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submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/div0
 
 

When you post or comment in some of the bigger communities like Piracy or ADHD Memes it might appear as if your post is hanging.

This is misleading! The comment or post still goes through after a second or two, but the UI is buggy at the moment. You can leave it "spinning" for a while and hope it returns, or just reload the page.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/151060

Someone recently asked if there was a neat way to see where all of the now broken down subreddits moved.

Some moved to Discord, some to Lemmy, and some are somewhere else.

This seems to be a good place to find your communities again: https://sub.rehab/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by db0 to c/div0
 
 

If you create a community and you invite a mod from another instance, and that mod edits that community description, then that community's local url will break. By local url I mean the one where you go to https:instance.tld/c/community_name. The community will also not appear in "local communities".

However the "remote" url will work. This is the one which is formatted like https://instance.tld/c/[email protected]

You can currently (19/06/2023) see this effect in [email protected] (See working version)

The fix is pretty simple, you just need to set the "local" field in your postgresql DB to true. It's a single command inside your postgresql

update community set local='t' where actor_id='https://instance.tld/c/community_name';

If you don't know how to enter your postgresql DB in docker, this is the command

docker exec -it <postgres-container-name> psql -U <db user> -d <db name>

So for example, if I wanted to fix https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/flashcarts, I would write:

update community set local='t' where actor_id='https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/flashcarts';

Obviously try to avoid remote mods editing community descriptions if you can help it.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by db0 to c/div0
 
 

You know that little information thing below posts telling you which other communities a specific post has been posted to?

That one, won't appear if you crosspost a pure-text post. Sure you'll get a link in the body, but lemmy won't "intuitively" know the two posts are connected.

By using an image in the URL of the post, not only do you give your text post a thumbnail, but you allow lemmy to easier link them together when cross-posting.

If you're wondering "But where the hell do I find an image for each post", well, Generative AI to the rescue! I always just fire up Lucid Creations and use it to generate something fitting to the subject, or just something pretty at 768x512.

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submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/div0
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/276633

Been using this one for over a decade. Works with Firefox's bookmark keywords feature.

Make a new bookmark, set the link as follows:

https://lemmy.world/c/%s (or your own Lemmy instance)

And in the "Keyword" field, use "c" or "lemmy" or whatever.

Now, when you want to visit a specific Lemmy community on your home instance, you can simply type:

"c community_name" in the address bar, or "lemmy community_name" in Firefox and it will automatically open the community.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by wololo to c/div0
 
 

Literally the only community missing from reddit. I and many other unix users need to share screenshots or else we'll die from ligma.

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I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but I'm having problems setting my profile picture. I get 2 different error messages:

  • When I upload the picture and hit save: TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

  • When I upload the picture and don't do anything after: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

    (The console says the error happened in handleImageUpload)

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by db0 to c/div0
 
 

Hey y'all I wanted to make something clear. While the lemmy.dbzer0.com allows anyone to create community because I feel there's a lot of creativity to be found by giving people this freedom, I also don't want a sea of flotsam in our communities list.

So while I'm not going to shut down community creation, I am planning to start curating the available communities a bit more from now on.

What it means for you is that if you plan to create a community, I expect you to actually have a plan to grow it. Not just register the name so that you squat on it and hope other join so that you end up the top mod other users built-up.

Practically this means that we expect to see some activity on those communities, a sidebar that explains what it's about, reasonable names and titles etc. Please also do the effort of adding a banner and an Icon. I've developed a free Generative AI art tool you can use even!

Communities which we perceive to be abandoned or squatting will be summarily purged. My plan for now is to purge empty communities within 1 week after giving a warning. I haven't decided how to deal with communities which have posts and subscribers yet, but if it's inactive long enough and the amount of posts is trivially small, I'll probably start purging those within a month. I do not think I'll purge communities with significant amount of posts and subscribers however.

I also plan to post a report about purged communities when we do so, so that people are aware.

Thanks for reading. Let's try to keep the quality of the divisions by zero sufficiently high.

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submitted 2 years ago by matbag08 to c/div0
 
 

Was a little confusing at first to get this app set up but I think I finally got it. It's messed up to hear what's going on with reddit for sure but I am here to support a fellow pirate anyway I can. Thank you good sir.

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Y'all are blowing my mind rn

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First post here from a new Lemmy user and Reddit refugee. Figured I’d try out a message that says “thanks” for setting up and running this cool instance for us - I bet it’s a lot of work. I never spent a penny at Reddit, but I donated here. To my fellow shipmates I’d encourage you to donate your time or money as well to our captain ;)

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Pretty much the title just interests me which country.

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Upgrade to 0.17.4 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/div0
 
 

Once the current surge of users due to me hitting the reddit frontpage I plan to upgrade to 0.17.4 and I hope this helps with the slow comment posts I've been noticing.

I'm not quite sure why the lemmy.dbzer0.com feels slow, even though my servers do not appear overloaded, so I'm going to try that out.

If you think something else might be the problem, lemme know.

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submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/div0
 
 

Fitting that It's about me being demodded from reddit?

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112

Attached: 2 images 👿 PSA: #Reddit is restoring deleted and overwritten posts to save what they consider "their data". This is a new low and probably illegal at least in Europe. You can send a GDPR or CPRA request here: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request These are screenshots of my profile on June 14th before and after overwriting and then deleting all my posts with Powerdelete. Today, June 16th all my posts have been restored by Reddit without my knowledge or consent. #redditblackout #redditmigration #kbin #lemmy

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/r/piracy is already indefinite blackout. Many others as well, but frustratingly too many others took the scab route and reopened.

Also the astroturfing in the reddit comments in ridiculous

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This is being worked on. If your account registation gets stuck, assume you need to change your username

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Admin Applications (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by db0 to c/div0
 
 

This instance is growing very fast. I realize I will not be able to administrate it effectively along with my other roles and projects. I am looking for 1-2 people who want admin positions. Ultimately I would like to have 1 admin per 2K users.

Since this is a very sensitive role, I want people who share the same values. So people against all forms of bigotry with enthusiasm about open culture. I.e. you should be enthusiastically be aligned with the rules on the sidebar.

Please post your applications here. Please post reddit, lemmy or mastodon accounts which I can use to verify your history. I may contact your on those social media to ensure it's you.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by db0 to c/div0
 
 

Altready most major subs are re-opening, and bootlickers are gloating that this didn't achieve anything.

There's still an attempt to keep things going but it's a milquetoast "let's shut down on wednesday, ya'll".

There was never a strong consensus to redirect people to alternatives like lemmy, so people used other parts of reddit until their favourite subs reopened. And when people redirected, most of them just directed to fuckin' discord, which doesn't serve the same purpose at all and is even worse from the lock-in perspective.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by db0 to c/div0
 
 

I just finished upgrading my this lemmy instance's frontend & API VM, effectively doubling it's processing power. Thing should again start to feel snappy around here.

For those interested the current setup is:

  • 1xVPS @ 8 cores, 30G Ram and 1Tb storage for Loadbalancer, Lemmy and Lemmy UI
  • 1xDedicated Server @ 16cores and 128GR RAM for the postgresql Database (shared with some other projects)

If this starts getting overloaded (which I honestly don't expect for a bit more at least) next step is a dedicated box for the frontend/API

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Upgrade incoming (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/div0
 
 

I'm seeing the server struggle a bit, even though the CPUs are nowhere near maxed, so I'm ordering an upgrade to double its power and quadruple its storage.

Unfortunately I don't control the VPS downtime, so this might happen more or less randomly.

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submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/div0
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by db0 to c/div0
 
 

EDIT/UPDATE: Recent versions of lemmy make this even easier by allowing turning the !instance format into a relative link to your instance. For example [email protected]. However when you do this, don't use the auto-fill option which turns it into a markdown link, as that will break this functionality.

When you link to another community on lemmy with a absolute link like so Div/0 this links to that community directly from that instance's domain. This means users who follow that link from other instances, will not be able to comment or subscribe. They will have to go back and edit their URL manually to workaround this.

If you instead link to a community using a relative link like so Div/0 it will lead them to the community using their own instance as a mediator, allowing them to interact with it naturally.

The source for the above relative link is like this [Div/0](/c/[email protected]). So basically just add only the /c/... part and ensure your instance's domain is at the end

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submitted 2 years ago by Anopey to c/div0
 
 

Lemmy definitely looks very interesting! I hope it grows since I've become more and more sick of Reddit over time.

Looking forward to everything div/0 offers too!

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