New to Lemmy

Hi all. I've had an account here for awhile, and I thought it was about time I wrote an introduction.

I'm a Canadian, born in the west, grew up in the east. Politically I lean left, some days more so than others. I'm a strong believer in social justice. I believe in Canada having a strong social safety net, including universal basic income. I'm happy to pay my taxes.

You can find me on Mastodon @RandomCanuck@RandomCanuck@cosocial.ca. Also on Friendica. I'm a redditor too, but I mostly just graze and rarely post.

I run a small consulting business with my wife, and we've been doing that since 2000. I cut my teeth designing automated test equipment, and then control systems for automated assembly systems.

I've been a computer user since 1980, including Apple II+, IIe, III, Wang 2200, TRS-80, Commodore PET, a hand built 6502 micro, along with various Wintel PCs, a Mac SE30, Performa, Mac II, various iMacs MacBook Pros, and a MacBook Air, and Raspberry Pi.

I'm a long time staffer to a pack of toy poodles, starting in 1994. I love motorcycles, fast cars, hiking, camping and canoeing. Sci-Fi fan, most recently of the Murderbot series and Cory Doctorow’s books. I also read a lot of mysteries, history, and philosophy. Agnostic religiously, scienctific philosophically. Systems thinker. Writer.

Technical standards developer for CSA, IEC, IEEE, and ISO.

#Canadian #Introduction #nerd #engineering #writing #reading #science #dogs #computing

Thoughts on features to boost intent for posting more?

Like a karma system of that other forum website.

I currently miss a point system to motivate me that shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting. There's no system to create such feedback currently on Lemmy.

Are there statements by the creators of this platform about that?

See big red box on image attached (collapse as in the feature on reddit)

There is also a container feature already. I marked it at the bottom of attached image with a smaller red box

I know you can use a single login to subscribe to communities from other servers, but are there any advantages to having an account on each server compared to having a single account connected to communities on other servers?

It was great fun

Ok, so I am a U.S. researcher who has ended up here bc of censorship issues on other platforms.

I understand why rules for no self promotion exist in general, but typically I would consider that to be things like promoting a business or anything with a paywall or with the goal to get more attention for self vs the goal to spread information that is being suppressed.

I started writing a blog on ghost and putting some information together to raise awareness about science and other policy disinformation. Would sharing the information or graphics from the blog still be self promotion since it's my own blog

If it is self promotion, are there any good communities where this kind of things is ok to share?

I checked the info in the sidebar, but the relevant part of the guide links to a page that is still under construction.

I just want to hide content in @lemmynsfw.com from showing up on my global feed. I like tiddies as much as the next guy, but that's why I have the other account, y'know.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39965994

• !youshouldknow@lemmy.world for the post with the uBlock filters
• !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for general guidance
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for the active communities
• https://lemmy.zip/ with their latest report: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677

Not new to Lemmy, just heard that this was a support community so I'm here!

I've been seeing a lot of folks share a lot of important, and insightful posts. That's not how mine looks.

Lemmings, please give me communities that are filled with silly, low effort posts — I'd appreciate it!

Reposting from https://lemmy.world/post/24545370 (and another post today: https://lemmy.ca/post/40657272)

Some other people had suggestions for other apps (such as Voyager) having built-in keyword filters, feel free to have a look at the original post

Why YSK: Certain topics are stressful and tend to spread all over the site, including to unrelated communities. Blocking communities can be overkill and ineffective, and likewise for blocking individual users.

To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the 'My filters' tab, and add this filter:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

For example:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)

Then apply the changes and reload any open tabs, and all posts which contain any of your filtered words will simply not show up.

You'll have to change "lemmy.world" at the start to whatever your actual instance is. You can filter as many or as few words as you want, just keep the / at the start, the /i at the end, and separate words with | pipes. What's actually being filtered is a case-insensitive regex, if you want to get fancy with it.

Here are equivalent filters for reddit and Ars Technica:

reddit.com##div.thing[data-context="listing"]:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
arstechnica.com##:not(:not(head>title:has-text(/^Ars Technica/))) article:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
arstechnica.com##:not(:not(head>title:has-text(/Serving the Technologist/))) article:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi|doge|maga/i)

As a disclaimer, I made these myself, and I'm not particularly familiar with creating uBlock Origin filters. There may be better ways to do this. Also the reddit one is specific to old.reddit.com, and the lemmy filter is made to work with the default lemmy.world web UI and may not work on other UIs without tinkering.

Yes, I know I'm just hiding my head in the sand

is it a complicated process? why do some instances support several alternative frontends while others don't?

Hit me with your best recommendations! Also looking for plant ID, non-drug related mushroom stuff, birding, and dog pictures. Thanks in advance.

How old does my account have to be before I can post photos?

I know this will take some time to get used to, but I am using the Voyager app. I am confused on what local communities in comparison to the federate communities.

I’m also not sure why there are so many different apps for Lemmy because now I feel like I should be checking them all out, but Voyager is very similar to Apollo for Reddit so I feel most comfortable here.

What is an instance?

And how long will I be able to share photos? Since my account is one day old I can’t upload any pictures.

I’ll have more questions, but I can’t think of them right now, thanks in advance!

On Reddit, Reddit would randomly pick 50/100 communities from which it fills your home feed. Your other subscriptions do not matter until Reddit decides to refresh the list of subs its pulling from.

In theory, if you're subscribed to a bunch of inactive subreddits, your home feed is potentially being held back by these (since, as opposed to Reddit grabbing posts from 50 active communities, it's only grabbing posts from - say - 30 active communities with the remaining 20 being inactive and taking up the spot of your other active subscriptions).

On Lemmy, is there any downside to retaining subscriptions to inactive communities?

I'm new to Lemmy and still learning about all this fediverse stuff. Is there a way to search for Canadian-specific communities?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39047333

Example of a user not being able to see posts because of incorrect language settings configuration: https://feddit.org/post/8656952

This has been fixed in version 0.19.9, but if your instance is running an older version that that, make sure to check that in your account language settings (the checklist, not the interface language):

• all the languages you speak are selected (for instance, Undetermined and English)
• or that you don't have anything selected (in that case, you are going to see all the languages)

Selecting a language is done by Ctrl + Click on a desktop

As we expect another influx of users from the discussion of paywalled subreddits, welcome to everyone who has recently joined or is actively trying to join Lemmy! Feel free to introduce yourself or talk about your first impressions.

Okay, so first I thought that I had subscribed to a few communities from different servers and they weren't showing up in my feed. But apparently I never subscribed to them and seem unable to do so.

Here's what's happening: I go to a different instance and browse their communities. When I want to select one and tap "Subscribe" I'm asked to enter my home instance and then am redirected there, it says "Community federated!" but then a completely different community (from the instance I was browsing before) is shown below that with a "subscribe" button. No matter how often I try, I'm never directed to the community that I wanted to subscribe to.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca

put yours in the comments if you want, here's some that I've thought of

1. to separate two lines, you need a full empty line between them, otherwise they will combine into one line. (this is not always required, check your preview)

any more empty lines will be squashed down to one, though zero width spaces can help with this

line 1

line 2

2. you can make spoiler dropdowns that don't have any text next to the arrow by using a zero-width space instead of the second 'spoiler' text

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3. you can place images next to text to make pseudo-emojis, just make sure they are small so that they are a similar size to the text

4. you can embed things other than images: gifs, audio, videos, etc

whether you can actually upload them may depend on your instance, but you can use hosting websites to do this as well, just make sure the text is formatted correctly

![](https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/6/60/Demoman_cheers03.wav) gives you

5. it's a good idea to read the instance rules of whatever community you're posting to, as well as the rules of the community itself. lemmy's decentralized nature makes it a lot easier to miss out on instance rules

6. pasting a link with text highlighted will turn that text into a link label, this is different from other social medias that just replace the text outright (this includes other links, which can be annoying)

7. on a similar thread to the above tip, you can use link labels to make links that go to a different place than where they say they go, this can be used for epic pranks or secrets

[example.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) appears as example.com

This is copy-and-pasted from the removed post on c/piracy

I think the post being removed was dumb but to be fair I did violate the rules there