I imagine there’s a significant chunk of users who don’t know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies

That seems like the obvious place to put a subscription that won’t get people upset. Or maybe it’s in the presentation.

When HomeAssistant started a subscription, they renewed their commitment to opensource, added new remote features with obvious costs under subscription while still letting you do it yourself, plus made it clear this funded continued opensource development. I happily pay this and haven’t been disappointed. Did Plex fumble a similar opportunity?

In the us, historically a lot were in basements but for decades now they typically have laundry rooms.

You don’t say “sue-knee” for “CUNY” (City University of New York) Etc.

Of course not, then it would conflict with SUNY (State University of New York)

And even more annoying, JavaScript is not correctly uppercased for common styles

f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this

P- iNG

When I first encountered it, it was by hearing it. It took longer than it probably should have to recognize that when people talked about “engine x”, they meant “in-jinks”

It’s like politics, hahaha. Those who don’t trouble themselves with too many details remain content with whatever they their emotions dictated while those who do research, sort out real facts, read reviews, understand the platform details live the next four years in constant anxiety

It’s actually a good point. To scale up we need to reach beyond nerds , find a populist voice

But once we need our over whatever we’re overly focussed on, we’re back to being the only ones in the computer lab at 3am

We need to bring enough nerds together or bridge the airgap, translate the jargon, find our unifying furry identity

What are those?

limbrols

Huh, I read this so differently than you guys intended. I was imagining different subscription profiles or something where the day is pleasant with things like c/awww but I get my rage on at night with c/politics

Or maybe the web UI really needs a widget to simplify whatever the syntax is for linking communities

I like this idea! I still don’t see how the more narrowly focussed servers would benefit me. I went with Lemmy.world because size matters in a forum, and the admins have been outstanding with reliability. The most likely reason for me to jump ship would be if that reliability fell.

That being said when I was new I had no idea what hexbear was or Lemmy.ml or whatever, and there’s only so much a description can do. I know the difference after reading many discussion threads

But I so would have jumped on Lemmy.nerds over Lemmy.jocks or Lemmy.preppies. Multiple servers with clearer sub-audiences may help a new user onboard easier. That being said, I realize I could just do that if I wanted to. I also realize that may just amplify the echo chamber effect. And I’ll stick around for the reliability and scale

Maybe it’s personal bias but I’d put a lot more weight into the comments about

• too few members
• wtf is multiple servers?

While I understand the power, the ideal of multiple federated servers, I still see it as an impediment for use. I know there’s online descriptions but I fail to see why I need to research and choose a server, especially when none really have the membership to support smaller communities yet

My dog knows to crawl under my covers; everyone else is on their own. (Plus we’ve never had an outage long enough to worry about it)

In the ActivityPub JSON for this post, there is no indication that this field contains MarkDown. …. it says it contains HTML

This seems like a bug. Regardless of what clients may support, the json ought to accurately describe fields

Definitely curious as well, but so far haven’t gotten around to trying

I used to do that but it would constantly nag until I connected it

My isp has messages back to 2017 talking about IPv6 rollout, but it never happened

After reading this I did try to call and act innocent about the complete lack of IPv6 on their web site and FAQs …… but the wait for a text chat is over an hour