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I like watching (and making) funny shortform videos on TikTok and Instagram reels, and I'd like to move to the fediverse as much as possible. Glancing around at PeerTube, it seems designed to replicate traditional YouTube with longform content, not something I'm interested in. PixelFed looks like the old Instagram, intended exclusively for photography and not memes of any kind, let alone video. So where can I get a quick haha off without a billionaire stooge breathing down my neck? (And let me know if this is the wrong community to ask, I'll gladly repost elsewhere)

Edit: before anyone writes any lectures, I realize video content is exponentially more resource-intensive to host compared to text and images. To be clear, I'm not demanding my every entertainment need be met by the fediverse right now, just curious what's out there.

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I'm curious if other users are experiencing timeouts reaching midwest.social several times a day? I'm browsing through the summit and connect Android apps, for context. I'm unable to load anything (/all feed and posts) several times a day on this account so I just wanted to see if others are experiencing the same thing.

Edit: I hope my tone didn't come off as ungrateful, that was not my intent! I just wanted to sanity check if there was something wrong with my network or client(s). Thank you seahorse for your hard work!

Trying to upload an avatar, but I keep getting this error:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

That's the only thing that shows up in the console. Not sure what is expected.

Are we going to block Meta's Threads.net? I get it if people want to keep things open. However, Meta is a proven bad actor. They claim they didn't put in ActivityPub because it was too complicated to get it done at launch, and they can't get EU approval of their service because of the rampant and invasive data they gather. IMHO, they are going to attempt to muscle the fediverse out of the equation.

Transplant from middle TN.

I play music when I can but most of my time is spent taking care of my little girls full time.

Hopefully I'm doing this right. I'm pretty socially inept.

Hope you're all well!

hi midwesties, hope you are having a nice time. I am from sweden.

Original Ian and Anthony SMOSH sketches are the cure, they’re what we’ve all been missing WE SUMMONED A DEMON!

My main midwest.social stream is current full of ads for guns and gun parts. Did I do something wrong?

I noticed that /c/milwaukee doesn't appear in the community list when browsing through midwest.social directly, and when I manually go to https://midwest.social/c/milwaukee, no posts appear, even though /c/milwaukee shows up correctly on my home instance (pawb.social). Is it possible that this issue could be hiding other communities on this instance too?

Intro and Context

Midwest.social is my homebase, but I have two other accounts in different instances. Both accounts are in instances that are federated with this one.

I started a genre film community about a week ago. Yesterday, I logged in to my other instances to see what the community looks like from a non-moderator perspective. They all look different, depending on what instance I'm viewing the community from. Screenshots below:

Screenshots

This is the view of !driveinmovies@midwest.social from this instance. This is how I'd expect it to be seen by anyone that midwest.social is federated with. Is that not correct?

For context, all the comments in the stickied post are from individuals belonging to other instances with which midwest.social is federated. In fact, there are comments from lemmy.ml folks, and I think there's one from somebody in sopuli.xyz. That may be relevant because of what I see when I go to my lemmy.ml and sopuli.xyz accounts.

This is the view of !driveinmovies@midwest.social from my account on lemmy.ml. Only three posts show up. The comment counts and upvotes are different.

The one on top with zero upvotes was actually posted from the pictured lemmy.ml account. The middle post is supposedly a stickied post, except it's not stickied when accessed through lemmy.ml. Also, none of the comments appear. Not even my own test comment.

The "subscribe pending" business is new. Several days ago, it said "joined" over there. When I try unsubscribing and resubscribing, I keep getting the pending nonsense.

This is the view of !driveinmovies@midwest.social from my account on sopuli.xyz. All the posts show up, but the comment counts and upvotes are different.

The "subscribe pending" thing here is the same as it is with my lemmy.ml account. It wasn't there a couple days ago, but now it is. Turning it off and on again doesn't do anything.

Questions

Only one question, really. Is this as odd as it seems to me? Okay, two questions. Can someone explain why it looks different, based on which instance I'm accessing the community from?

Noticed my memory usage steadily increasing when I leave my Lemmy tab open after interacting with everything. I'm using Firefox on Win10.

There is a GitHub issue on it here. If you're even slightly tech savvy, keep an eye on your memory usage and see if you can reproduce it. So far it looks like a Firefox/Lemmy issue on both Windows and Linux. But keep and eye out even if you don't use Firefox.

If you do run across it, please report it in the link above.

Edit: Forgot to add, the workaround is to close your Lemmy tab in Firefox, and wait for the memory use to be cleaned up (~20 seconds), then you can re-open it.

TLDR: 3 people working together can gatekeep content on the "active" and "hot" feeds on smaller servers/communities.

After some playing around, I noticed posts disappear after reaching a threshold. A quick search later and I'm in the Lemmy docs reading about how this all works.

In plain English, any three people working together (or one person with three accounts) can stop posts from appearing on the default feed. Once a post reaches -2 it will only appear to people who browse "new." Edit: Of course, it reappears after it climbs above -2, but it's a race against the clock.

As a smaller server, we're vulnerable to this. But we also have some extra mitigations - namely, @seahorse@midwest.social has to approve everyone who joins, and that might weed out bad actors.

So what can you do? Upvote content liberally, downvote sparingly.

My personal tldr is that lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works have open registration and beehaw admins are have had enough dealing with a ton of troll accounts from these 2 instances. Is this a problem for Midwest.social? I'm subscribed to a couple of (non toxic I hope) communities.

If you type a comment, then change your mind and attempt to change pages. There's no prompt. So the UI just dies for no reason. Took me a minute to figure out what happened. Wound up refreshing the page.

So, I got curious and set my feed to all. Wow, there a lot of arguments about defederation due to the Beehaw decision. Many Many people positing on "the death of Reddit" and the refugee crisis. I get some of the concerns about moderation and ideology but the amount of navelgazing is unreal. Ill just stick to local for a bit until things settle down.

So, how are you finding the big, wide fediverse outside of our pleasant little pocket? With all of the thinkpieces being posted about how Lemmy is never going to work, I wanted to see some fresh takes from the good folk at midwest.social.

I want to setup a wiki as a new Lemmy user guide that lists the popular instances we federate with and their popular communities so people can easily find their interests and start posting. How can I do this on Lemmy so that other people can edit?

Ever lose something online? Want a nice bookmark you can't find again? Try asking at the lost and found.

I recently was scrolling through my All feed and noticed some NSFW content on lemmynsfw.com. It was blurred but I wasn't expecting it. What do you all think of this? Should we continue to federate with some NSFW instances? I'm personally OK with it as long as the content is blurred unless I click on it but wanted to get your opinions on it.

Edit: Completely forgot about the NSFW settings that everyone has. We'll continue federating with NSFW instances going forward.

The database fix that I did broke some pictures for users and communities. Just an FYI on why you might not be seeing some.

I've been trying to fix the CPU issues with the database for weeks now and I felt I had gotten close. I ran these migrations manually and the delete query deleted somewhere around 400k rows. Somehow that I've been monitoring the CPU for about an hour now and it seems to be behaving. It would spike when I upvoted anything and stay there a while. I don't want to jinx it but try out the site and let's see if it stays responsive.

My deepest apologies for the downtime and the irritating slowness of the instance since you all joined.

Hey, hopefully someone can help me out. I created midwest.social/c/wrestling, and that link was working for people last night. As of today it's broken, but if you use midwest.social/c/wrestling@midwest.social it works fine, and the link has changed to @midwest.social for me in my subscriptions as well, but not with other communities in the server. Any idea with what's going on?

That is all. I hope I did the thing correctly :-)

Back when I started this site around 2020 it was pretty much just me here. Most of the time the new user applications were from ultra lazy spammers peddling penis pills. I realized that all of you have been writing introductions but you don't know much about me so here is somewhat of an introduction.

I'm just a regular guy in the Cleveland, Ohio area who works in tech. I have 3 cats. My hobbies are tech stuff, shooting/guns, gardening, lifting, and to a smaller degree talking about leftist politics. I run this instance as well as I can on my own. Sometimes the site will go down or be slow but you can rest assured that I'm most likely aware of it when that happens. I monitor this site pretty closely.

It definitely feels weird (in a good but anxiety inducing way) to see so many people using the server I set up. Before the influx it didn't matter if the site was down for an hour or two while I worked out a deployment issue but that's not the case anymore. I would like to bring more sys admins on board eventually so if you're interested feel free to reach out.

Glad you're all here!

I've been pretty intrigued by regional communities in the fediverse era, since knowing your users' likely location allows you run your server nearby to maximize performance.

Having just learned about midwest.social, that got me curious -- what region is the server running in?