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Lemmy doesn’t have to be Reddit. Lemmy is Lemmy. Keep coming here and giving it content and it will be all it will ever need to be.

Oh, of course. We’ll easily be just as popular as Matrix and Mastodon.

sigh

It’s software.

You could install it on a server and run a private room for your family(my usecase).

Nazis also meet in dark alleyways. Should we ban dark alleyways? No, we should probably illuminate them and decorate them a little.

Whatever effect it has should be named after that one Indian guy who was so rich, he made an entire polo shirt woven from gold fabric just because he could.

My associate, Pinky and I are here to inspect your luxurious and delicious cheeses to make sure they are up to code.

We named it Earth after we got here.

Under any other circumstances, we’d be on Planet McPlanetface (by popular vote).

Ah, I see. That’s my big difference. I’m penciling it into each device as the chosen DNS server per device, which Android doesn’t like.

I’ve never trusted that one raspberrypi enough to aim my whole router at it and hope my network stays up while I’m gone.

My scenario is under the assumption that you’re selectively aiming individual devices to Pihole’s DNS and not aiming your entire network at it.

I’m holding a Pixel 6 too.

Underrated phone, gets a lot of flak.

aaaaaaand then there’s Android.

Android will not remove your default DNS, and will only use added DNS servers as additional rather-than instead of.

edit: this is only if you aim individual devices at a pihole instance and not wrapping your whole network or vlan to pihole. If you’re forcing every request the phone makes, it doesn’t matter and this is moot.

There are free apps that make localhost VPNs on your device to bypass this that force your network to use a chosen DNS server.

This is also a built-in function of Tailscale, setting Tailscale’s DNS to Pihole or Adguard, and were you running wireguard or openvpn already, you could use them as entrypoints as well.

Mullvad and other paid VPN services often also offer to use DNS servers that blocks ads, tracking and malware.

let’s see what’s on YouTube…

Opens Firefox next to Chrome

Yeah, but no, but yeah.

On Lemmy, individual communities aren’t big enough to be communities but the community is big enough to be a community.

So any post that makes it to the front of the entire Fediverse has quite a few familiar faces and feels like old reddit would.

The issue I find with wanting Lemmy to be as big as Reddit is, you’re pining for an era of Reddit that doesn’t exist anymore. You can’t go back to 2011-2020 Reddit. It isn’t there to go back to. Bot posts aren’t just indistinguishable on occasion, they’re upvoted all the same, by other bots.

This is the best you’ve got. Pitch a tent and make the most of it, fam.

edit: they’re stoked about something, I’m sure.

Go to any tech community and most of the questions are “how do I get this to work?”

It’s why they made an account. Go to any Steam game community page, lmao. Linux isn’t exclusive on that one. They wouldn’t be posting if they didn’t have a question? It’s why they showed up.

Do people go to Microsoft forums to hang out with their buddies?

I know how good Linux is, it’s why I use it. I won’t be trolled out of using it because it’s too hard for you. I use it every day. I’m using it rn.

The loudest voices shouting about how bad W11 is are always Linux users, especially on Lemmy

If we had nothing to complain about, we’d still be using Windows. It’s why we aren’t.

I use Jellyfin and Finamp and they work fine. All the old navidrome and airsonic solutions seem to be dead, and I never liked Funkwhale. Who wants all of their music in encrypted block storage?

I also like the quality bump. When I’m not streaming, my music is in FLAC on a DAP with some high quality cans. I can’t get that with Spotify on a phone, and I camp and hike a lot in areas without cell service, so having it with me is a plus.

Music sits in between storing movies and books. I have less than 2TB in total but the amount of albums is more than the amount of films that I have, and that’s 7TB+. Music, even FLAC, isn’t terrible on space, unless you’re a 24-bit fiend.

buys next technology item

Maybe this will make me happy…

Or even worse, setup jellyfin with sonarr server to completely automate everything and watch everything for absolutely free and continue to do so forever??

Oh no?..

status of “Books”

isnt is

It’s just… Part of TikTok is attention-seeking.

It’s kinda the entire point for a lot of the users and uploaders, that and getting paid to continue the cycle of creating more content.

If you’re expecting us, as-in, the federated populace on Lemmy and Mastodon to use it, I dunno, man. Sharing personal content is a very rare use case here. We usually stick to news and memes.

Then again, communities that are rather reliant on a performance like fishing, sports, guitar, drums, and skill toys like yoyos might get a use out of having a safe public place to upload themselves without outside influence.

Preservation is an invasive and destructive process. Recreating the experience of watching ‘The Daily Show’ in the 90s or early '00s is already impossible. Language and culture mildew and rot just like leather and wood.

EDIT: People don’t seem to understand what I’m talking about. Even the people who are responding in good faith seem confused. That’s on me. So I thought I’d try to clarify with an example.

Take the Mona Lisa. Perhaps one of the most preserved objects in history. It’s so well preserved that it’s impossible to see. Sure, you can look at it, but you won’t see it. Taking a picture of the painting is encouraged, but you can’t get a look at it in your camera roll either.

If you saw the actual painting hanging on a friend’s wall, your first thought would probably not be “what a masterpiece”, but “why didn’t they remove the default print that came with the frame”? If you go to Paris, you can wait in line to have the “Mona Lisa experience” but the painting you saw wasn’t hanging on the wall, what you’ll see is the Mona Lisa you brought with you.

(yes, I stole this example from ‘were in hell’ youtube channel)

Figured I’d make a copy. Who knows, the OP might change it in the future. Gotta preserve the past and all.