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Intro Guide to Lemmy (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by maltfield@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

I wrote a guide to help users with their migration to Lemmy

This guide will help new lemmy users find and subscribe-to (remote) lemmy ~~subreddits~~ communities

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submitted 1 year ago by maltfield@lemmy.ml to c/security@lemmy.ml

We just published our #WarrantCanary for 2023 H2 🕵️

https://buskill.in/canary-006/

Warrant Canaries are a means for us to (not) inform you of (not being) breached if served with a State-issued, secret subpoena (gag order) #infosec

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submitted 1 year ago by maltfield@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

We just published our #WarrantCanary for 2023 H2 🕵️

https://buskill.in/canary-006/

Warrant Canaries are a means for us to (not) inform you of (not being) breached if served with a State-issued, secret subpoena (gag order) #infosec

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't say porn, it says adult. The legend describes how it's determined

Adult "Yes" means there's no profanity filters or blocking of NSFW content. "No" means that there are profanity filters or NSFW content is not allowed.

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

how do you do that? Is there a guide anywhere for how to setup mastodon seeing lemmy or lemmy seeing mastodon?

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean like https://mastodon.world and https://lemmy.world? Do you have other examples?

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think at the top, just above the "Recommended" add:

For a more detailed comparison of Lemmy instances, see:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances">Awesome-Lemmy-Instances on GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://the-federation.info/platform/73">the-federation.info Lemmy Instances Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lemmymap.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmymap</a></li>
</ul>

After you create an account, you can find communites across all instances using <a href="https://browse.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmy Community Browser</a>

<h2>Recommended</h2>
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[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

oh shit I wish I knew that existed before XD

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm literally just asking the instance's API how many users it has:

Check the users_active_month field. How your instance calculates that is a question for the lemmy devs ;D

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see TypeScript and get scared. Personally, I do think that the join-lemmy.org/instances page should link to:

  1. My table comparison https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
  2. The Lemmy Community Browser (to find communities across all instances) https://browse.feddit.de/
  3. The Lemmy Map https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
  4. The federation's lemmy page (with another table comparing instances) https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Can anyone with TypeScript experience make this PR for us? Here's the relevant file:

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Because I had a bug. Fixing now :)

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm, I see community_creation_admin_only is set to false on the API. I'll look into this, thanks for letting me know :)

Edit: should be fixed now. Please let me know if you find any other issues :)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by maltfield@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

I created a repo on GitHub that has a table comparing all the known lemmy instances

Why?

When I joined lemmy, I had to join a few different instances before I realized that:

  1. Some instances didn't allow you to create new communities
  2. Some instances were setup with an allowlist so that you couldn't subscribe/participate with communities on (most) other instances
  3. Some instances disabled important features like downvotes
  4. Some instances have profanity filters or don't allow NSFW content

I couldn't find an easy way to see how each instance was configured, so I used lemmy-stats-crawler and GitHub actions to discover all the Lemmy Instances, query their API, and dump the information into a data table for quick at-a-glance comparison.

I hope this helps others with a smooth migration to lemmy. Enjoy :)

[-] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi Lemmy!

I make BusKill laptop kill cords that make your computer lock, shutdown, or self-destruct if the device is physically separated from you.

This protects your (encrypted) data from theft, which can be useful for digital nomads and cryptotraders working in cafes/coworking spaces. But our target audience is journalists, activists, and human rights workers in oppressive regimes.

Both the hardware and the software are open-source (CC-BY-SA, GPLv3). We manufacture the hardware with injection molding, but if you have a 3D-printer, then you can take a stab at our 3D-printable prototype.

...And apparently I'm doing (minor) contributions to lemmy these days too

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submitted 1 year ago by maltfield@lemmy.ml to c/3dprinting@lemmy.ml

This article is about a new 3d-printable prototype version of the BusKill cable.

The BusKill cable is a laptop kill cord. If you're still struggling to understand what is a BusKill cable and why you'd need a laptop kill cord, there's a 2-minute explainer video that makes this clear:

Enjoy and happy printing :)

maltfield

joined 1 year ago