Did you clean it like this guy cleaned a junk Gameboy Color? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmGMi0IEx4

Sort-of-not-really for Lemmy. Posts you make show up in the Fediverse with a hashtag set to the community name, e.g. my posts in !loops@midwest.social show up on Mastodon under the #loops hashtag. You can’t really follow or interact with hashtags from Lemmy, though 1.0 is bringing some ability to tag things, so maybe it’ll start working better? You can also somehow post from Mastodon using tags so that it shows up in a Lemmy community, but I don’t see people using that too often.

The userbase is small enough that hashing would be easy cracked by a determined person. Even with salting, iterating through the entire userbase and hashing each username+salt to check for a match would probably not take long

It’s too broad of a question. The right to be forgotten in the sense of “Google can’t data-mine the shit out of you and track your poop schedule”, yes. In the sense of “Musk wants to delete videos of him doing a Nazi salute because he’s facing the consequences for being a piece of shit”, no. A better term might be a “right to privacy”, which gets less applicable as you become more of a public figure or affect the public at large.

Over on the linked page? They’ve got custom “emojis”, which are just pictures uploaded by an admin. Lemmy has that feature in general, but it’s not used much on other instances. If it’s enabled on your instance, you can type : to select from all regular emojis plus custom ones.

Tumblr doesn’t really strike me as leftist, so much as having a low signal:noise ratio

DNS is neoliberalism incarnate 😂

DNS is the most neoliberal shit system that too many have just accepted as how computers work and always worked to the point where I have heard actual landlord arguments deployed to defend it

There was also something recently about potash that I never looked into but was wondering what it’s all about

Might be worth posting over in !AskUSA@discuss.online as well. I unfortunately don’t have any advice myself

Good callout. I’m actually admin on this instance so it wouldn’t apply to me by my reading of the code. Lemmy schedule also doesn’t currently use the scheduled posts Lemmy feature, it tracks it separately. Still good to know though, thanks.

Excited to see the idempotency feature. That will help a lot with double posts from using https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule

Thanks, I appreciate hearing it!

I think there has to be some level of curation. I set up a queue to post loops to !loops@midwest.social, but I didn’t just write a script that posts everything. I use Loops myself and add things I think are interesting to the queue to be posted. It’s a lot of manual work, but I’m happy to do it for now to help grow the Fediverse, and I enjoy watching the loops anyways.

You could accomplish this with more automatic curation, such as automatically reposting stuff that’s highly upvoted or has some other signal that it’s interesting. I didn’t do that for Loops because there’s a lot of stuff that’s highly-upvoted and is just stuff scraped from TikTok and I don’t care for those. I would probably use this approach if I didn’t want to wade through myself to find signal.

Seems to be working fine for me

It wouldn’t surprise me at all. Pixelfed got mainstream notice, and there’s always someone willing to give you money. Pretty much every popular Firefox/Chrome addon developer gets emails about buying it, but those are usually just shady companies looking to push malware onto the existing install base.

Even apart from those, it wouldn’t really surprise me to see some VC interest when Pixelfed hit #1 on the play store. They love the idea of glomming onto something that looks like a rocket and trying to ride it to the moon

Looks like skeleton code to me? I don’t see how that could be what the site/app are running on

It does technically federate a little, @dansup@loops.video exists. Not real federation, but I enjoy being technically correct 🤓 I do wish dansup open sourced it already so people could get a better picture of what’s going on with it, but he did say he’s actively working on federation this weekend.

It does allow third party apps like Loopy, where are you seeing that it doesn’t?

These are two similar sites:

https://fedidb.org/

https://fediverse.observer/stats

Some thoughts from this Loops user on why the Fediverse matters. I’ve seen some people push back on the idea of “It’s like email, but for X”, but that way of explaining it really makes sense to me.

I agree with the thesis that centralization is bad. Centralization breeds concentration of power, and power corrupts, or something like that

Tags are coming soon, which I think would be equivalent:

https://lemmy.ml/post/24645977