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@ FrostyTrichs @crazypeople.online

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I'm smoking weed about it.

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    Is it possible to find a friend or partner on Lemmy?

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  • Finding/making friends on Lemmy is definitely possible. There are a handful of people I talk to outside of Lemmy every day that I originally met here a couple years ago.

    I think it helps tremendously if you can find places to interact with others that are less combative than the news/politics/etc that can dominate the feeds here. If you have personal interests in music, movies, tv, or even just want to have casual conversations, there are plenty of communities for that here. Those places give everyone a chance to "break the ice" on a slightly more personal level that helps develop lasting friendships.

  • What is a Wrecker according to Hexbear mods?

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  • Some friends unfortunate enough to live in a HOA would feel this in their souls lol.

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  • Well done.

  • do you think Lemmy is dead?

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  • Good to see you around

    💚 Thanks mate. I'm never too far away. I've had more going on IRL lately but I spend most of my time on crazypeople.online communities these days too. Mysteriously the vibe there is right up my alley. 😜

  • do you think Lemmy is dead?

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  • There's too much in-fighting and drama for it to be dead.

    I'm smoking weed about it.

  • [Suggestion] Custom filtering of feed by keywords

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  • Ah, my bad mate. It looks like you were able to find what you were looking for on Voyager though.

  • [Suggestion] Custom filtering of feed by keywords

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  • Is it possible somehow? Maybe a client with this functionality exists?

    I know it exists on Boost:

    Full disclosure Boost isn't FOSS if that's a deal breaker for you. There are probably other apps with this functionality too.

  • Inside the mysterious life and death of Harry Houdini

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  • www.nationalgeographic.com

    Inside the mysterious life and death of Harry Houdini

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    He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life as Ehrich Weiss, a rabbi’s son from Budapest. After moving to America as a young child, he was soon performing in his neighborhood circus as “Ehrich, the Prince of the Air.”

    Before long, he was touring circuses and vaudeville circuits around the States as Houdini, a name inspired by the French father of modern magic, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin.

    After years of minimal success, Houdini and his wife, Bess, began experimenting with an escape routine that involved handcuffs and locked trunks. In 1899, a vaudeville producer spotted them, and Houdini was catapulted to the biggest stages of the day. The next year he set off for England and Europe, where he would publicize his shows by visiting local police stations and breaking out of their jail cells and handcuffs.

    Soon, Houdini was known around the world as the “king of handcuffs.” Confined by shackles, ropes, and manacles, he’d be locked inside a box and placed in an extreme situation—underwater, upside down, underground, hanging from impossible heights—from which he’d promptly escape. Over time, he evaded the world’s most secure handcuffs; a famed Washington, D.C., jail; and an airtight bronze coffin.

    (Harry Houdini’s unlikely last act: exposing the occult)

    Houdini’s talent for escape was matched only by his knack for self-promotion. The era loved a daredevil, and Houdini was the ultimate American success story. He was an early adopter of corporate sponsorships—for example, inviting beer companies to manufacture the barrels he’d escape from for cross-promotional opportunities—and used the press to plant stories, good and bad, about his act. Often, Houdini’s performances drew public derision from those who wanted to challenge him, although today it’s thought that he himself planted many of those challengers to drum up attention.

    As Houdini’s fame grew, so did his bold public stunts. In 1908, he offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who could build a device that could successfully restrain him. (It appears no one ever claimed the prize.) A decade later, Houdini made an elephant disappear as he slowly turned the massive cabinet it stood in onstage at New York’s Hippodrome Theater. With the dawn of cinema, Houdini also dabbled in movies, appearing in several stunt-filled films. But he never became a screen star.

    Houdini’s fame amplified his crusade against the spiritualist mediums popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His efforts would inspire generations of magicians to speak out against frauds and con artists, including religious figures claiming to channel spirits or possess mind-reading powers.

    His stunts were not without real risk, and Houdini was often injured during his routines, once even rupturing his kidney when a longshoreman tied him up too tightly. But seemingly nothing could pierce his image of impermeability. Though Houdini was never considered as masterful in the art of technical magic as some of his contemporaries, his commitment to bold, daring stunts makes many remember him as the world’s greatest magician.

    (What do we really know about Harry Houdini's death?)

    Houdini’s death on Halloween of 1926 was just as mysterious as his lifetime of tricks. His death is attributed to complications from appendicitis, which likely traced to a lecture at McGill University weeks earlier, where a student had challenged Houdini’s claim that he could withstand punches and hit him forcibly in the stomach. But no autopsy was performed, and rumors of his cause of death have continued to swirl. Some even speculate that enemies in the Spiritualism movement planned his assassination.

    Although he never believed the spiritualists’ claims, Houdini did promise his wife, Bess, that he’d communicate a secret code to her from the beyond if he could. For a decade, Bess attended séances hoping for a signal from him, but his voice had been silenced by the grave.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • if you’re keen to farm data.

    I have enough projects already lol.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • I wonder how much of that decrease is a result of instances shutting down and their users migrating off of Lemmy to platforms like PieFed and others. The users may not be completely gone, just not on Lemmy.

  • Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?

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  • Good luck mate. It's a little intimidating at first but it usually boils down to something simple. A slight misconfiguration or minor syntax error can cause pretty significant issues. You might have a look at your logs or try running in debug mode to see if anything jumps out at you.

    EDIT: Do you have federation enabled in the admin panel? Also probably worth making sure you DON'T have private instance checked.

  • Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?

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  • IIRC the way it works is by PMing you the API key to get started and you're failing at that point. Are you sure your instance is federating? I don't know anything about how fediseer works on the backend but if it's not able to send you a PM that suggests you might not be federating at all or maybe you're running a whitelist or something? I'd start investigating if your instance is reachable from other instances and if you're able to send yourself a PM from another instance.

  • Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?

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  • You'll have to claim your instance on fediseer and have another instance endorse yours. It's a system of trust to help keep bad actors from having too much influence over the platform and causing others grief.

  • Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?

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  • Sorry but I'm not sure. Every time I've used that tool the setup has gone flawlessly. The first time you use it you put in your instance URL and it should output something for you to add to your DNS records. If you just made the DNS changes it can take a few minutes to several hours for those changes to be pushed out.

  • Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?

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  • What community would you like to see more active on Lemmy?

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  • !autoracing@crazypeople.online for motorsports.

    I've been working on a bot to help with serving content to that community but it isn't ready for deployment yet. Once it's finished there should be a lot more content being posted more regularly there, but I want to do more testing and tuning before enabling it to make sure it's not doing more harm than good.

  • I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well

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  • It's fine mate, I'm not here to crucify people who want to or have moved to piefed for any reason. People should be able to go where they feel comfortable and welcome and be happy about it. Do what you want and what works for you, of course. All I'm saying is that people should take note of what has happened and why, and do what they can to mitigate that problem going forward.

    As long as communities are migrated and redirects are up before the last day of lemm.ee the transition will be miles ahead of what we've seen in the past where instances go dark without warning. Communities and users survived then and they will survive now I'm sure.

    It's just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would've helped lemm.ee if they'd known sooner or if more cries would've gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.

  • Slrpnk.net outage (resolved)

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  • Ouch. Best of luck getting it back up and running ASAP.

  • I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well

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  • I think the urgency is being blown out of proportion as a knee jerk to really crappy news. There is almost a month to move, which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse. Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.

    Again, I'm not against piefed or against people moving somewhere they feel more comfortable or like more. Those are positive things that the fediverse could definitely use. I just don't understand why we can't learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn't happen again before more instances pop up.