I am a Reddit mod. Gimme the step-by-step tutorial! There are certain subs that I want to see reproduced ASAP, like /r/LifeProTips and more!

It's ironic how I heard from a Facebook employee that the staff members of Facebook have their own internal Facebook network, and it functions a lot more closely like how Facebook was originally supposed to be designed—versus the public model's cesspool of marketing, ads, privacy violations, and manipulation that is the only one we now all know.

Soooo glad it's open-source!

help users who need help so people start searching lemmy for tech solutions

For a moment, I misread this as "tech positions" and got excited about a job board on here.

Why is this post in the FOSS community? This is more about culture than technology. 🤨

Off-topic: why do you tag the user whose comment you're directly responding to? Others, sure, but the parent comment already gets a notification of your response.

What will stop bots from coming here? Registration filters and user reports?

That seems kind of ridiculous that they technically make it all optional.

I don’t love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone

For anything? Why not? Surely you don't believe SMS-based TOTP is safer, right?

I'm onto borrowing a bunch of sci-fi movies (like Blade Runner) from the library after realizing that it carries them!

And I'm thinking of giving in and posting in /r/cf4cf, finally... not sure of what the equivalent community might be in the Lemmiverse...

So what does that mean?

Thank goodness!

the only viable option, assuming you're not already independently wealthy, is that you have to work another job to work on the game in the meantime, which means it will take even longer to come out.

Or be ConcernedApe.

no idiot is unilaterally making decisions like a king.

Every decision is made by one person or a party of people specifically saying "Yes" to it. Whether they are "idiot[s]" is up for debate, but every single event involving anything artificial is decided by a person/people, not merely a faceless system.

Mother cicadas use the metal-enhanced saws built into their abdomens—wood-drilling shafts layered with elements like aluminum, copper, and iron—to slice pockets into tree branches, where they’ll lay roughly 500 eggs each.

Whoa.

Scary! Glad you're safe!

Cool, I already use AntennaPod and it's great!

Really annoyed to find out that Google Play credit must entirely cover an app purchase or else it doesn't get used at all. Oh, well. There are innumerable worse injustices out there.

That's exactly what I was gonna say: @davehtaylor must have no idea of the nearly-cost-free Layer 2 network.

Additionally, how much money does it take to power banks? All the staff, the electricity, the Brinks armored cars, the accounting for all that cash, the safety deposit boxes and all of their contents and insurance... Does he think ACH transfers or, worse, checks or money orders, are free on an environmental level? How is USD with all of its nonstop-growing debt safe in any long-term way?

You are assuming that this moderator criticism applies universally; there are dozens of subs with fantastic, fair mods, which are the only ones I sub to. I actively avoid subs that have mods who I see lock or delete stuff too often for my taste. Reddit also has major pastimes like /r/FreeGameFindings that people are not willing to give up; that place is one of my favorite hobbies and I can only hope a Telegram bot gets generated to notify me of its Lemmy counterpart's posts, as one does of the subreddit's. (Someone, help!)

Mods' CSS work may also serve as a real-life portfolio for actual jobs; who knows? The bots could also be, depending on the content, helping them make real money or otherwise find irl opportunities for preferred alternative fitness (/r/AppLab) or lifestyle preferences.

/r/MealPrepSunday is still going. /r/legaladvice is going. People get real-world help here and they aren't willing to give that up. /r/BeerMoney is going absolutely strong and it literally helps people make money.

What these mods should be doing is staying open and making a pinned post saying "Consider joining our equivalent on Lemmy." But within Reddit's scope, they can shut that down, too. Reddit is a for-profit entity just like Facebook and Twitter, which have every right to clamp down on encouragement away to Mastodon, etc. even if it makes them look bad.

So, as I asked someone else here who was criticizing the continuation of the API shutdown or why people are not being as vehemently opposed to it as some Lemmy migrants: what subs were you frequenting?

Lastly, I am a mod of dozens of smaller subs. What matters to me most is making sure everyone has a home to discuss their favorite topics. They're generally niche enough to not actually need moderation, but I'm seeing I also don't have enough time to figure out how to generate (or just plain generate) Lemmy counterparts for everything, though I used to have sufficient time in the past. People's lives can change but they still depend on things that are important to them.

To all programmers, I am serious about all the extensive integrations into subs being a factor for why people still go there. I would love to see a Telegram bot for a counterpart to /r/GooglePlayDeals, like https://t.me/r_googleplaydeals and /r/FreeGameFindings, like https://t.me/r_FreeGameFindings, which would help people leave more easily.

Losing a bad friendship already sounds like a net positive to me!

The second turtle should have a pirate hat and eye patch.

The GIMP has been timelessly heralded. I personally just put up with closed-source IrfanView and Paint.NET, personally.

What about just saving that revisited post/comment to a personal stash, like in Google Drive or something? There is definitely more competition now, at any rate!

That's a long time. Well, thankfully, we don't have to tell even our closest friends everything. You're always free to compartmentalize and share different things with people who you think are most likely to help you. I don't think there's any one person with whom I share everything, personally, at least at the moment.

Death? Facebook is still lumbering with no problem, because there are groups on there that help people make money, which keep them there forever. I manage one such network and have no idea of how to get away from Facebook, because it's basically like a non-anonymous equivalent to Craigslist jobs, which makes it so much safer and easier to find and post work on. Anything else would require more separate accounts that people probably just don't care for, etc.

I would like to leave Reddit but I don't know if my favorite communities will migrate or grow here (and I sure don't have the time to maintain them all, or the know-how to keep generating the content that they do).

That's… I would find maturer friends. I can't believe that's what their reaction is to your difficulties.

I recently started my own Matrix home server.

Cool! What's the simplest step-by-step guide out there for this?

Wow, I had to reread this thrice. Your critical thinking skills are better than mine.

I kinda now wanna see this story, OP, lol!

Ouch! I once broke my toe walking into something, so I know what you mean! Hope it heals soon.

I almost ended up destroying my house.

What had happened?!

Beehaw would be far more thriving if they let users make communities instead of restricting us to the current generic ones. I think that's the single biggest factor preventing this place from booming.

Anyway, not sure of how much we may have in common, but I'm also on Kbin and would be happy to be friends!

Still hemming and hawing over attempting a career change into being a Digital Court Reporter or something else, but my current workplace is gonna have a probably good leader soon who can maybe turn things around... so maybe I'll kick the career can down the road further...

It's generative so it will generate plausible answers with no consistency of truthfulness.

We have common(-enough) sense to be able to pick up on whether it's being sensible or not, after which we take to search engines. Search engines are now the fallback; a friend of mine and I have nearly totally replaced search engines with ChatGPT as the primary way of quickly, initially getting info now. If you stay aware of its limitations, it can be life-changing in a positive way.

Interesting, and terrible of these impostors to do. Done! Now, where's the Internet police to take this ten steps further?

What exactly is the learning curve? There are posts and comments, votes, and links. The icons seem very clear to me. Even the markdown seems to be identical, so far, except for spoiler text. There is hardly any learning curve for me as a long-time redditor and first-time user of Lemmy.

It occasionally renders incorrectly, but yeah, I haven't been able to find a dark-mode extension better than this!

I tried it repeatedly and just can't stand the sudden-death approach to every blind. I guess I like health/hull points too much.

That's such a good model.