I run the midwest.social instance. I’m also active on lemmy.ml. @seahorse@lemmy.ml

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Cake day: abu. 04, 2021

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I'm getting notifications for comments on a post I made saying there are 2 comments but only one was made. I also usually get 2 emails when someone comments or replies to me instead of just 1. ![](https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/c742a8a7-be23-466c-88a8-2c307faf4573.png) ![](https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/9798be56-af30-43fa-beea-97a2c0d00ee9.png)
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You can give your site “taglines”, short markdown messages, which are shown at the top of your front page.

What is considered the Front Page?


I think I searched for “open source reddit” and Lemmy was one of the search results. Joined lemmy.ml, and then a year or so later started my own instance.


This one I use daily: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-vertical-ergonomic-mouse.910-005447.html

You can keep the usb connector attached and use it that way if you want to avoid bluetooth.


You da real mvp! Thanks for contributing to my instance!


cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/385425 > Just set this up for my local Food Not Bombs chapter so they can coordinate with volunteers and others better.
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They’re fucking annoying. The fact that someone would put effort into becoming an influencer is cringe.



Awesome! I tried to do this awhile back and the article was rejected because not enough news sources had written about it.


I’ve stuck with the blue lo-carb one. Tastes about the same as the green but with way less calories.




Hmm, I’m just running it on Android and updated this morning. Works fine for me.


“How could socialism do this?”


Not yet. Someone did start a Rust-based TUI for Lemmy but I think it was abandoned.



We all got $150 Amazon gift cards this year at work. That better not be all we get lol.


This could all be solved a lot more easily if every server minted each post using a Proof of Work transaction against a centralised BlockCha… sound of gunshot

lmao


I don’t believe Jerboa has a NSFW checkbox, if that’s what you’re using. The web app definitely has it.


The button with the overlapping squares in the web app is the cross-posting button.


Can we have government-subsidized healthcare? No that’s socialism How about $500 billion to defense contractors? Sure lol

I can’t believe most americans think this is acceptable


ActivityPub question
Someone on Mastodon was saying that if you boost someone's post and are federated with a server that the OP has defederated, that people on the defederated instance can now see the post since someone in their federation boosted it. This doesn't sound right, at least because of the way Lemmy works. I though that the post would be hidden from anyone on the defederated instance because it originated from an instance that blocked it. Anybody know how this would work?
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Question for mods/admins of any instance
Do brand new users that sign up to your instance start using it right away after approval? I've approved a pretty decent amount of new accounts over the months and a lot of them have never posted or commented. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.
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That’s odd. Are you on mobile? Also, it would fit best in !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml


Yeah, I get it. I feel like it’s a kind of important point in history for us fedizens though because a direct byproduct of him screwing twitter up is introducing all the non-fedizens to migrate to a FOSS alternative. And now that I’m following people on mastodon I gotta say it’s super entertaining.





Can anybody point me in the right direction on why postgres would take this much CPU sometimes?
I noticed my Lemmy server's CPU sometimes spikes for unknown reasons. Here are some screenshots of the usage. It seems to be a postgres SELECT process and some parallel worker processes causing this. ![](https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/bb192745-b6ba-4ad4-8bf5-fecc798163f7.png) ![](https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/8fd03bf4-3602-429d-8f18-41060b24e4b2.png)
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He’s gonna start combining ideas: “Let’s take all the verified people, and dig a big tunnel, and put them in the tunnel, and…”


Yeah, I saw that right as I was about to search for something lol. Damn. I guess it was possible for trolls to find victims.



You should also be aware of heapoverflow.ml for programming questions. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look terribly active at the moment.


For hosting it? I’m sure Linode would be sufficient.


I don’t think anyone would have a problem with it as long as you post in a related community.


I think I found out what was happening. I was trying to fetch posts that had federated from a different Lemmy instance to my lemmy instance and then I was searching using that post URL instead of the original URL. It was this one https://midwest.social/post/326295.

I guess the post has to have originated from the instance that I’m searching with or it won’t return anything.


OP may just be excited because of the influx of user to a FOSS twitter alternative.


Unable to fetch posts on my instance from mastodon
I set up a mastodon instance and I'd like to interact with my lemmy instance (midwest.social) from it. Looking at the logs whenever I query a post, it returns a 200 OK with no data, but if I query a post on lemmy.ml it returns data like it should. I must have something configured wrong on my lemmy server. Here is the log for a query: ``` Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: NotFound lemmy_1 | 0: lemmy_apub::http::post::get_apub_post lemmy_1 | at crates/apub/src/http/post.rs:20 lemmy_1 | 1: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request lemmy_1 | with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=midwest.social http.target=/post/326295 otel.kind="server" request_id=1b0dce53-f66f-4f1d-9d6a-212de403f62a http.status_code=404 otel.status_code="OK" ```
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Hmm, might reconsider then, although the memory maxes out at 16, not 8 according to the specs. I didn’t think the TrueNAS would be that heavy since it’s not proprietary.


Asustor lockerstor Gen 2. If I have to upgrade the ram I will but I think 4GB is enough for what I’ll be doing.



[Question] about NAS operating system
I bought a 2 bay NAS and I plan to flash it with the TrueNAS operating system. As I was reading the installation instructions I came across a section that said one of the 2 drives will have to contain the boot/UEFI partition, and can therefore be used for nothing else. Am I reading this correctly? I have 2 4TB HDDs that I plan on using in both bays and I'll have to use the entirety of one of those bays just to hold a small boot partition and nothing else? There are also 4 slots available for M.2 NVMe SSDs so I'm looking at using a small SSD for my boot partition there if this is true. My apologies if this is a dumb question as I'm kind of new to this stuff.
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Questions about Jellyfin
I remember reading a post about someone setting up Jellyfin and some other software and essentially just waiting around a few days after shows come out and they end up being available in their media library. Like, some kind of pirating software that just grabs the right media. Is this a thing or am I misremembering?
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Had me in the first half not gonna lie


Finally, an article that mentions the Fediverse in regards to alternatives for social media. I remember thinking the same things when I read that Pew article a couple of weeks ago.


I keep forgetting to look into that







Storage size on instance servers
I recently had to expand my instance's storage size from 25 GB to 50 GB because it was out of space. How much storage do you all use for your instances? I'm a little surprised that it ran out of space as my instance isn't heavily used. Am I doing something wrong? I prune all the unused docker images, so it's not that.
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What thoughts go through your head when you hear someone refer to left-leaning individuals or policies as “liberal”?
Whenever I hear someone use liberal to describe someone or something that is left leaning I just get the sense that their politics are too US-based and kind of roll my eyes because that's not really what liberal means. Is this an appropriate reaction or should I get off my high horse?
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What should I do with a spare Pixel?
I recently bought a new phone, so my old phone, a Pixel 4 xl is now sitting around collecting dust. I thought it could be fun to install an actual non-Google Linux OS on it. Any suggestions?
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