When you tinker and debug something on windows, you usually have little idea of what went wrong and can derive very little from the experience. At least that was the case back when I still used windows, in the XP and vista days.

I don’t think that is completely fair, I feel like the reason is more that on Linux no easy to follow “solutions” to as many problems as on Windows exist. When you have a problem on Linux you most of the time have to dive deeply into the technical details. On windows it’s often enough to search for a solution on the internet and follow the first tutorial (not the stupid SEO garbage sites). And once whatever problem you had is gone you don’t go and try to understand why the solution worked.

That also really annoyed me a lot when I had to fix Windows problems for work, because I really like to understand why something is working or not. And after some research I actually found Sysinternals which are tools that help you dig deeper into Windows inner workings. There are also some wonderful videos on how to use those tools available by the author of those tools. And there are also books available both on how to troubleshoot with the tools and on how Windows internally works.

Edit: fiexd tyops ;)

It’s a really hard thing to decide and I’m not sure what the right thing to do is.

I feel like if the main goal is to make this instance as good as possible for local users making many small specific communities would be best.

But form how I understand lemmy that would also make it more annoying for people from other instances to get all programming related topics from here if they don’t want to leave their home instance. That would also include people that run their own private instances.

Although that my second point could be addressed if lemmy adds a “all” feed so that one could subscribe to all communities of an instance or untill that is available a automatic repost bot could be set up to collect all posts on an instance into one feed.

But I don’t really know what the best way would be just writing down my thoughts on the subject. I’m sure whatever way you go lemmy users will find a way to enjoy this instance and community!

I would start out allowing mostly everything programming related and only creating more specific communities once the posts for a specific topic start spamming this one.

All nice organization doesn’t help if the created communities are not used by anyone as the seem to small to be worth the bother. That’s at least how I think about it. Just leave it open for most posts until the need arises to split specific topics off.

If you are on a smaller instance you should probably ask the admin(s) if they are okay with something like this, it would put a lot of extra strain on the server and might overload small instances.

I like this idea, I’ve been thinking about running my own private instance but decided against it as I like the main feed with many different communities that larger instances offer.

Is there a copy or just a reference to the original instance?

My understanding is that the actual full size image is held just on the source instance, but that thumbnails are cached on other instances for a time.

But looking into the official documentation there seem to be json files missing and the descriptions are not completly clear: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html#post

And just looking around using inspect element to see the HTML source it seems that even the thumbnail is not cached for external directly hosted on lemmy image posts. But then again I also could the the preview of a image post earlier while the full size image was not visible as the hosting lemmy instance was offline.

Do non-US instances have to handle DMCA requests like US instance with european users have deal GDPR requests?

https://programming.dev

There is https://matrix.org/ but the video/voice isn’t as nice as discord.

That would be nice, but is at a whole other scale with bandwidth and storage space.

Although there is a fediverse alternative for Video Hosting: https://joinpeertube.org/

Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com> Audiobookshelf

I didn’t know that existed and now I love it and started up a docker container for it!

Thanks! :D