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If you're leaving #Reddit over API extortion like I am, here's a way to burn your comment and post history so they can't profit off what you've contributed.

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a tool that allows you to find communities that you are interested in.

Link: https://browse.feddit.de/

You can search for a community (say, "solarpunk"). Then copy the link into your Lemmy search bar and subscribe to the community! It's posts will then show up on your subscribed feed automatically.

Alternatively, you can use a list of communities. I have created such a list:

Link: https://midwest.social/post/382481

I hope this has helped! Comment if you have any questions or want a recommendation.

Inspired by @admin@beehaw.org I started a chat community on this instance.

@main Hello! I grew up in the midwest before moving to Oregon and if federation works how I want it to, this post should show up in the main community on midwest dot social. I'm a nerd and trans catgirl (kinda goes hand in hand anyways). Feel free to reply with an introduction of your own!

I was asked to create a Michigan community and so I did!

Thank you, @JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social, for posting content here. I know it's pretty quiet, but I enjoy seeing your contributions!

@main Posting from Mastodon.

Saw on the change log titles should be fixed? Let's give it a shot.

@main Test post from Mastodon!

Testing the federation. Let's see if this works at all.

If you're not familiar with it, Folding@Home utilizes excess processing power in your computer to help solve protein folding calculations spread through a large network of people doing this.

Here is the URL for the team

The team ID I set up is 1064112. Extremely simple to set up and join and start making a difference in the world without having to do a single thing basically!

If you would like to have our team contribute to any specific cause, let me know so I can have our team defaulted to that. Happy folding!

Gaming - https://midwest.social/c/gaming

USA News/Politics - https://midwest.social/c/usa

Soccer - https://midwest.social/c/soccer

Not sure if this is how official Lemmy structure is supposed to be, but figured we could have dupe /c/ of these comms on our instance. They can x-post from other instances if needed but also can give a more specific insight into these topics that would tailor more to people in midwest.social.

Hope you are safe and warm and surrounded by friends and family.

With this server being geared towards people from the Midwest, we all realize how bitterly cold it has been this past day or two. Want to wish everyone a good weekend and also that everyone is safe and warm! Please keep in mind those who don't have warm shelter to stay in and try to help those less fortunate if possible.

The high CPU issue that is causing midwest.social to slow way down and timeout on HTTP requests is still a mystery to me. But, it seems to do it less often and for less time now.

Here is CPU usage over 24 hours:

It's a bunch of SELECT statements in Postgres that all seem to fire at one time and take a while to complete as a batch. I've inspected the logs and haven't seen anything unusual. Just stuff federating and posts receiving upvotes.

Upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 and the issue appears to be gone. I have been going crazy trying to figure out what was causing it.

Please bear with us as I troubleshoot this server. Lots of duplicate processes running for reasons I don't yet understand.

I just want to say hi and that I hope ppl use lemmy more.

Don't feel sorry for me.

But reddit is all I have and it's draining with all the toxicity.

I'm gunna try to post here more even though my 'content' is gay.

See you later

Organizing in Michigan, once a union stronghold, has symbolic significance. […] Votes for the other Michigan locations are expected to be collected in the first week of June.

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This bill would make it too difficult for medical providers to save a mother's life in the case of ectopic pregnancy or other health conditions. Having medical professionals involved in writing healthcare legislation should be required.