. It's disappointing seeing people fall for conspiracy theories. Reddit doesn't care that you've deleted your comments. It really reveals something I think, and that is a self centered-ness that people have that reddit would find their comments so valuable that they would create a mechanism to restore them after deletion. People who propagate this conspiracy theory reveal more about themselves than anything else.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 95%
You want to know a secret? Religious people are the worst people on earth.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 90%
Republicans change the rules if they ever see that they’ll hurt them in the future.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 50%
It appears Mlem doesn’t allow you to edit comments. Weird.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 32%
And predictably the only guy in the thread who understands how Reddit's listings work was downvoted. I guess some things never change.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 76%
This is more a function of how Reddit’s databases and listings work. Automated tools can’t find all of your content because of the limitations on listings. It’s really funny though that people are ascribing abilities to a company with a very low competency level.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
Wow, okay let me try that. I wish you had been around earlier! Thank you so much.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I saw it but I don't know how to use it.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 95%
What they want is freedom to control reality. What Republicans say, every day is not real, they don't live in reality. What they want is not free speech, they have that more than ever. What they want is to dictate reality to the rest of us.
All conservative are bad, acab as it were.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
I'm going to see if I can get it working on ubuntu 22 first.
BuckRowdy 1 year ago • 100%
That was a problem that I had at one point and then I then reflashed the 64-bit Raspnberry Pi OS (no longer called raspnbian which I didn't know). When I run uname -a I get aarch64...
The specific error I'm getting is this:
FAILED! => {"changed": false, "errors": [], "module_stderr": "", "module_stdout": "0.18.2: Pulling from dessalines/lemmy\n", "msg": "Error: pull failed with no matching manifest for linux/arm64/v8 in the manifest list entries"}
It's been a rough day. First I tried the lemmy-easy-deploy script because, hey, I'm lazy. That failed, so I then tried the ansible playbook and had some success with it. At first, Let's Encrypt was not working, and I had to sort out my dynamic dns provider. Once that was sorted the playbook was running well, encryption was working properly, then I got an error that the docker didn't support arm v7 architecture. I then updated to Bullseye, Raspbian 11 and got a similar error that docker didn't support arm v8 architecture. So what os do I need to be running on this pi to install an instance on it?
The browser tab is blank, and unless I'm doing something wrong there is no Favicon set for Lemmy.World. I would hazard a guess that most of us have lots and lots of tabs open at any given time. Would it be possible to add an icon to help make it easier to locate lemmy.world tabs?
I'm new to lemmy, only been here a few days, but I have already ported over one of my reddit bots to Lemmy and it was really easy, like orders of magnitude easier than it was to get my first reddit bot working. There are lots of wrappers available and I am researching everything to figure out how best to proceed with a more serious bot. Most of my scripts for reddit were moderation tools. Lemmy doesn't seem large enough to need a lot of moderation yet, but I still want to get to work creating things because it's fun. I'm finding documentation scarce in some cases so I just wanted to pose a question here. On reddit, if I want to look at posts (or comments, reports, modqueue, and so on) I iterate through a listing and then narrow my search based on what type of post I need. Does Lemmy use listings, or how do you process posts/comments in the same fashion as you'd do over there? I haven't had to take any mod actions yet because I don't have any reports, so I haven't really explored any of the mod actions via the api.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1661747 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1660712 > > > The hits just keep coming.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1660712 > The hits just keep coming.
The hits just keep coming.
Like many of you I'm here because I'm done with reddit. I'm just getting started here and I found a front end for Lemmy that provides the old reddit interface. I like the lemmy.world interface just fine, but old habits are hard to break. I think using Lemmy with this front end will help me spend more time here because of the familiarity. if you have friends that are having a hard time transitioning over, maybe recommend http://mlmym.org to them.