I use Arch (btw). It’s not that I prefer ir over others for anything in particular, i’m just used to it by now.

(that’s my personal laptop, the computers in my offices are either Debian or Ubuntu)

No country in Scandinavia uses the Euro, they’re all out of the Eurozone- unless you count Finland.

third world countries are keeping up. My ISP reserves the right to throttle my bandwidth once use a certain amount of data. I have to say I haven’t noticed it do it yet. Yet being the keyword here.

It’s this. You’re in your instance and you see things how your instance sets them up.

That’s a weird bug if i’ve seen one. Do you know how it works?

weird, try using web. May be an app thing.

You are definitely seen by kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/lemmy@lemmy.ml/active has your post. Why do you say you can’t reply? Sometimes the synchronizing has some hiccups.

You can see how kbin.social is “seeing” you here: https://kbin.social/u/@pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one

even the mundane is enjoyable, today i went grocery shopping and just added the schedules of the stores I went in.

this app showed me how much i don’t know from my neighbourhood. It’s really fun.

it even allows you to put notes on things the app doesn’t give you an edit choice by default. I let someone know a street name was outdated that way.

Before everyone came over from reddit Lemmygrad was even more extreme than it is now, and was one of the largest Lemmy instances.

This is correct. After all, setting up an instance like Lemmygrad -as an alternative places where discussing politics (especially leftist politics) outside of reddit’s moderation reach- was one of the reasons Lemmy was developed in the first place. Lemmy’s developers are not shy about it, they include it in the official docs.

No activity on that request but some related features (#1, #2) are being worked on. So probably we will see some advances in future versions?

Here they talk about this instance stand on defederation. It has some vague responses about this.

Edit: there are some not actually vague

I use command line tools for this, for most those things pdftk should be enough and it works great -if the command line is too daunting for you, there’s PDF chain a graphical front-end for pdftk.

For creating PDFs from images i often use imagemagick.

Of course. All in all these are things that usually happen when a platform gets traction and publicity. Hopefully better tools to deal with this will come soon.

and neither will prevent from spambots coming from other instances

on lemmy.world they activated captchas which, apparently, is an option.

There’s definitely bot farming. Someone i know on Mastodon posted this yesterdar: Post in spanish

this is a translations made by google and I changed some words: "I set up an instance of Lemmy, to test a few things. I passed it on WhatsApp to a group of people, so they could look at it. I always had the federation turned off because it’s a test instance and I don’t want to screw anyone in other instances. I had the configuration that it sends me an email if someone asks to register. Eventually trying configurations, I ended up leaving it with open registers. Last night I got about twenty new account registrations, with names that seem to want to imitate subreddits (ragequit, yolo, hype, things like that; I don’t know subreddits like that but it sounds like they might exist). And various things:

1. This instance doesn’t connect to anything, nobody (apart from a group of people who reacted with total apathy to the issue) had that domain. It was not published, it was not federating. Registrations came just the same. It occurs to me that since it is lemmy.<domain> there is a bot testing that scheme with different domains.
2. Lemmy sent me an email letting me know that these people applied for registration, but I can’t see the registration application anywhere, because there was no application, there was registration. And that email is turned off by default. With a Lemmy instance configured “out of the box” you wouldn’t know.
3. Maybe it’s me, but from the UI (at least on the phone) I can’t find a way to see the list of users. I know the names from the email that came to me. The only thing I found is the search engine, and there I can search one by one.

All of this seems to me like a nightmare to moderate. And the truth is that I do not blame the instances of Lemmy at all that are blocking the instances that have open registration."