Yes that’s the charme of it, just like the player character you are thrown into this strange, brutal world and have to figure out how to survive. The beginning is difficult, but that makes it all the more satisfying later in the game when you actually become powerful.

Regarding mods, you should definitely get one for improved inventory, and there’s also a DirectX 11 mod for better graphics.

Gothic 1 and 2 (from 2001 and 2002 respectively) are still some of the best games I ever played. There is also a very active modding community, and some mods are even much better than the original game.

When you view the global post listing from all communities, it shouldnt display posts in languages that you dont speak. Similarly it shouldnt be possible to make a post in Danish or Polish in a German community. With Lemmy 1.0 there will be automatic language detection available so you wont have to specify it manually for each comment. And translations could be implemented using Libretranslate (selfhosted).

Of course its possible, afaik Piefed uses Libretranslate for this. So the same would work for Lemmy, someone just needs to find the time to implement it.

The devs for desktop Syncthing were different from the Syncthing-Android devs. There was some collaboration but in the end the development was mostly separate. Source: I made syncthing-android.

What you should do as a mod is set the allowed languages in the community settings. Then people wont be able to post in other languages. Though I realize that the UI for this isnt so good for now.

Not sure what you mean by “advanced caching”. There is some basic caching for data which rarely or never changes, for example most things in /api/v3/site. But other data like post listings change a lot, so caching is not an option and instead its a matter of optimizing the sql queries (using the right indexes, reducing the number of joins, making benchmarks and looking at query plans).

Here is an issue on this topic: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5555

That is correct, and this happens to be another one of the issues which is already fixed for version 1.0. Basically for each ban we also store which instance it’s associated with, which is shown in the modlog and the new mod action notifications. If you’re interested I can link you the PR.

Notifications for mod actions are already implemented for Lemmy 1.0. Mod mail would take a lot of work to implement, and we have plenty of other things to work on. Being able to view your own removed posts makes sense, will note that down.

What’s wrong with instance bans on Lemmy?

Python is an interpreted language, which is fundamentally always slower than a compiled language like Rust. However the main performance bottleneck are actually sql queries, and I believe we make a lot more effort to optimize them compared to Piefed.

Afaik lemmy.world doesn’t have image proxying enabled, so your browser/app has to connect to other servers to load images. If you use an instance which has this enabled it’s probably faster.

At some point in the future I will also have time to implement community migration for Lemmy. In theory it’s not so complicated, but there are lots of other things to do.

We are close to releasing a first beta version for 1.0. Admins who are adventurous can already upgrade their instance to that. The final release will take longer though, with bug fixing, performance optimisations and general polishing.

Ads dont really work with federation, because you could simply access the content from another instance which doesnt have ads. Even if ads are directly encoded in the video file, it wouldnt be so hard to add something like sponsorblock to a Peertube instance.

It seems to me that our only chance is to wait for commercial platforms to enshittify and destroy themselves, because we can never compete with the amount of money and resources they have available.

EU officials are, incidentally, exempt from chat monitoring – which is quite convenient for someone like von der Leyen. Their communication is explicitly NOT to be monitored. The mere fact that those who drafted this law don’t want it to apply to them tells you everything you need to know about it.

https://x.com/martinsonneborn/status/1995182586612609241

Then how do you expect the problem to get fixed? Do you think I’m a mind reader?

Did you open a bug report?

Lemmy supports federation with Peertube since a long time.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2244

Seems like fetching the post listing from Peertube is broken, but you can fetch individual videos by url. Also if you follow a Peertube channel new videos will automatically be federated and show in your feed. If you encounter such problems please open an issue, we cant fix bugs that we are unaware of.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6195