reddit and twitter (suposedly) jacked up their API prices because of data scrapers, what could lemmy to do try to stop them?

i dont think we can do anything

From what i see programming.dev still did not decided our stance

UPDATE: seems like this has been fixed with the update to 0.18.1 https://programming.dev/instances

I can see their posts so I know they aren't actually banned

https://programming.dev/instances

looks like maybe they had their domain name set with the https:// in it and that was breaking stuff? has this been fixed in the Lemmy code yet? we shouldn't have to manually ban invalid domain names

It's weird how the markdown formatting bits (such as ### in a heading) appear in previews of posts. I don't have time to research it right now, but I'm guessing that's a known issue waiting to be fixed by someone.

Edit: Trying to add a screenshot to show what I'm talking about, but uploading images doesn't seem to be working. I tried 2 clients and the mobile web.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/428156

Discovered from this Hacker News post:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610884

I'm not suggesting anything, just want to know what do you think.

Here is a link if someone don't know what Meta's Threads is: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

Update: I can subscribe from a post, but not the community main page.

Old Post:

I had no trouble subscribing to this mader.xyz community:

https://programming.dev/c/science_memes@mander.xyz

But when I went to other communities on mander, the subscribe button was turned into plain text and I could not click it:

https://programming.dev/c/science@mander.xyz

Does anyone have any explanation why? Does mander.xyz limit programming.dev accounts to one subscription?

There are tons of Rust communities spread on multiple instances. Is the expectation that users interested in rust should just subscribe to all of these? Is there a community which aggregates posts from all rust communities together into one?

I like having the top bar available at all times (mainly to see notifications), so I made this userstyle. If you're on programming.dev, it should come up with the stylus extension, otherwise you can install it from the link

Is it possible to create new Communities on programming.dev? I would like to embrace the full lemmy experience and create a community to contribute to

Server is going to go down for an upgrade to increase capacity at 6 UTC. This could take up to 30 minutes

Looks like Lemmy Explorer added some neat new features for introspecting individual instances, such as instance uptime, version history, and user growth. In particular, I like how it can list all instance communities, including banners, without pagination:

• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/programming.dev/communities

You can compare our stats from the post's link with other in the fediverse. For example:

• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world
• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/beehaw.org
• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemm.ee

Tucked away in the hamburger menu, there's also an "Network Inspector" tab to overview stats for all instances, including distribution of instance versions, as well as suspicious instances.

• https://lemmyverse.net/inspect

You can check out the sites development here:

• https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer

If you're familiar with the topic of awesome lists on GitHub, then you should know that there is a community driven list just for Lemmy, including a convenient aggregation of links to instances, alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc.

Trying to attach an image to a post gives me a SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data error. Is this a me issue, this instance issue or a global lemmy problem?

New to the instance. Had a couple good days using Connect for Lemmy on Android before I started getting a message that the server is "undergoing maintenance", but the web version loads fine after a Cloudflare challenge. I assume this is what's causing the issue. Am I missing something? Is there some way to allow app traffic? Anybody else experiencing this?

Compare browsing on this instance

https://programming.dev/c/technology@beehaw.org?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

vs

https://beehaw.org/c/technology?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

especially the post "Site to track Subreddit’s as they go dark" which was posted 21 days ago, still showing up at the top of New on this instance even above newer posts, but beehaw has all new posts instead

and I am subscribed to that community so it should be federated too

I think part of the issue might be because that post is deleted? or at least the permalink for it doesn't work

but also I just manually searched for https://vlemmy.net/post/430910 so now it shows up but still below the bugged post, but it shouldn't have needed a search to federate that post manually

I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

Hey everyone! Its been a week since I opened the icon poll so here are the results of what people voted for

As a reminder voting is handled by single transferable vote so every round the lowest voted entry is eliminated and the next choices of the people who chose that option is given points. If a person didnt rank all of the entries and doesnt have a next choice no other option gets their points

Icon Style

The icon style vote had 58 votes submitted total

Heres the final graph:

Round one is all of the first choice votes for the people who voted. For round two no unified style was eliminated and the votes were spread to other options. For round three general unified same col was eliminated and for round four all unified same color was eliminated

The overall winning option was All unified diff colors, winning with 36 final votes compared to general unified diff colors' 16 (and having by far the most first choice votes)

Ill be switching some of the communities (ones I made the icon for) over to the new style and new communities in the instance will be created with an icon in the style. Community mods though have the final say in what their community icon looks like and can choose not to follow this result if they want

Make sure to follow the branding guidelines of your programming language, engine, etc. Some require attribution if you edit the logo, some dont allow logo modifications, some dont have a default logo, etc.

If your language, etc. doesnt allow icon modifications you can do the same icon style but instead of a gradient logo you just have the logo itself, you can make a new logo for your community, or you can just have that logo

Icon Shape

The default icon shape poll had 37 total votes and was handled in the same format as the icon style

Pentagon was eliminated first and then squircle was eliminated

The final result was circle winning with 23 final votes compared to hexagon's 14

Community icons will have a circle shape in the instance by default but I will be pushing out a change eventually to allow toggling between different shapes for yourself for the communities on web

Thanks everyone for voting! You should see icons start to change in the instance soon

The sidebar for our instance has a broken link for programming.dev - it links to https://programming.dev/programming.dev

Good day, I have some really hard time getting my gpu passed through to a vm, my current host is linux mint. The bios setting is fine, but for some reason I get a black screen every time the vm starts.

Im not sure if the card itself have limitations. Just want to confirm wether I am wasting my time on this card?

Im basically try to do a single gpu passthrough with scripts that will release gpu from host and pass through to vm, till the vm is shut down, then the host have control over the gpu again.

Just wanted to make another quick post just in case someone missed the other one

The icon poll to determine the recommended icon style for the instance is going to end tonight in around 11 hours

You can see the original post here https://programming.dev/post/190520 and make sure to dm me with the options ranked based on your preference if you want to vote (you can click on my name and then you can send a message through lemmy using the send message button that shows up in my profile)

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/314158

Announcement

The bot I announced in this thread is now ready for a limited beta release.

You can see an example summary it wrote here.

How to Use AutoTLDR

• Just mention it ("@" + "AutoTLDR") in a comment or post, and it will generate a summary for you.
• If mentioned in a comment, it will try to summarize the parent comment, but if there is no parent comment, it will summarize the post itself.
• If the parent comment contains a link, or if the post is a link post, it will summarize the content at that link.
• If there is no link, it will summarize the text of the comment or post itself.
• 🔒 If you include the #nobot hashtag in your profile, it will not summarize anything posted by you.

Beta limitations

• The bot only works in the !auai@programming.dev community.
• It is limited to 100 summaries per day.

How to try it

• If you want to test the bot, write a long comment, or include a link in a comment in this thread, and then, in a reply comment, mention the bot.
• Feel free to test it and try to break it in this thread. Please report any weird behavior you encounter in a PM to me (NOT the bot).
• You can also use it for its designated purpose anywhere in the AUAI community.

From here the stats are far lower than viewing from lemmy.world. is it just me?

I've never had any problems viewing other Lemmy instances on mobile but this one is completely unusable. Even if you ignore the broken layout you can't even sign in. Is this a known issue from whatever frontend this community is using? Any word on when it might be fixed?

Our instance was highlighted in the video above, with the exact timestamp here. It's a decent introduction for those migrating from Reddit; although it would've been helpful to showcase more of the registration process, such as creating an account, searching for and subscribing to communities, and navigating ones feed in general. E.g. using online indexes such as these:

• https://sub.rehab
• https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Still, it's hard not to appreciate the optimistic exposure. Hopefully moderation tooling and content archives will improve as the software and communities supporting the Fediverse grow and mature.