

- Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
- Default UI is not Lemmy UI
- PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)
I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.
Ask me anything.
Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks




Quite reliably, yeah. The only limitation is I can’t root my current device, so the mapped keys can only work when the screen is on. But the volume keys will wake the screen up, so I just hit it once normally then hold to mute or change tracks or whatever.


You can do that with KeyMapper, and I have a lot of custom actions set up with it.
https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.sds100.keymapper/
I have double-press volume down set to toggle mute, though, since I’m already using long press of vol up and down to do next/prev track for my music player.
Regardless, I cannot recommend KeyMapper enough. It’s pretty fantastic.


509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.
Nope. I’ve had ^Reddit as one of my regex community filters for some time now.


Heh, thanks. My main view is that there are lots and lots and lots of views that exist between the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum, and apparently that’s a controversial opinion here. 🙄


An optional field was added to the userdb to allow storing birthdate. That’s it.
The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of California, Colorado, and Brazil.
This is the same record that already holds basic user metadata like realName, emailAddress, and location. The field stores a full date in YYYY-MM-DD format and can only be set by administrators, not by users themselves.
An optional field in the userdb JSON object. It’s not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it’s standardized iff [sic] people want to store the date there, but it’s entirely optional.
–Lennart Poettering


I closed it up and made it a private development instance last year, but you basically just described Dubvee.
Far left crazies and far right crazies are removed with equal prejudice, though the far right is much rarer (and often just trolls). Regardless, it’s moderated here to a, well, moderate temperature. We also don’t federate with the Triad (Hexbear, Grad, and .ml) as well as a few other instances (one of them a big instance that throws an error on a calculator) that are centered around and encourage identity politics (another source of what you’re describing in your post).
Even though we’re “closed” I still keep the instance running in order to develop the Tesseract UI, and if you want to try out the kind of space that’s curated here, I would be willing to approve your application. I’ve toyed with the idea of re-launching and seeking out another admin or 3, but haven’t had the time to put much thought into it.
TL;DR is I’ve always tried to run Dubvee as “normie friendly” and cut out some of the more, uh, rabid parts of the fediverse, and if you want to try it out, I’d be willing to allow it.


Technically speaking, I invented vaping.
In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you’d normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).
My group’s product was a weight-loss product called “FlavorAir” (“Anorexia Fast” didn’t test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.
This was in the early 00’s and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.


RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.


Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I’ve happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.
I honestly think that’s my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.


I haven’t had time to build out or promote the community, so there’s only one post right now, but this would be perfect for [email protected] if you had a side-by-side image.


This is why I would die: Under no circumstances would I abandon my dogs. They are literally little furry family members.
And I’m not exaggerating. I’ve hunkered down during tornadoes, blizzards with no power/heat, and other weather events where I should have sought shelter elsewhere (most don’t accept pets, and I couldn’t make it to the nearest friends house to crash there).


You can also POST AS A GUEST TO THE FEDIVERSE without signing up.
Oh, dear lord. As if we don’t have enough spam and drive-by trolls as it is.


Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.
Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.
I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.


I mean, if you’re not shitting your guts out after drinking a glass of tap water, then it’s clean enough.
Pure water tastes like…nothing. The minerals and such give it the good, crisp taste.
That said, my water is so hard it has comparable calcium to a glass of milk.
That’s basically me. Wake me when it’s time to:


Added :) I also disabled the “Create Post” button if the community is on a defederated instance even though, technically, you can still post to your instance’s local copy (it just won’t federate).
Edit: This only works one way. i.e. it can only know if your instance is defederated from the community’s. If the community’s instance is defederated from yours, there will be no indicator because there’s no way to do it without a remote lookup which is both unreliable and inefficient at scale.



You mean like if there’s a community called !cats@example.com and your home instance no longer federates with the instance example.com?
If so, I’ll add that to Tesseract as it sounds useful.
It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.
The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.