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Have you ever had an illness that most people don't understand?
  • I've had this too. Sometimes when I would stretch to crack my sternum, I would get this wave of heat and eventual pain in my chest. So it was a gamble every time I felt that I had to crack it. It's been a lot better in recent years but it never really went away completely.

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    Why are actors smoking in movies and tv shows?
  • Thanks for this comment. I was about to post about it being 2023 and not understanding why smoking is still a thing. Everyone is different I guess.

    The historical movies/shows argument does makes. Live and let live I guess.

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    Post launch day chat
  • The backlash has surprised me a bit. I agree the price is a bit steep but considering the userbase is only a fraction of what Reddit has, it's understandable that the price would be higher.

    I just didn't expect such negative reactions to either the ad component or the price. A lot have mentioned that it could become a form of gatekeeping for newcomers. I just hope it won't turn out that way.

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    I've used Lemmy more in the past 12 hours than I have in the past month since signing up. All because of Sync.
  • One thing that worries me about Foss is the eventual lack of updates and potentially become abandonware. Many people mentioned that the Foss apps protects are a side project for most developers. They could easily lose interest or have other things happen in their life that take up more of their time.

    These arguments are valid for closed source as well I agree, but this being the devs main focus makes me feel better about updates in the long term.

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    Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
  • My wife confirms the "gross dick" status for Ethan Hawke. She was working as a bartender back in college and he sat at the bad one night. He kept creepily propositioning her.

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    The older the better
  • Manipulative/controlling behavior sent through texts with his ex that she saved, shared on twitter and told other women to avoid in their relationships. I don't remember his ex's name right now though.

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    current lemmy status
  • I think this occurs because people haven't gotten used to linking to communities on other instances properly.

    They usually post the direct link like beehaw.org/c/technology . Instead they should start using the federated link which is more instance agnostic like this: /c/technology@beehaw.org . This link will load the community from your instance.

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    If you want to host and manage your own Lemmy instance but are intimidated by the technical requirements, I can help!
  • Thanks for offering your knowledge! I successfully set up and instance using their docker installation guide. However I was never able to get the smtp server to work. I first tried to add postfix to the docker-compose file like they have in the ansible installation example on github, but that didn't work. Just trying to add an email address to my account would stall the UI with a spinning animation on the Save button. I then tried to update the hjson config file by adding my sendgrid api credentials and removing postfix from docker compose. That gave me the same result. At that point I kinda gave up and deleted my vps. I don't have access to my error logs anymore, but I can spin up a new vps to try to get the same errors again if needed.

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    I like this significantly better than Mastodon
  • I felt kind of lost when looking for a Reddit alternative. Lemmy feels like the right alternative. It's not perfect but it's a better base than what we had with Reddit. I hope it picks up.

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  • Feed gets randomly filled with new posts

    When going through the post feed, I'll randomly get 5-10 new posts added to the top of the feed. These 5-10 posts are all new with 1 or 2 upvotes only. Sometimes all from the same community.

    This happens on local, subscribed, or all feeds. It also doesn't matter what sorting option is selected.

    Is this a known issue or an expected behavior?

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