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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Trying to make a doc for migrants. Just the overview. Got the cold shoulder from one of the small web guys equating Lemmy to heroine. Essentially 'either do it like me or you are wrong'

Same as it ever was online.

As for me? Missing a few communities. Kinda head scratching at things over all, but it could be worse.

Both want to make a few instances and have no energy to babysit them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

There's a few communities I'm missing still, mostly shitpost and fan fiction subs. I'd like to start them but I'm still not sure of my own footing yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I had initially checked it out but seeing that there were so few posts and all over a year old was a little disheartening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We call them "instances" round here. A sub is my mom according to my friend

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

An instance is not the same as a community/sub.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

Working on it. Little lonely since most of communities from reddit don’t seem to be here but still searching so we’ll see.

Definitely feeling like I need to install linux on my mac though, perhaps as some sort of initiation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The peer pressure (and stupid broken updates from MS) finally got me to install linux about 8mos into using lemmy. It's pretty great, though - wish I'd done it sooner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Went with mint right after the announcement of tpm 2.0 since I'm running an off lease decade old office box.

What're you running?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't recommend linux on a mac unless it's an old model (like ~2012)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

M1 not old enough? I can already feel Apple trying to kill it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There's Asahi linux for M1 but the dev that runs it is a bit of a nutter. Also apple software just works best with its hardware (until the planned obsolesence of your hardware happens and suddenly nothing works).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well that saves me a bit of work for now then. I’ve got all my old phones/ipads though so perhaps it’s time to try tinkering with things there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

There are a few tools like lima that let you play around with Ubuntu from macOS if you are still curious. Also an official one from Canonical (company behind Ubuntu linux) whose name I forget now that does a similar thing. Essentially you get a user friendly linux VM to play around with.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

When I joined I felt like I moved to a village after living in a metropolis. There's positives and negatives to that, but in the end Lemmy satisfies my doomscrolling needs so I'm never coming back to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

When you need to doomscroll.
Why not scroll wikipedia?

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Oh wow I love that!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I encourage you to create them and foster them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Let me get through the welcome newcomers stuff first! :)

[–] Punchshark 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Definitely better at navigating this week than last

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Good to hear!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 22 hours ago

Enjoying it. I'm loving the filters I can use to limit some of the political spam.

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