https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/

maybe not the healthiest, but these are some of my favorites https://quex.cc/c/recipes

Interesting - here’s a news story about it (Guardian) ‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power

Scrolling back through the original news archives is pretty interesting http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/News/9211.html there’s a link at the bottom of each for “previous edition”.

Maybe they’re just chilling in Mark’s metaverse.

“Toot” is a silly word invented to make Mastodon seem like Twitter. However “tweet” is equally ridiculous.

We already have a word - “comment” - which is universally understood. Also has the added benefit of not being conceived by some Silicon Valley marketing genius.

hosting freshrss locally and just tested that it can subscribe to reddit no problems (although I don’t want to) - their cloud instances should work : https://www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html

Great work. Thanks for all the effort and info.

the damage that corporate social media has inflicted on our social fabric and political discourse is beyond anything we could have imagined.

Right, except we aren’t trying to “replace” youtube. Those who are prepared to put up with youtube can have it. Same with spez/reddit. If people like those platforms, and happy with them then they can stay there. Those of us who don’t care for them can develop communities and content elsewhere.

If you’re cool with algorithms showing you ads every five minutes then by all means stick with the commercial platforms, but you’re also generally welcome to help build or support a platform that provides a better user experience – and doesn’t use revenue growth as the primary motivator for everything.

Youtube: “Watch our ads or else”

Reddit: “Watch our ads or else”

Fediverse: “Else”

we aren’t “competing”. We aren’t shilling for an IPO. We aren’t trying to emulate commercial social media. We don’t need 20% annual growth - or even significantly more users. We just need civil discussion forums without vitriol being deliberately injected to maximize ad impressions. On the fediverse, we are not the product.

Lithium mining in the Congo:

Find your reddit community on the fediverse:

Lemmy Community Browser

the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users

Anyone with a moral compass (and business sense) would have devised a token equity plan to appease 3rd parties and mods. Oh well – thanks for all the new users, spez. see you on myspace.

you can run something like this on the host - make sure you use the correct container name

#!/bin/bash
# check the container name with docker ps first
container_name="instance_name_postgres_1"

echo "dumping pgsql"
# Backup command
docker exec -t "${container_name}" pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy > lemmy_dump.sql

suggest you not leave unencrypted backup on the host system but copy it somewhere else, preferably after encrypting it with gpg.

there are alive cats and dead cats at the same time.

well, yeah, I wouldn’t disagree but it’s not like they aren’t trying. I think with Mastodon the followers are a lot more important than the toots though. I would agree that posting history here is probably a bigger deal.

I haven’t looked at the back end to understand what might be involved, but just configuring the instance has given me an appreciation for the complexities and challenges involved in getting a federated app running at scale.

right, which is how things would be if the overarching objective of all software was to serve the needs of the general public - and to improve the lives of the users vs the shareholders. That is is how we end up paying a hundred or so a year to use some shitty web site to file taxes. Sorry I didn’t know the o word was a no-no, I couldn’t think of anything else more apt without swearing.

I agree with you that Mastodon and Lemmy are quite different - the point of the fediverse is that you can communicate across them if you want. Here’s our conversation showing up in Mastodon:

Lemmy is more like Reddit - principally short, text-based, Mastodon is more like twitter and there’s a lot more graphical stuff there. Personally I find lemmy more intuitive - but I was never really into twitter, whereas I wasted a ton of time on reddit.

Interestingly in the screen shot above, the reply I made to the other poster about the NSFW instance that shows a graphic doesn’t show up - I don’t know why that is, but you can see our exchange shows just fine in Mastodon. In short, I prefer Lemmy but Mastodon has loads of photography and graphical content if that’s your preference - but you can most definitely interact between them. This should be a key factor as the fediverse matures and should help to ensure that our communities continue to grow.