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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t know how I feel about this personally. On the one hand, I feel like this is a privacy win for those who want it: no watch history means no algorithmic recommendations and (presumably) less data collection for those users. On the other hand, I personally really enjoy the recommendations that YouTube makes for me. Maybe it is the wide variety of content that I watch, but I’m honestly very pleased with the recommendations that YouTube provides. That being said, I feel like the opt-in to algorithmic recommendations is a good thing overall, however I am personally going to leave my watch history enabled.









  • I’ve used the PWA, Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect.

    Jerboa is probably my favorite of the bunch. I prefer how compact everything is and the 0.0.33 version was working well. I upgraded to 0.0.36 and performance took a bit of a hit so I figured I would explore alternatives. Also when I looked at other options 2FA support had not been added (it’s working as of this post)

    The PWA is more than functional,and I like it quite a bit. Don’t like that backing out of a post navigates to the top of the page though.

    Connect is good too, just personally not a fan of the larger interface, even in list/compact mode.

    Currently using liftoff. Performance is good, 2FA support is available, and in list/compact mode it’s tolerable. I still do prefer the compactness of Jerboa though.





  • I have Lemmy running on my homelab behind Cloudflare, though I’m using a reverse proxy setup. I made some minor modifications to the provided docker-compose.yml to get everything working with my existing reverse proxy setup.

    As for backups, I want to say so long as you back up the postgres database and import the backup on your new server you should be good. I believe there’s a section in the Lemmy docs on how exactly to do that process.





  • I like it so far. The web interface is pretty solid and Jerboa is serviceable, though missing some features that I would call crucial to the experience. I can’t fault the developers at all though, as it’s like two dude to my knowledge. The reddit API thing convinced me to run my own instance for friends.

    I’m hopeful lemmy takes off and sees a larger adoption as well, I think that putting the internet back in the hands of individuals is super important as there has been way too much aggregation of services for like the past decade IMO.