It’s in the Lemmy docs. You need to have federation enabled, https, a banner image, description set, and maybe something else.

Dude, okay I’m done. I didn’t even insult you, in fact I rewrote that “wall of text” multiple times to try to explain my opinion as neutrally as I could. I’ve tried in honest faith to try to explain my point of view to you multiple times, and I don’t know how else to explain it.

Lol okay dude, sure, my fragility. I run a server for myself and a few others, I pay out of pocket for it, we here don’t owe you anything.

I don’t know why you people keep suggesting people do something that’s not within their interest & use case.

I’m not here to post stuff, that’s the opposite of what I want

Which I see that you comment a lot, which is great, it seems like you enjoy it here. Sure I’d like to see more posts, so I post a lot, and that drives up engagement. I’ve nurtured a few little communities that have grown steadily since I started them, but you don’t just get that from being upset that there’s not enough content. If you want more communities/posts around topics, then here you need to be the one post the stuff about it. So why so resistant to posting?

It’s honestly easy, it was a mental block for me at first but it’s just if you see an article/story about a topic you like, just post it to a community that applies. I started posting youtube vids that I thought were interesting. If there’s not a community for your topic work with your admins to create one.

You’re absolutely right that we’re tiny, we don’t have a critical mass - which is why I tell anyone who complains that there isn’t enough content that we don’t have the luxury of lurking here. If you want to be a part of building this platform then do your part. If you don’t want to help build it, then at least for god’s sake don’t just complain here that there’s not enough content to admins who run their servers for free when you can’t even be bothered to post. So I guess that’s probably what you’re picking up on.

So it’s not fragility - it’s frustration. Frustration that we have devs who built these platforms (for mostly free), and admins who pay out of pocket to run them, and in result we get users who are upset they might need to just occasionally post to help keep engagment up. I mean, what more do you want from us? I pay monthly to keep my servers up, fedia I’m sure pays hundreds a month, Lemmy.World here probably into the thousands, and people want to complain that they just want to lurk and that we don’t provide enough content. Well, then start posting!

Don’t know why people come here and get upset that we haven’t provided enough free content.

And you are welcome to be part of adding to the critical mass by posting, but for lurkers this place is going to be empty for a very long time.

Well then I can tell you you’re in the wrong place. There aren’t algorithms. There aren’t bots. Just people like me posting. It is run by and for individuals, and all posts are made by individuals. If you don’t want to post then you are the one to be mad at for not enough content

Disagree. I use subscribed and I get plenty of content, a couple hours worth a day. You may just be used to reddits firehose. If there’s a missing community, you can always create it and start posting consistently

Which would make sense if the ban was ever about children. Reading the ban though, shows it was about control, and surveillance, under the guise of saving the children. Edit: I was talking about the US ban, but tbh sounds like AU’s is following suit

Ultra book is not a gimmick. Foldable phones are NOT a gimmick. Touchscreen laptops ARE NOT gimmicks. Dear God why does no one listen to us when we say our “features” aren’t gimmicks!?

That’s not the point I was making. If you’re an instance owner then yes you should abide by the laws, but most are individuals, and I’ll say I had to learn a lot hosting my own. I try to be in full compliance, but I say try because you’re asking one guy who knows how to run a server legal questions. If someone asked me to delete it I would, but you’re dealing with thousands of server owners. I wouldn’t bet that everyone will follow your request.

As for laws, well, no also. Say a 3 letter agency in the US sets up a server listening to you. They’re not in the EU at all. You send a gdpr takedown request. The listening server can legally ignore this. You sent them data, it’s outside of the jurisdiction of the gdpr, they don’t host anything. So no. I get your sentiment, but you’re quite literally blasting comments out to everyone who will listen, this is not a private space, this is as open as it gets.

You have a very “this is the way it should work” thought process, but I’m here telling you that’s in theory only. In practice anyone will be listening to anything, and you should not treat Lemmy or the fediverse as private. If you want private, use matrix.

By using the fediverse you blast that comment out to any server hosted anywhere in the world hosted by anyone. Even if an instance is hosted in one of those countries it would have to be following and enforced, and you would have to follow up with every server you sent it to and verify (somehow, remember they don’t need to actually have a public frontend) that your comment was deleted.

So, no. I would not ever assume that on the fediverse. Free and open means completely free and completely open. It’s like the 90s here, there’s no such thing as delete.

Why is this so shocking to the corporate owners? Most people who want a smart phone have one.

No. And simply put, this is because of the nature of the fediverse. You lost something then it’s on anyone listening’s server. Lemmy or otherwise. Now, when you delete you send a delete request to all of those servers too.

Here’s the thing. What if someone forks Lemmy or just has their own server type. They don’t HAVE to implement delete. It could still be there. Maybe it’s hidden, but it’s there.

Now assume any government or corp is listening to the fediverse.

So no. We’re open, no one can take us down, but, know that anyone can listen, and they can do whatever they want

Yup, just one of those posts that could of course work in either

checks the community to make sure I’m in programmer humor

Yeah that checks out

High school girlfriend was a bit intense and told me she wanted me to marry her and that she wanted children. I was 16 at the time. I was terrified by that, because you know, 16, and she got mad at my nervousness. She dumped me a week later and wouldn’t you know it, married less than a year out of high school with now 3 kids.

I went on to get my degree, move far far away, get a much better job and a much better partner. I think back to who I would have been if teenage me had let myself be pressured into that. Small town, working at the gas station or pizza joint, supporting 3 kids…

Is it dead? People are leaving but I don’t think it’s dead… Yet

Exactly. It was a douche and a turd sandwich. Refusing to vote because “they’re a turd sandwich” is simply saying “I’m okay with the douche”. It’s a 2 party system. There are no good candidates. Only one that’s marginally better than the other. Not voting is tacitly voting for the worst one.