“Like all Reddit blowups, this one will pass” “subs will come back Wednesday”… Translation: “It’s only two days, we can wait that long, we’re not gonna listen to our angry users”

So here’s hoping the mods listen, and respond accordingly

I saw some bug reports and patches for this in the Lemmur repo. Then some newer bug reports for the issue again…

Development of Lemmur has stopped so it’s not gonna get fixed. Use Jerboa

If you’re the first person on your instance to look up that particular sub (community) from a different instance, it will take 10-30 seconds to before it shows up in your search, and you might need to hit search again. Or, after your first search, go to Commities -> All and search again, it should be there immediately

It’s a known bug, the developers are looking to streamline the process

If you click on your username then Settings in the upper corner of the web interface, you should have a long list of languages you can select.

Initially I only had English, and had to ask the admin to enable more languages on our instance, ref lemmy_support post: https://reddthat.com/post/1976

It’s a the double @ seems to be a general fediverse thing.

Looks like it’s because you’re a @user (inspired by Twitter maybe), as opposed to a #topic or a !community

Somebody made a Mastodon bot that that updates user numbers every hour https://botsin.space/@threadcount

98,776 Lemmy/kbin accounts +2,326 in the last hour 15,274 monthly active users

I’m actually having the opposite experience (for the most part). All the little papercuts of yesteryear are almost completely gone, and it’s only looking better on the horizon. Of course your mileage may vary depending on use case and hardware…

Some things of the top of my head:

• Flatpak replacing 3rd party PPAs. Brand new software without dependency hell or breaking system packages? Yes please
• Snaps and AppImages too
• XDG Portals standards, making snaps and flatpaks play nice with confinement
• Audio and Bluetooth? It “just works” now
• Pipewire
• Even gaming works really well now, with Proton, DXVK etc
• AMD and Intel drivers baked in to the kernel
• Wayland finally being production ready for many use-cases, and being adopted as the default, fixing so many of the ancient X11 issues (screen tearing, multiple displays with different scaling, refresh rate, fractional scaling) ( cries in Nvidia )
• Nvidia finally changing their mind so Wayland on Nvidia can be a thing (I can’t wait 😊)
• KDE Connect / gsConnect phone integration
• Screensharing on Wayland even on legacy X11 apps becoming a thing through the new screensharing Portal

The only problem I’ve had recently is Ubuntu’s forced snapification, and snap being very rough around the edges for Desktop apps (ahem drag’drop)

This is so stupid I love it 😂

The developer of RedReader was planning to port it to Lemmy. This was before RedReader was given an exemption for the API prices though. Hopefully he still is heading that direction, but Lemmy support might have been put on the backburner until he’s done the changes required for the new API policy

RedReader was my app of choice alongside RiF , so I’m super excited if it gets Lemmy support

The Youtuber TheLinuxExperiment did a Quick start guide to the fediverse video 6months ago, focusing on Mastodon Peertube and Pixelfed. I think Lemmy was only briefly mentioned though

While not a video, there are a few posts with concrete examples:

Brief infographic

Lemmy.world starting guide

Guide to help new lemmy users find and subscribe-to (remote) lemmy communities

Subscribe to Kbin threads from Lemmy

I didn’t know there was a new season comming, this is super exciting!

Really hoping they can pull off another great season, last time they got renewed it was still incredible

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised

Yeah this is very clunky at the moment. Especially on a smaller server where most communities aren’t yet known to your instance. I saw another comment saying its a priority by the devs to improve this, so fingers crossed 🤞

Right now it’s a bit wild west, but I think for now the best is to just sub to the “most active” community and let that become the “main” community

If theres no obvious most-active one, just sub to both/all and see which one emerges

Lemmy Community Browser to the rescue! Good for finding communities across all instances

From the wording Reddit used, Specifically as a non-commercial accessibility app.

It’s seems non-commercial alone , or accessibility alone is not enough to be excempt

I dabbled a bit in Peertube but never made an account or anything, so Lemmy’s the first one I’ve engaged with.

I signed up for Mastodon too now to try it out, but I never had Twitter so never really had much interest in Mastodon either. Still this fediverse stuff is exciting, so trying it out now.

PSA: there is PixelFed which in an image publication platform. (“Instagram-like”)

I believe the Steam Deck also uses a similar concept too. It’s very valuable for a company to deliver system updates to appliance-type devices without the risk of breaking anything

I’ve been running Kubuntu for a decade, (including the dark days of of early 4.0, 4.1). Kubuntu has been striking a nice balance of newish software, newish kernel and newish KDE

Though recent changes like the snapification of Firefox has left a bad taste. Might try OpenSuse KDE or Fedore KDE instead soon

Flatpak and AppImages has also changed the equation a lot, so maybe an old/stable base like Neon or Debian isn’t so bad anymore