There needs to be some clear guidance on this for newbies. As it is, you have to stumble across scraps of random discussions to learn about defederation and partial federation politics. You generally do this after you e already spent time on an account. Seriously, how is a person supposed to know what instance to choose up front?
Someology
joined 2 years ago
Such an utterly unhelpful comment.
I knew nothing about inter-Lemmy-instance-politics when I made my account. I simply made it on a server that was actually not SO overwhelmed that it couldn't make new accounts. I would imagine the same is true of many new users of late.
My Lemmy exerience: We're (heavily) advertised to on Reddit during the pre-blackout mess that we should try Lemmy. I go to try Lemmy. Server is broken. Server is broken. Server is not allowing new users. Server is not allowing new users. Ah! This one actually functions, so I can try Lemmy! Start following and posting, and finding nice communities. Then start finding out that some of these only federate in one direction, so I'm posting to people on another instance who can't see it, because of Lemmy admin bickering and politics. Great, now I need to start over with a new account again, just when I was feeling settled in? Leaves a bad taste, and I was lucky enough to not end up on one of the MOST hated instances.
I hate politics. You can't escape them anywhere involving humans.
Jerboa was updated to only work with servers on Lemmy version 0.18, a day before the update was available to admins to install. IDK why it isn't updated still, unless they're doing testing.
It is the best "New Trek" by far. Vastly better than Discovery. You should definitely give it a chance. It isn't perfect, but it is a positive relief to watch after some of the other recent stuff.
FYI: This technique is called "applique" if you want to be able to search for examples or tutorials.
Assuming you are logged in to the website, couldn't the website just check to see where you're logged in to? Seems like a cookie might be able to do that (if the user gave permission)?
Yes, I do think they are, but by choosing a Samsung smartphone, I've already decided to be OK with that on some level. I turn off features that connect to outside companies for the most part, and I've chosen to believe that Samsung does what it claims with the settings that users have available to them on the phone. It doesn't mean that I'm just fine with handing everything over to any other random company. Samsung states that they use Branch for searches inside their Galaxy Store. Some claims have been made that Branch powers the Finder (search) function on Samsung phones (althugh I can't find confirmation), but this Finder Customization Service is a feature you can disable on a Samsung Galaxy phone. You can also turn off search suggestions for Finder and disable it's ability to open links. You can disable Google and Samsung's browsers and Internet searches as well.I am the sort of user who checks permissions of apps before downloading them (and disables everything I don't use), and I don't want my launcher (which I paid for) on a device I paid a not small sum of money for, to send every single tap back to a marketing firm directly.
There is a mass of tall daylilies behind them, so it doesn't stand out a lot in this photo. It has 4 stems which are around 3 feet/1 meter in height.
All the Lemmy apps in one spot: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m_MWfu72TQWiCV5aEH_Kb9PCFcqlRQK5a0yWl-XUjZI/edit#gid=0
Lemmy is the first Reddit alternative most recent refugees have tried out, but it is clear that many existing Lemmy users do not want their platform to grow.