I’ve been running notado.app primarily for myself for the last 3 years. Like a lot of you, I am moving over to Lemmy from Reddit, and like a lot of you, I learned so much from the comments I read over years and years on Reddit. I must have hundreds of saved comments from Reddit in my Notado account at this point....
User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca....
Why YSK: Getting along in a new social environment is easier if you understand the role you’ve been invited into....
Repost because original post got deleted due to missing YSK in the title. You should know why so so much software you use is so awful, and this article (partly) explains it.
Why YSK: Because you deserve to have peace of mind. Your privacy can mean your safety. I found out about this today, and in this comment I mentioned it and said I would make something more detailed....
Why YSK: If you’re familiar with the topic of awesome lists on GitHub, then you should know that there is a community driven list just for Lemmy, including a convenient aggregation of links to instances, alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc.
Why YSK: If you want to make Lemmy a more accessible place for all, you need to know how to add labels (aka: “alt text”) to embedded images...
Introducing “Lonely,” a compassionate community dedicated to providing support and positivity for individuals experiencing loneliness...
An article about how programmers tend to focus too much on aspects of software that are unimportant in the real world, leaving basic functionality deficient. It is aimed mostly at programmers, but if you’re not one, it can still possibly help understand why the software yuo use is so often unpleasant. The current timeouts with...
Why YSK: This bot is constantly reposting reddit content to its own lemmy instance, lemmit.online. Most of it goes completely unnoticed and produces no discussion. If you like using All to find new communities, and sort by New, all you’ll see is this bot. Its highest upvoted post has 40 upvotes and 0 comments, and it has over...
Also, if this selected, it will hide any posts you make. I have been saving the posts I make as a favorite until Lemmy fixes this.
Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts....
For all scientists in the lemmyverse, I want you to know there is a lemmy instance dedicated to nature and science: mander.xyz.
Signing up...
Invidious: an alternative front-end that is open-source and privacy-respecting. Here are a list of open instances. If you are reasonably familiar with docker/self-hosting you can also host it yourself, but be aware it's somewhat resource- and maintenance-heavy....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/853004...
The Online News Act passed last Thursday and would force platforms like Google and Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, to strike deals with Canadian media publishers for sharing, previewing and directing users to online Canadian news content.
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
For example, you can see this breakdown for Lemmy.world by going to https://lemmy.world/instances
Apollo can’t afford Reddit’s fees and will be subject to auto-refund for shutting down, so users can help by declining the refund.
YSK because text-based communication demands clarity, and this mistake can be confusing for both native English speakers and English learners alike....
cross-posted from: sullen.social/post/105...
Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit's mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow's failure to address it's promises and provide moderation tools
Why YSK: it doesn't matter how original you might think you are, they have heard them before. Numerous times in fact. If you're in the habit of making name-based jokes as soon as you meet someone you should stop. At best you're mildly annoying the person, at worst you're preventing what could have been a great friendship before...
