cole

cole, 9 months ago

we talking about gas or electric? The Internet goes out and you suddenly can’t turn off the gas…

cole, 9 months ago

I liked it as a general place. Pretty much all smart home stuff works with home assistant so it was nice seeing everyone’s ideas and devices regardless of platform.

cole, 9 months ago

I’m gonna go against the grain and say this is awesome and I’m excited for it. I love talking to other people about less-popular songs. I think it could really add a cool social aspect

cole, 9 months ago

phones have really gotten boring lol

cole, 10 months ago

too bad I can’t use that app since it’s invite only

cole, 10 months ago

at least you can disable it

cole, 10 months ago

This did indeed happen. The mods of the LW Android community decided to migrate and merge with the !android community. Most people were fine with it, but several very vocal people were not. There was much vitriol. In the end, the admins re-opened the original LW android community with new mods.

I’m not really sure this is such a bad thing. The two can co-exist. I think most of the anger of the few vocal people came from disliking the Reddit r/Android mods. It does frustratingly split some participation though.

Disclaimer: I am the founding admin of lemdro.id, however I do not mod the android community on it

cole, 10 months ago

Although it’s worth clarifying the !android mods did not have any power in that decision. The original mods of the LW android community made that choice independently

cole, 10 months ago

This is false. Matter can run over multiple protocols and does in fact have its own called Thread which is based on Zigbee

cole, 10 months ago

I liked this one, although I suspect it may not always age well

cole, 10 months ago

Why have you marked yourself as a bot? Just a heads up some people won’t be able to see your comments because of that!

cole, 10 months ago

but…but… what about the lemdro.id instance (lemmy+android)

cole, 10 months ago

There should be a “bot account” toggle in your profile settings: https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/58d0aa1f-aff3-4fa4-80c9-a69998672f4b.png

cole, 10 months ago

Freesync yes, HDR soon™

cole, 10 months ago

I don’t mean to stir up anything, this is entirely respectful (remove this if it isn’t, no worries), but it is useful for someone who knew who someone named “Anthony” was, despite the fact that they don’t exist anymore. I guess it doesn’t matter, but I immediately was able to understand who they were talking about since I didn’t know she had transitioned. Is there a better way to approach providing this context?

cole, 10 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate this clarification and the different perspective is helpful. I can see why I should prioritize her well-being over my ease-of-reference. I’ll be sure to avoid this in the future

cole, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I use Breezy Weather (on fdroid: apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/…/org.breezyweather)

cole, 10 months ago

you’re welcome to make an account at lemdro.id

cole, 10 months ago

whatcha gonna do about it, ban me?

cole, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

haha I’m just poking fun at @ijeff . He’s an admin and so am I!

cole, 10 months ago

oh no

cole, 10 months ago

Nice, very interesting!

cole, 10 months ago

Well, it’s better than the previous ones imo

cole, 10 months ago

I think they’re having a hard time walking the line of trying to introduce new people without prior context to the show and catering to long-time fans

cole, 10 months ago

Your submission was removed. Wrong community, please repost to !android thanks!

cole, 10 months ago

Probably not without root

cole, 10 months ago

This is something lemdro.id focuses on as an instance but to technical content. Particularly the !android community is ran by the same mod team as the r/android subreddit and what comes with that are the AMAs with industry experts, various authors of android content on XDA and more, and other various things. !android is the premier source for Android news and technical content with the subreddit redirecting to there where reasonable

cole, 10 months ago

Don’t @ me

cole, 10 months ago

lemdro.id is always accepting new users

cole, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

you know it! That guy is a beast. represent 🤝

cole, 10 months ago

Really?? Mine is instant how long is slow

cole, 10 months ago

Spreading the load over many small instances will likely prevent this. It can be quite cheap to host lemmy well, but everything is expensive when you scale up 1000x

cole, 10 months ago

No need for a dedicated tool, I’m right here ;)

cole, 10 months ago

I’m not saying I’m not a tool… you definitely don’t need a stud finder when I’m right here

cole, 10 months ago

you can still type it in. I’ll poke the dev regarding that

cole, 10 months ago

weird, I haven’t seen any ads yet

cole, 10 months ago

no worries! Just a simple oversight

cole, 10 months ago

I had the Reddit Sync Pro lifetime thing so I just kind of figured it was because of that, but I straight up haven’t seen a single ad. It’s not like I have an ad blocker on or anything. How weird!

cole, 10 months ago

https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/182bd8fd-26c9-4014-adb1-2be2ad024037.png

cole, 10 months ago

on the other hand, if you use health connect you can export all of that juicy good data to something else that actually lets you view it

cole, 10 months ago

Google Fit, ironically

cole, 10 months ago

unfortunately. Fit is such a nice clean app, it’ll be a shame when it is killed

cole, 10 months ago

Love axios

cole, 10 months ago

Hey, thanks for asking. I run all of the backend - including paying for the costs associated. Lemdro.id has a pretty unique architecture that has taken a lot of work to perfect. As a result, we can scale down and up extremely easily as ijeff mentioned.

I will be setting up an OpenCollective eventually to accept donations, but I wanted to get the architecture stable and lemdro.id fast before I allowed people to contribute towards it. Just for your information, current hosting costs are looking to be around ~$35/mo which I am quite alright with funding on my own until I get that setup. Financially backing lemdro.id, once launched, will allow me to take advantage of the scaling architecture I’ve built to deploy servers to different regions outside of the US to keep response times low globally, too.

The idea was to make a big “state of the lemdro.id” post soon-ish that details costs, architecture, and importantly transparency. Our admin and moderation teams are fully transparent to the public via our Matrix setup, and the server architecture is slowly being integrated with GitHub. The idea is to allow the community to make contributions to improving the architecture of the instance they use by submitting PRs which then get deployed to a staging environment once reviewed and eventually pulled into production as well.

TL;DR: Yes, we will accept donations via OpenCollective which will allow us to expand lemdro.id globally to offer lower access times in other continents. This will become available once some personal goals I have set to increase lemdro.id transparency and open-source-ness are met.

If you’d like, I can ping you once I’ve got it setup, but you can expect to see a post in the !lemdroid in the next couple of weeks regarding this anyways!

cole, 10 months ago

Thanks! Yeah the costs are low because I’ve had the luxury to tune and architect lemdro.id properly before putting it out to the world for users. Our scaling methodology is really unique amongst lemmy, we are one of only two instances scaling horizontally (although we are doing so in dramatically different ways).

I figure the only way to guarantee long-time support and consistency is to keep hosting costs low so we aren’t dependent on large amounts of financial goodwill from small amounts of people.

Glad you’re liking lemdro.id, it has grown better than I even expected!

cole, 10 months ago

How is that even possible… I’ll ask around

cole, 10 months ago

Can you try clearing your cookies for lemdro.id and re-logging in?