Amazingggg, never thought of the YouTube use case, I’m gonna try it myself. I’ve been using NewPipe and Libretube, but they just don’t cut it for me hahaha.

Yep, the UI can be a bit tricky. If I swipe a few times it usually figures out that I’m trying to refresh, and does so.

My thoughts exactly! I plan to use Native Alpha mostly to give the devs ample time to improve Jerboa, and will eventually jump ship (I think)

On mobile website, just click the hamburger menu from the top right and click “Create Community”!

Oh nice, I’ll try this too!

I think you’re right in that the structure is confusing. Personally, I think it’s less confusing than it is “novel”. Like in a world where the fediverse was the norm, centralised apps would’ve been confusing.

Either which way, I think you’re correct – part of it is because we don’t really have a good analogy for how this whole thing works.

This is how I see it: Lemmy is like a house party hosted in a huge venue that has hundreds of doors (i.e. instances). The doors have some slight differences (maybe some are huge, some are tiny, some have bouncers, some let you bring your own costumes etc). But for the most part, it doesn’t really matter what door you enter the party through, as all doors open into the same common space.

However, the door you choose does make you physically closer to one cluster of people than the rest of the party. That’s how I see the “local” filter. But if you’re just interested in getting into the party asap, just pick any instance and join.

This still isn’t a perfect analogy though – if a door shuts down, you don’t magically disappear from the party. But if an instance goes down, you do. Still, for the uninitiated, I feel like this is a sensible enough analogy.

I think I’m going to stick to Lemmy and use Reddit only to promote Lemmy. I’ve been created a few new communities here and will plug them to Reddit users.

Hey! You can also post this to !beatles@sopuli.xyz if you fancy :)

Beatles

Could you share any particular points that made you switch? I’m currently on Manjaro and I was thinking of switching to Fedora. But now I’ve started hearing good things about Debian…not sure how to proceed!

Yep! The main caveats are:

• You can only create a community on the instance you’re signed up on
• Some instances (e.g. Beehaw) don’t allow community creation

But in general, most instances do allow it. One possible workaround if you’re “stuck” on Beehaw might be to sign up on another instance, create your community, and then make your Beehaw account a mod on it. This way you don’t have to ditch you Beehaw account if you’re keen on creating communities.

Alternatively, if you’re still quite new here, maybe creating an account on another instance might not be a huge loss to you just yet.

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Cheers! Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Better to have an empty community (for now) than none at all.

This is a common misconception, but fully understandable one. If you look into political theory, one of the first things you discover is that all governments – whether they call themselves “democratic” or not – are, before anything else, at war with the people they claim to represent.

The “people” – not rival foreign states – are the first group against which a state of at war with, whether the state in question is a monarchy, a republic, a dictatorship, a plutocracy or something else.

Oh interesting! Last I checked Njalla was Bitcoin/Ethereum only but glad they accept XMR now. I run a 1984 VPS so can confirm that they accept XMR. I prefer them as they’re cheaper than Njalla (only a little bit still)

Great. I don’t know enough to use either but I think I’m going to try lean on podman from the get go. In any case, I know that all podman commands are exactly identical to Docker, such that you can replace, say, docker compose with podman compose and move on with ease.

Do you think Podman is ready to take over Docker? My understanding is that Podman is Docker without the root requirement.

Hey, I’d strongly recommend using njal.la or 1984.is to get a VPS and run your own instance from it. Both services are organisationally designed to fend off DMCA and other takedown notices. Like literally, the Njalla creator has a whole page where he mockingly replies to such requests.

Njalla is based in Sweden, 1984 in Iceland. Both accept anonymous crypto payments, but only 1984 accepts Monero.

More generally, I’d recommend these two services to anyone interested in running an instance catered to “risky” topics like piracy.

I’d say just go post in English there, if you’re not supposed to, someone will probs drop you a ping.

I also sense that people here are keen on having multilingual communities, so English posts may even be welcome. Either way, it’s the wild west here, so just go for it.

The basic mistake I see us all make is assume that Spez has any emotional attachment to Reddit (let alone anything close to how attached we are to it). He doesn’t.

Once you realize that he’s 100% in it for the money and is utterly uncaring about Reddit’s users (i.e. you), you’ll realize that he couldn’t give less of a shit about actually addressing our concerns.

This will also make you immune to any PR sanitising lies him and his team spout, as all such lies hinge on your willingness to give him some benefit of the doubt. We shouldn’t.

Hey! You should totally create those communities by yourself, takes less than 5 seconds!! (Via the website though – sadly the apps don’t yet have that functionality…but will soon)

For example, I created beatles@sopuli.xyz, since there’s no Beatles community here. Never modded any subreddit in my life, so it’s a first for me.

I’m soon gonna make a list of maybe 8-10 communities I like and create them over here. Then I’ll post links to them on the corresponding subreddits.

I don’t plan to actually mod them actively, so I’ll pass the modding powers to others if/when the communities get a good number of followers.

You could do the same, it’s like being Johnny Appleseed!