are manual additions allowed? our host’s security blocks some bot traffic and is currently not playing nicely with the stats crawler
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are manual additions allowed? our host’s security blocks some bot traffic and is currently not playing nicely with the stats crawler
this is my first real experience with wildfire haze and i gotta tell ya, not a fan
if you have a few members may as well keep it open, we all benefit from variety
oh awesome!
knuckles the echidna
that’s awesome, i’ll definitely have to visit. thanks!
I can tell you that the api itself can be found at instance.com/api/v3/, and that you can for example get recent posts with instance.com/api/v3/post/list, and you can replace post with community or comment to get the same, but I learned that much from error messages messing with lemmy-js-client. unfortunately i don’t think the raw http api is posted anywhere
I’m very envious of people who were able to grow up with BBSes. I caught the very tail end of the phpBB/MyBB days but this seems like a whole 'nother level. it’s nice to know they’re still kicking though- one of these days i’ll finally get a network cart and join the fray
i really want AR to take off but bigger devices with higher price tags is probably not the way
i’ve been saying we need a COBOL/CICS implementation of ActivityPub for YEARS and it’s always the same “where the hell am i supposed to get a 3270 in 2023” and “what do you mean i can’t shitpost during the batch window”
I think that was the goal behind the Lemmy-Lite frontend although it’s not being actively maintained sadly. but yeah, it can be done!
I think Lemmy already solved this problem way better than Mastodon has ever done. The flow of wanting to “join Lemmy” to there actually being a join-lemmy site, and then you click join a server and there’s a recommended one or two right at the top, with plenty of activity and are run well but not neccisarily the biggest kid on the block. i guess the one big stumbling point is that people might get stuck on joining versus hosting a server- maybe the instance list should be the front page of the site and if you know enough to want more info then you can go deeper, and if not you click the first one and go
i think there are still way too many issues, both functional and ethical, with large language models (“ai”) to be implemented at the scale it’s being done right now. for me the fediverse is a very welcome reprieve from corporate fad-chasing
Hearing about the Reddit api stuff over the horizon gave me the kick in the rear to finally do it, but I also just wanted to explore the fediverse more and do my part to help it grow. These days news about advancing technology is usually bad news, but the fediverse is a genuinely exciting idea that’s improving our lives and giving us more agency, with no real tradeoff. With Lemmy in particular hopefully only at the beginning of a massive user surge, this is for me at least the most exciting corner of the fediverse too
I help run a small instance, and we have:
!general@forum.dxcomplex.com !music@forum.dxcomplex.com !gaming@forum.dxcomplex.com !art@forum.dxcomplex.com !technology@forum.dxcomplex.com
These are very broad and have a lot of overlap with existing bigger communities, but the whole instance has a DIY and retro (not necesserily in the nostalgic way but in the never obsolete/reduce reuse way) slant to it if you dig that. we’d love to see some new faces!
it was a nice try but i just don’t see a market for a centralized mastodon clone
i wish i could remember who said it, but i saw a programmer say something like “chatgpt will now allow people to generate code instead of hiring programmers as long as they can clearly state the functionality they want. in other words, we’re safe”
conversely that’s one of my favorite things about Lemmy- the UI is so clutter-free and works seamlessly on mobile. it’s a very nice change of pace
definitely agree. I don’t control our host’s policy but i will pass that along. some bot traffic is allowed- we were on the join-lemmy site two days ago and i have a bot running this very minute- i think they’re still just trying to dial in the right balance between two much and not enough security