Holy fuckles, knuckles. Why did it blow it up like that?

I guess there’s two perspectives you could look at it from here.

1. The one you already mentioned
2. By creating a community here, you would be able to get more concise self-hosting-related help with issues that people in our neck of the woods encounter. What that might entail I’m not entirely sure, but all I know is that certain communities, both on and off the fediverse, have differing levels of patience and know-how (I’m looking at you, Arch Linux Forums…) about mutual topics.

Apologies for the run-on sentence.

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If I knew anything about Matrix, let alone Matrix sysadmin work, I would totally help. That’s why I’m on bark.lgbt’s Matrix server instead lol

Shit… guess that’s how it works.

God, if I had the time, willpower and trusted person to do it with, I would absolutely play around with it. Sadly, I don’t.

Fuck morals, fuck purity. Live once in a while, you know?

The way Lobe describes the deathclaw made the creature even more attractive to me… what the fuck?

I can only get so hard lmao

And enable 2FA if you can. Sure, it’s annoying to have to dig out your phone (or browser extension, desktop app, etc.) for a code, but it’s better than having your account taken over.

While it may be a little demoralizing to see a downvote on something you care about, 'tis a part of life. When I see something I posted get downvoted, my first instinct isn’t to assume it’s people being malicious. I take it as an oppurtunity to look at the post and ask myself “what is it about this post that people don’t like?”.

I noticed another person brought up the YouTube Dislike removal thing, and I’d like to add that programmers were rightfully upset to the point of creating a third-party API and browser plugin just to bring it back. That was more in response to the rampant amount of misinformation and scam videos on the platform, but I think it has some resonance here as well. I don’t think taking away a feedback mechanism, regardless of it’s potential for abuse/harassment, is a good idea.

If I may, I’d like to bring in another comparison- E621. Say what you may about E6, but the up/downvote system there works well because some posts just aren’t good. Sure, it may have passed the janitors, but the post itself and/or it’s contents may be objectionable. With E621, you can hide posts that pass a certain score threshold. This is a good way filter out some of the more… questionable things for a lot of users on top of the existing blocklist system they have in place. Some people may try to game the score system to artificially boost or dump a posts’s score, but the admins/moderators are pretty good at nipping that in bud, so to speak.

Finally, I’d like to bring in the (#)fediblock argument. Even if an instance blocks another, it doesn’t stop the offending instance from replying/reacting to posts that it may have discovered through a relay or another instance. All it does is stop the defending instance from seeing the reply/reaction. Disabling downvotes is the same thing. You can just hop to another instance and see if your post was downvoted.

For now, until the lemmyverse becomes a bit more stable, I don’t think messing with any core functionality is a good idea. It is definitely something worth revisiting again at some point. Who knows? Maybe the developers are working on something to address these concerns.

Cinnamon on Manjaro.

Yes, I know using Manjaro is cheating, but I could not be arsed to set up a DE by hand for the upteenth time. Manjaro Cinnamon ISO go *brrrrrrrr*

The fuck he is… both of them are irrelevant chuds.

Is there any sort of advantage to getting it from the F-Droid repo as opposed to IzzyOnDroid? I have it from IOD and haven’t encountered any sort of issues.

I don’t really know much about how Lemmy works under-the-hood, but from my previous experience with running Akkoma and Mastodon instances, you can have your instance subscribe to a relay to have messages from other instances pushed to yours. They’re only really useful for smaller (<1,000 users) instances.

In this context, since I don’t know if Lemmy instances can be subscribed to a relay (I don’t see why not since it is ActivityPub under-the-hood after all), I’m not entire sure.

My god… I’m a furry, and even this is too much for me.

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