This monkey-script is awesome: Lemmy Universal Link Switcher

It converts all links to your home instance (in your browser).

They didn’t even show that this guy owns (or owned) the land…

(They even say he has no deed or proof.)

This is lazy clickbait journalism.

Answer (to the clickbait title): No.

Reason (from the article): The wind-farm land-rights were purchased by a chinese company for millions, directly from a Bosnian politician (and the bosnian politician had secured the land-rights from “local authorities”).

It says that right in the “article”.

…It’s a pretty lame “article”…

…clickbait title, zero evidence to support the claim, written in the style of a first-draft.

Yeah, I understand what you mean (after a year of exploring the Web Socket).

That lemmy auth value is pulled from a JWT cookie in the browser - which you can access in JS by document.cookie. It allows user-specific API calls (retrieving saved posts, subscribed communities, etc).

Yes exactly - living on the edge!

One way to learn the new API is - explore the code of (similar) extensions and browser scripts, to see how they build and send their calls.

Is there a specific API call you’d like to make?

Maybe someone can reveal that method and endpoint.

This User Script called Fediverse Redirector auto-redirects all Community, Post, and User pages to your home instance. It works well.

• Just click install on that page - it will be added to TamperMonkey (or similar).

• Then click settings (under the script) and enter your home lemmy instance.

And to directly answer your question: the raw code is visible in that repo, so you could explore how the post redirect query was constructed.

Yes, this issue has been fixed and merged into 18.1 (the next lemmy version).

• You can see the lemmy-UI github issue here.

• You can see the fix/merge here.

And as a temporary fix (until 18.1 releases) - if you click the “create post” button, then click the “back” button, the subscribe button should magically appear.

That’s true - Lemmy displays new comments above “top” comments, allowing them to be seen by everyone.

1. To find new communities - go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right “Home” icon and input your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)… now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.

2. Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): https://lemmy.ml/post/1470777

3. Change your default “Sort Type” to “Subscribed + New” (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.

4. Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more ‘performative’ tone of greeddit).

Yeah Open Source is the foundation, and the future!

I agree, there is a time for purposeful sarcasm.

To me, it requires two conditions:

1. A person has already expressed their real perspective to a specific ‘opponent’, and

2. That specific opponent cannot see the hole in their own logic.

This Norm MacDonald radio clip is a good example.

He explains his true perspective, and only switches to sarcasm for one sentence (at 5:25), to show the opponent how she is being goofy [and it works].

His foundation of sincerity gives context to the sarcasm.

Conversely - nowadays - a common ‘communication style’ is to just spray aimless sarcasm at distant or imaginary foes,

which (to me) reflects a deeper cultural issue…

a hiding behind mockery, a suppression of real constructive bravery,

just dunking on one-dimensional charicatures of strangers (who might not actually exist).

[So I agree with you - there are times for purposeful sarcasm.]

This is a very short story about sarcasm:

Ted opposes racist rants.

Yesterday - Ted posted a few exaggerated racist rants (sometimes with the /s).

2,177 people saw Ted’s racist rants.

• 50% of them guessed he was joking.

• 98% of them would not have seen a racist rant yesterday, if it weren’t for Ted’s little gag.

So the question is:

Despite the sarcasm… isn’t Ted just spreading more of what he honestly deplores?

Is Ted subverting his own integrity?

Why not say how we actually feel?

Successful Login automatically initiates a GetSite operation, which contains person_id:

op.data.my_user.local_user_view.local_user.person_id

and username:

op.data.my_user.local_user_view.person.name

That will do it.

Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?

It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables…

• and then duplicates a comment (spam),
• and then stretches the duplicated comment vertically (spam).

If you agree that most bots are spam, then why are you making and promoting bots?

Here’s a human haiku:

bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.

i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?

The JS-client docs are automatically created by TypeDoc (which takes TypeScript code and generates HTML documentation).

Good question Charlie Fish :)

Yeah lemmy is a chill place.

It is wild to watch the rapid expansion.

This is the week of greatest change - so enjoy the rush!

• 0.17.4 is running great,
• and the community is handling people’s questions well,

so you made the right choice.

[I will start testing 0.18 now.]