Someone’s working on a browser extension to solve this painpoint - it sounds like it’ll work with multiple instances, and not just kbin.social: https://beehaw.org/post/493791

In my eyes - and I’m a 9+ year user - Reddit has shown that they do not care about their users or their users’ experiences on their platform and only want to exploit us for data and ads, and breaking my 3rd party app is the last straw. Assuming Alien Blue stops working for the last time on July 1st - and I’m pretty sure it will - I’ll be leaving permanently. I’ll be editing all my comments with a final message and deleting my account.

It is sad to lose communities, though it was already happening slowly with bots showing up more and more. I think our experiences online are more meaningful than we might think, and I’ve been feeling a bit of grief at what’s been a good part of my life for so long ending.

But, endings can lead to new beginnings and that’s what federation offers us, on Lemmy or Kbin. I think enough people will stick around here, and software will get updated, and kinks will get worked out, and if there’s ever another mass exodus once Reddit does something to drive off more casual users, we’ll have made a great place for them to land.

you too can download the json archive of Reddit from 2005 through 2022!

But agreed, a more curated version of the archive - or at least a tool to make searching the archive easy - would be super nice to have.

Appreciate all the work you do in keeping this instance running! I haven't donated yet, but plan to do so in July, in the hopes that operating costs settle out after the the final impact of 3rd party app closure on the 30th.

Building your own musical instrument sounds like a daunting project at the beginning but one with very satisfying results. :)

Not knowing much about marimbas or woodworking, I’m super curious about the actual hand-tuning process! Is it carefully trimming the boards down? And how much do the tubes (?) at the bottom affect the tuning vs the wood pieces on top?

Respectfully, I think it’s somewhat naive to think that we the users can make Reddit listen to us. They are a company operating in a capitalist system and as the CEO said, they are going to prioritize profits until they are profitable, and once they are profitable, they are going to keep prioritizing profits. I’d be pretty surprised if users were able to make enough of a dent in profits in 17 days that they forced Reddit’s hand.

I'm not super familiar with the Archive Team - what distinguishes this specific archiving effort from the dataset that PushShift archived? Is this primarily focusing on archiving specifically media (video, iamges), or comments/submissions in the time period since PushShift closed, or everything from the entire time period from 2005 onward?

This is a known issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008

hopefully will be updated soon!

Oh man, my partner made a somewhat popular weapon calculator spreadsheet for Elden Ring, and the number of random Google Sheets edit requests they received was.... quite a lot. (the instructions were right there for people to make a copy of the sheet to edit themselves! that's how all of these sheets calculators work!) 🤦

Wonderful piece of writing that takes the internet as a place for human connection so seriously; I almost teared up at the end. Thanks for sharing it with us!

That’s wild! Now I want to see what a beekeeper’s hive boxes look like during the middle of a solar eclipse. 🌝

Yeah, this is the distinction I usually make - beating the game is rolling the credits, finishing the story, what have you. Completing the game is doing all the side quests / koroks / enemy camps / content in the game.

I’m not seeing a camping community on the cross-instance community browser but it looks like there’s one backpacking and several “outdoors” aka outdoor recreation communities as potential places to post/subscribe to, in case Beehaw doesn’t make its own.

Tragically, it only supports iOS 16 so far. thankfully the web versions of lemmy et al work decently enough on my iPhone SE 2016 🧓

Caveat: new here! From what I’ve seen, broader communities are being encouraged to help with activity levels – so I imagine all of the topics you mention would be welcome.

One of my biggest side projects this spring was setting up my first NAS (Synology, since I’m a beginner) and all the *Arr apps funneling to Plex, with Overseer to manage actually adding movies and tv to the queue.

There’s a lot of ductwork involved up front (set up x many docker containers, get them all to talk to each other, make sure you’ve got auto-updating set up, what about a VPN, and so forth) but I’ve been super pleased with the end result’s ease of use.

There’s a lot more in the self-hosted space I want to explore too, now that I’ve dipped my toes in – mostly around music and photos. I’ve a pretty manually organized music library and would like to be able to store on my NAS and access in a nice way from every device.

We also have a small collection of Blu-ray movies and TV, but 95% of those are my partner’s – much more into physical media than me. It has a precise organization on the shelves that I don’t touch! 😂

Looking forward to hands-on previews / reviews that break down what the additions and changes are from the first game.

So it’s not the same as a fully featured wiki application, but I host a docker instance of VS Code on my NAS pointed at my obsidian vault volume, then SSH tunnel into it when I’m on devices away from home. Foam (VS Code extension) helps add some missing Obsidian features (backlinks pane, syntax highlighting, some autocomplete, cmd-click to navigate wiki links).

I can share more implementation details if anyone's interested; caveat is that unfortunately it doesn’t work on mobile.

Other options I looked into:

1. GitHub - gollum/gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
   • this requires you to use git in your vault, which didn't work with my personal set-up, but might not bother you?
2. Raneto - Markdown Knowledgebase for Node.js
   • I couldn’t get this container to load anything in the browser; possibly less an issue with my vault content and more of an issue with my container set-up so maybe it'd work better for you.
3. GitHub - Zavy86/WikiDocs: 📗 Just a databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine..
   • this version looks like it supports PUID and GUID assignment for volume read/write, if that matters. I didn't try it though.
4. Filestash — Self-hosted client for your data
   • Taking a look in the docker installation instructions, I couldn’t find anywhere to put a local volume mounted to the docker container. I'm pretty sure it doesn’t actually interface with local files, so I didn't test further.

The story felt much more impactful to me than BotW. I was so glad they did give us a bit of linear story at the beginning, rather than starting us in the sky with none of the lead-up. I also made sure to watch the memory cutscenes in order, and basically binged the last 3 in a row because I was too excited to space them out more. And, the final battle + ending was exciting and cinematic.

There’s definitely critiques that can be made after the fact, but in the moment I was emotionally invested in a way that BotW never reached for me.

Re: an archive - if you have the hard drive space, there's a ~2 TB torrent of PushShift's Reddit backup from 2005 to 12/22, with Jan, Feb, and March 2023 up on Internet Archive.

I haven't looked too deeply for tooling to interface with the data yet (compressed json) but I expect it's mostly focused on machine learning or large data analysis, rather than browsing and searching. Still, with so many 10+ year users doing the "overwrite and delete your comments" combo (which will be me come June 29/30), it comforts my data-hoarding soul to even have the potential to dig into the archive for anything I might want to reference in the future.