LedgeDrop

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[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't tried it, but I did see fly-lemmy which used fly.io.

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Eh, don't be so sure.

Email is often drawn as something similar to the fediverse. ... but if you've ever tried to run a small Mailserver, you'll quickly find that "the big corps" have created a walled garden that'll keep the "small fish" out.

It's all based on what the big players view as your "reputation". This is based on proprietary metrics (usually how many emails you send), but your reputation will determine if the email is delivered or not.

You can find more information here.

... but the point is that one big corps consolidate and reach the size (in terms of traffic/content) like Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo, etc - they will not hesitate to squeeze out the smaller fediverse fish to force them into paying to use the bigger pond.

Sadly ... this is just business as usual.

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was also using jerboa (and beehaw hasn't upgraded, either).

I ended up exploring other apps and are really liking thunder (it reminds me of baconreader).

Another honorable mention is liftoff.

Tbh, I don't know why jerboa was released as "stable" but with a forced server upgrade. It seems a bit strong armed. Anyway, I'm thrilled that other applications exist, so I get the continued functionality I want w/o needing the admins to accommodate me.

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I hope this (eventually) works with Skyrim VR!

 

I stumbled upon this and I immediately thought of this channel.

Someone is running a bot that'll scrape a website-that-shall-not-be-named. It'll only mirror threads (not comments) and the author / community seem very passionate to subvert any api limits that the scraped company may impose.

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

This appears now be "sold out"

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yup, that's me. I'm trying to make lemmy my new home and limit my access to Reddit (vote with your feet). I still check Reddit for the polls and a few nitch communities that don't exist on Lemmy (yet)

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh now that you mention it, a sharable link would be a must. This would promote curated "Awesome..." repos/links.

It would be ideal if it were part of the fediverse naming convention. For example "/m/multi-subreddit-name/c/group1@domain1/c/group2@domain2/..."

It would allow full transparency, the ability to update / change it... places could even provide URL shorteners for it.

Edit 2: formatting (come'on Lemmy don't let me down)

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, is that how Lemmy really works? Beehaw disables the downvote, but since I federated through it - I cannot downvote anywhere in the fediverse.

I wonder if this means that people from outside of Beehaw can downvote threads posted in Beehaw (anyone is welcome to downvote my Beehaw responses - in the name of science, mind you :)

I'm really going to have to think about hosting my own Lemmy server. It sounds like whoever's site you register through has quiet a bit of control (especially outside of their respective site).

You mentioned that you're hosting your own Lemmy server. Have you had any issues accessing or being accessed by others in the fediverse?

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

One feature suggestion for Lemmy someone made: Create something like a multi-subreddit with Lemmy groups .

I love the idea. Basically, you could toss all the fragemented tech topics into a single multi-subreddit, giving you the ability to browse through a single topic but spanning different Lemmy installations.

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the article, but can we talk about the eye-cancer that MSN has de-evolved into?

I click on the link, see the first 3 lines of the article (that I cannot actually click on to read the rest) followed up with an infinite wall of ads and "other articles you may enjoy".

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another random thought: Can we increase the title limit (200 characters)?

I'd posted a "low effort" (bundle) [https://beehaw.org/post/577245], but needed to cut some content in the title due to the 200 character limit.

 

($25 for The Walking Dead Saints & Sinners 2 and Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu, $18 for The Walking Dead Saints & Sinners, Pistol Whip, Green Hell VR, $12 for Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Maskmaker)

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow, I noticed the prices in different currencies. Fantastic work!

I've got one question: since the community is rather small, would it be possible to enable the downvote button? I'm not certain if this is a site-wide setting or not.

This would allow us to weigh "good deals" vs "okay deals" vs "shovelware"... which means more relevant deals will rise to the top and would probably attract more people (creating a positive feedback loop)

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