someone tell them to use https://fed.brid.gy/

Looks like they’re going to use IP Board for the new site :(

https://forum.watmm.com/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=105431&content_commentid=3003854

I can see why people love it, but the humor wasn’t quite good enough to hook me (yet), everything else seems really good though

yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it’s the main way to use the platform

they seem to only give accounts to creators

Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.

yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple “brands” that aren’t linked to your username. People can’t find those from your main account.

All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol

I don’t think defed has been that bad, and I think over time we’ll get more features to avoid having to defed (aside from illegal content or spam).

Like users being able to block users and/or communities by instance, or admins being able to set default block lists for new users, or users being able to easily share block lists.

apparently Backblaze Desktop doesn’t support Linux.

I haven’t tried it, but apparently if you do a mapped network drive in Windows then BackBlaze will let you back it up as normal.

what’s the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

edit: I think I’m gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

I get it, they’re separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user’s channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance

I use All to read news, my subscribed feed is all more positive stuff so I don’t doomscroll.

I do the same. I’m not going to move instances over this, but it is an annoyance. Hopefully this hiding is temporary, or the issues I filed on Lemmy’s GitHub will improve the situation. Otherwise I guess I’ll subscribe and unsubscribe every day to check it? Lol

Oops I said 24 hours in the title but it should’ve been 12 hours! I edited the title, but now the post shows when I edited it instead of when I posted it… About 9.5 hours from this comment

The default Lemmy-UI (website), IDK about others

There’s a double checkmark icon in the top right of the inbox screen, that should mark all as read

OP please edit your post to put the link in correctly https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

For the eagle eyed people out there, the map is 2 communities short. The basic script I wrote couldn’t find them.

is it possible those communities have been deleted?

yea, when I open the community in Boost it’s empty there too

just to note:

this hides the community from searches unless you put in the exact community ID

https://programming.dev/search?q=news&type=Communities&listingType=All

this also hides the comments inside posts from the community, unless you are subscribed, even if you browse to the post directly

I think this should maybe be considered a bug? anyone agree? I can file the bug report on Github

EDIT: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5390

and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5391

and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2943

Fediverse Observer keeps a list of NodeBB instances that have federation enabled

https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/list