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Even in this thread I’d rather phrase it explicitly to include everyone - I’ve seen statements like this interpreted by some individuals as “make it welcoming for women at all costs, which may include making it openly hostile for people not meeting my specific definition of woman”, which didn’t have a very pretty end result.

Make sure you’re helping make Lemmy a welcoming place for non-males

I’d phrase that as “make sure you’re helping make Lemmy a welcoming place for everybody”

Being active in a pretty friendly tech scene in the late 90s/early 00s I’ve seen things being ruined for quite a bunch of people who enjoyed being where nobody was judging them for who they were or wanted to be after a bunch of newly joined women decided to try force a bunch of “women only” policies.

Just don’t be dicks to each other, no matter who’s on the other end. And don’t try to force talking about who you are in places where nobody cares - there are specific groups for that.

I hate the marketplace thing, and the harder it became to filter out third parties the more I ordered outside of amazon.

I came to amazon back then because it was one seller offering most I cared about, and a single contact for everything. More and more stuff is now only available via 3rd parties - and with that I can just order stuff bypassing amazon.

I also was almost dismissing it as “who let raddle out of the box again”, but this is indeed a valid complaint, which even is easy enough for kbin to become compliant - so I also don’t see why they didn’t do it immediately when it was pointed out.

I assume it’s a 5G unit? If so, are you locked to that thing, or can you buy your own?

Around here I’ve mostly seen outdoor mountable units - 5G does best with short to no external antennas, so it is sensible to keep the router on the roof or balcony pointing the right direction.

I have an older 4G installation as backup link here with external antennas, plus a 5G backup link with the router mounted next to the 4G antenna.

Another problem is that even if sites and their content stay up they often reorganize it for various reasons - often by importing old content into some new platform - and don’t care about the URLs the content is available at. Which breaks all links to it.

Some pages at least try to show you a page with suggestions what you might’ve been going for, but I’ve also seen those less and less over the years.

For my stuff I’ve been making sure to keep links working for over two decades now - on my personal page you can still access everything similary to /cgi-bin/script.cgi?page even though that script and the cgi-bin directory as a whole has been gone for over a decade. But I seem to be pretty alone in efforts trying to keep things at stable locations.

edit: I just noticed matrix.org broke all links coming from google search at least for bridges. They should’ve known better.

Information about post changes on the originating instance come in pretty much in real time, and get saved in the local database.

If the local instance is configured with pictrs support images are also cached locally.

this has helped me realize the unhealthy relationship I had with Reddit and was a good way to break that

Exactly, now that I have an unhealthy relationship with Lemmy I can’t put effort into the one with Reddit.

There are import scripts - the problem is that Reddit has disabled the Pushshift API end of March, which makes data exporting significantly harder. There are some archives from before that available as torrent, and there has been effort from r/datahoarders to archive and submit it to archive.org before the shutdown.

I’ve been looking into that for our sub, and concluded it’s currently not sensible - so in case we decide to reopen restricted for archive access I created a bot that re-posts Lemmy postings into the locked subreddit for discoverability, and adds a comment to drive users out for commenting.

It’s the other way round: It posts links to Lemmy posts to reddit, and then adds a top level comment stating that to post and comment you need to go to Lemmy.

In case you want to go that route: I made a bot that posts links to posts in a list of lemmy communities to a subreddit, optionally with flair and a comment of what is going on, to be run in a fully restricted subreddit (i.e., no comments show up at all, new posts need to be made via lemmy)