It’s SATA? You could just plug it into your normal Linux computer (use a Linux live boot if you need to, do not risk it with Windows due to viruses, don’t even mount the drive) and wipe it from your newer computer.

But from what I’ve seen, most people that buy these retro computers are gonna put an SSD in there anyways.

Technically the default Lemmy UI does hide the dupes, although it may still be buggy. Probably worth revisiting this once v1.0 launches. I’m not sure which apps do and don’t do that though.

You realize Reddit bans people too, right? The only difference between Reddit banning people and Lemmy.world banning people, is that Lemmy is transparent about it and gives you choices about it. On Reddit when someone gets banned they’re gone, there is no more so-called “completeness”, it’s just an illusion. But Lemmy has no such issue because you can choose who your admins are, you can join an instance that didn’t ban them.

Imagine if Reddit bans your friend, not as easy to ignore as Reddit banning a stranger, they’re gone and you have to leave Reddit entirely. On Lemmy if lemmy.world bans your friend, you can both just change which Lemmy instance you use to something more agreeable like https://lemmy.zip/

But I realize you’re probably only here to advertise your own forum. You’ve had 7 posts in the past month? And only 3 comments total? Just join the Fediverse! Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin are open source, use one of them for your server and you’ll instantly have an active userbase of over 40k. If you use Mbin (or PieFed to a lesser extent) then it also brings access to microblog posts which means many more users linked in. And then you can allow everyone and not ban anyone.

I see a few “deleted” badges on your forums, I’m now upset that I can’t access ALL of the content!

it brought back bad memories of an old site that was actually stealing our content without any attribution and they never added two-way federation lol

but yea this sounds good, I wish you luck!

good to hear that you’re planning two-way federation

edit: nvm

yea it’s awful but they’re used to it lol

Yep that’s why I still do it. It’s like that scene in Thank You For Smoking lol

https://youtu.be/vjOrOMVFCbs

Agreed it sucks, but people are used to it? Or the pain points don’t hurt casual users? I’m not sure, but either way that doesn’t mean Lemmy/PieFed can’t be improved

I’m not a big fan of Mastodon, but I never liked microblogging in the first place

maybe also because a lot of instances default to “Local” instead of “All”

first they came for 3rd party apps, and I did not switch because I did not use 3rd party apps

then they came for anonymous users, and I did not switch because I’m always logged in…

I left a bunch of replies about Lemmy/PieFed, but usually it doesn’t work. It’s not easy to change peoples’ minds.

Most issues aren’t “real” issues, Lemmy and PieFed have great feature-sets. They’re issues with UX/presentation and onboarding.

I’m not sure I understand your question.

You’re on Lemmy right now so if you’re happy with that then stick to it. Or you can try PieFed if you want https://piefed.zip/

Or just stick with Lemmy and try a different app/frontend for it https://join-lemmy.org/apps

most of them no, which is maybe another issue of not showing that’s an option, but really the default UIs need to be good

56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237

Lol yeah. I’m almost done reposting the original posts from the old community.

my Ubuntu 24.04 server is secured despite not updating anything or rebooting (I have now, but curl was already declining it before)

$ curl https://ov-g3c-aaa-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

other issues would be software not respecting the system level certs, but that can happen on any OS, it just depends on the program

As noted, most browsers have already blocked the intermediate certificates. The exception appears to be Edge running on Windows 10, which at the time this article went live was still connecting to 12 vulnerable hosts.

LOL