Yeah, as someone who is struggling to understand the concept of federation...this doesn't help me at all.

I guess what its saying, if you're on lemmy.world, you can't access content on lemmy.zip?

Just a reminder the Trump tried to organize a coup against Venezuela the last time he was in office (John Bolton, the national security advisor, said so in an interview)

It was a soft coup in the guise of that guy: Juan Guido.

He popped out of nowhere, months (maybe even a year) after Venezuela's elections, with the US supporting him as the legitimate winner. And because the US does it, so do all the puppet European states.

It was really confusing episode to me at the time. Only when Bolton's interview came out did it make sense to me.

Awww man...I mean its kind of a good idea, but on reddit I've had people reply to 10 year old posts.

Its a weirdly nice feeling.

But I do think we're in a data hoarding mentality and wish to preserve everything. I think it is important to let things go.

Edit: Though on the flipside, I do appreciate especially on technical posts, to go back and look up people's answers/solutions to questions I have.

Even if the answer is no longer valid, perhaps the person who provided the answer can offer an alternate solution.

So tangentially to the post, I guess the implied question is: when will Lemmy see another explosion in its userbase.

And to that...I don't know.

I've been trying to get away from reddit for a while and the problem with Lemmy is two fold

1. Very minor: it requires me to unblock cloudflare when I'm using noscript

2. More major, I still don't have an intuitive understanding of how lemmy works. On reddit if I was interested in knitting, going to old.reddit.com/r/knitting would be a good starting point.

I'm still confused about multiple instances, why bifurcate the community (are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).

I (perhaps foolishly) consider myself slightly above average in terms of tech literacy; if I'm this confuse I do wonder how are others going to fare.

Can you explain what you mean by added a quick exception?

I have the same problem on the same game due to the same hardware.

I came up with a bulky solution, which is to launch a script that disconnects my keyboard for a bit; just to allow enough time to launch DS2. Then it reconnects the keyboard so normal function is resumed

Can you expand on your solutions so I can see if its better?

If anyone is interested in my super basic scripts, let me know and I'll share them.

Thank you; thats a much better solution than mine.

And keyboard works fine if you need it also

Thanks, and again, keep up the good work!

Why would they do that? I'm unaware of internal issues in Lemmy at this point?

First, thank you for all the hard work you do.

Second, as someone still struggling to understand lemmy, one of the reasons I'm not a fan of old.lemmy.world is that I have to turn on cloudflare.

I have noscript running and I have cloudlflare blocked.

Your response implies otherwise that you don't have cloudflare running either.

So why am I always greeted with cloudflare when I visit old.lemmy.world?

Edit: Oh I misread the title. Its old.lemmy.today that you're talkinga bout, not old.lemmy.world.

My goof. Please ignore my post, but do take my gratitude.

Edit 2: So I went over to old.lemmy.today. It is tempting to switch. I like the default interface and it has content from a lot of places (on quick glance). One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of old.slrpnk.net is that I can't figure out how to access content from other instances. I seem tempted to switch.

No I totally understand the benefit of decentralization; however on the user end, I just want to consume content.

To that end, can I post on one knitting instance and that'll reach all knitting communities on Lemmy? How do I get the most engagement, which instance is the most popular

(and by the way, knitting was a random example on my end, but I am surprised that there aren't any active instances to what I would assume, is a fairly popular hobby).

I apologize, I have another follow up question (again all stemming from failing to grasp an intuitive understanding of federation) to point 1.

I'm fairly sure I was able to sign on lemmy.cafe and make a post in a community over there.

Basically I am trying to understand why was I able to do that there and not at slrpnk.net. Is it something unique to lemmy.cafe? Something unique to slrpnk.net?

That might have been true for some subreddits, but not all.

I've had people reply on pretty obscure subreddits years ago, on posts that were years old.

Hi I just wanted to follow up on something

Since last evening, I can't access old.lemmy.today (I can still access lemmy.today but that's not an interface I like).

Are you having bot issues again or is there something I messed up on my end?

Oh man thank you so much on both fronts (for your other post also)

Small simple things that make the entire thing so much easier

Cool thank you so much!

So just as an update, I checked both old.lemmy.today and lemmy.today; both seem to require an email address.

On lemmy.today is explicitly says email is required. On old.lemmy.today I tried fiddling around with various entries in the email field such as na, not_applicable, etc, but that didn't seem to work either.

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

Hi,

I'm sorry to bother you again (I waited a week before messaging you), but I wanted to check in on something. Last weekend, I wasn't able to access old.lemmy.world.

Around Tuesday or so, I could access the site, but I can't see any comments. I always get a 403 Forbidden error (with the words nginx at the bottom).

Is this is a problem on my end that I can fix?

Thanks for the suggestion.

That is down, as is old.slrpnk.net, I'll give old.lemmy.zip a shot and see what happens to it

I'm so sorry to constantly pester you, but I have another question.

I've been enjoying old.lemmy.today for the past few days. The biggest praise I can give it: I haven't missed reddit at all, and the smaller community actually makes it feel like an upgrade. Like the reddit of old.

But I wanted to make an account on Lemmy.today to make a post, however to register it seems I need an email address.

I don't want to give an email address. I could give a disposable one from one of those sites, but that would be obvious (to what it sounds like is a human curation process).

I know you said its to ward off bots, I'm wondering if its a temporary pause, or if its a permanent policy?

Hi,

I'm sorry to bother you again, but I have a question regarding old.slrpnk.net

Other instances using the old. format, they have an expand button. So you can quickly see text posts or an image and see if it worth engaging with further.

I haven't been able to see that in old.slrpnk.net. I'm wondering if there is a way to add it in the preferences or something that I'm missing?

Thanks and I apologize again for all the questions.