Oh I didn’t thing about access points. With something like ZigBee, the switches add to the network range. But for WiFi, each switch will need to be in range of an access point. We have pretty decent coverage but the benefit of using ZigBee is other devices can take advantage of the extended network.

Others have talked about Zwave, I’m not sure which camp they sit in.

Interestingly. I was a bit worried about adding dozens of new WiFi devices but it sounds like it’s not an issue so I will consider the WiFi switches after all.

Sweet, I was a bit wary of WiFi switches but maybe I’ll consider them after all

I was under the impression that WiFi could only handle so many devices connected. 20 years ago if you got more than 10 or 20 some would start getting kicked off. Maybe that was my short router. Is that never an issue with modern routers? Even adding hundreds?

How do WiFi switches do when you have a lot? Is it an issue to put in 50 WiFi switches, wouldn’t that overload the network?

0.19.4 was only released a few days ago. And Lemmy.world, the biggest instance, sure ain’t gonna be the guinea pig!

You can’t keep your comment history on a brand new account.

Aren’t the Lemmy volumes bind mounts, so not in the docker volumes folder but instead on the file system as mapped in the docker-compose.yml file?

Yep, definitely. That’s the allure. From what I can tell, it’s likely there are tens of thousands of people making over $1m a year. However, there are hundreds of millions of people uploading videos.

Most people won’t make much at all, but if you don’t have the people at the top making millions then no one has any incentive, so those people are critical.

There are lots of peertube instances. The issue is that YouTube uses ads to pay content creators, and so everyone puts their content on YouTube in the hope of becoming the next big thing.

Lemmy has algorithms, it’s just that they aren’t designed to maximise profit.

If you have the sort type set to Hot, posts are ranked based on score (upvotes minus down votes) with a decay based on post time. Active is the same but based on the last comment time.

If you are on the website, there is a ? next to the sort option that will take you to a page explaining how the different options work.

But long story short, most sorting options are affected by down votes.

How come the apps are controlling your keyboard? Shouldn’t it use your phone’s selected keyboard?

Hey ChatGPT, how can I …

“Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]”

Those discussions are heavily one sided.

What a weird thing to say about a company that had $2.5B in revenue last year and 17M paying subscribers.

It’s like saying “who users gmail these days?”, where the answer is a shit ton of people just not the early adopters that have moved on.

My guess is that Lemmy trends towards an older audience (average age is probably 30s), and also a lot of Lemmy come from similar walks of life (many are very technical or work in IT and similar).

You don’t find many people arguing over political differences, either. Generally people agree rather than having divisive opinions.

Also definitely playing into it is that many social media platforms are deliberately divisive as it drives usage higher.

In the lemmy web UI I believe it is. But it’s not the only way to access lemmy, there are other website frontends and a bunch of apps which all can have different ways of doing things.

You could try an API call: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_community-mod

Otherwise try without the first @ in the name? I’m not sure how Photon expects it. Also try without your instance, just the name (with or without first @).

Another option is to spin up the Lemmy frontend on another subdomain. Lots of Lemmy instances run several front ends.

Get them to post in the community (or find an existing post), click the kebab menu three dots, then click Appoint as moderator. Does that work?

Ah I see now there’s another post about this: https://lemmy.world/post/14092260

In many cases, the mod probably removed the content. It will show on the post as removed but won’t show on the user profile, so you may not know they have posted.

But I’d guess a direct API call would work too. When you click the ban from community button on a post, your webpage or app makes an API call to the Lemmy back end to tell Lemmy to trigger that action. You can also manually send an API call if you know what you’re doing. I would assume it’s possible to ban a user from a community by doing this, so long as you had the permission to ban a user from a community.