It makes sense, all the posts I find from hexbear are a couple of months old. It is a bit annoying, because when I hit explore in Voyager and sort by size, thalf of the communities are from hexbear… Maybe @[email protected] has an idea why it behaves like this?

I can access hexbear communities, at https://sh.itjust.works/instances only test.hexbear.net is listed which leads to 502 anyway. Am I doing something wrong?

Somehow I can’t block it using Voyager, the only instance appearing is test.hexbear.net. Any idea why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50501_movement

fd seems to be nice and I hate the syntax of find. However I only ever use it for one thing - searching a file recursively, often with a wildcard for files with a certain extension, that’s it. I guess I could do that with an alias or a small script as well…

Cool 😎

Instances that disagree with being found in search engines are not shown. Instance admins can configure their robots.txt by adding lemmy-search. All other instances can theoretically be found. I think their priority depends on the laws of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This probably means that a post on myownlemmy1337 that is federated with lemmy.world, will be found as a post on lemmy.world.

So, if Lemmy was very famouse, I guess it’s possible to get pages over pages with the same result from different instances. However search engines usually have a way to exclude “similar” results.

For voyager it may be possible, they do not want to be found, I don’t know about this though. You could add site:vger.app to your search prompt for testing this.

It seems like the other two tools only report about 49k MAU, any idea why?

Absolutely. Wanted to try out the famous Python management tool UV last week, installation instruction is like this:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Yeah, no thank you.

True, I was looking from the perspective of lemmy. But I think that’s fair, as the fediverse is not as federated as it pretends to be. For Lemmy it’s about 1,000 servers. I guess many of them are singles person instances, but that comes from my subjective feeling and can be bullshit ;)

I don’t know about the “tens of thousands of servers” in the Fediverse. For now, it’s pretty easy to keep an overview. I also do not think the number of servers will scale linearly with the user base. Most people may choose a server randomly, but after a while in the Fediverse you will find your instance. Take feddit.org as an example - they have a charitable organization behind then, the “Fediverse foundation”. People like that instance because of the terms it operates under, and they do their thing. Server admins are not necessarily random people, and I don’t think coordination happens via hash tags.

Here people will interact with most of your comments and they won’t disappear in the void. Welcome to Lemmy!

Are you telling me your user name is usually taken when registering for a new service, AoxoMoxoA?

Nice to see how Mint slowly overtook Ubuntu in 2024! Didn’t know Flatpak was a distro though

Well I guess this is only the domain and their server us hosted elsewhere. But good point.

I often played with the thought of buying a fair phone, but in the end it’s just too expensive for me. I usually buy used devices for about 150€ from eBay and flash a custom ROM to get rid of google. If I can use that phone for 3 years I am happy. This way I am doing something for the environment and do not support mining of critical minerals in Congo etc.
But yeah, apart from Fair phone almost all devices are very, very hard to repair on purpose, and you need a lot of tools and a but of luck ;)

Happy cake day!

I just changed the USB port of my Motorola because it was broken AF. I always had to tweak around for 5 minutes to get the cable stable enough for loading, it sucked. I bought the spare part for 17,90€ on eBay. It was a struggle removing the back cover, but now I have a mobile for another 2 years!

When I left university, which is like 6 years ago, we used distilled water. As tap water does not usually have a pH of 7 but can vary between 6.5 and 9 (depending on location), it makes absolutely no sense for me to use it for rinsing. However this may depend on your device and application, as for household level like measuring plant water or something tap water could be sufficient.

I used eternity for a long while, but it is buggy and development is slow (if not dead?). So I switched to the Voyager android app and never looked back.