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Reminder of this:

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

And that mailu.io (and other similar projects) makes self-hosting email almost trivial 😁 (at least for people that can run a pre-configured docker-compose.yml and buy their domain etc)

Each server has its own users and communities (but they still all talk and subscribe to each other!)

Usually I see usernames written in the form @user@lemmy.zip, while communities !InterestingSubject@lemmy.zip

Welcome to the platform!

• You signed up for the lemmy.zip server (=“lemmy instance”), but you can see posts, post comments, and talk to users from any other server. Just like you can send email from your personal email to your work email, it’s still just email! Other than the fact that usernames have a i.e. “@lemmy.zip” part, you shouldn’t really need to think about it 😅 (But when you want to login to your account, you can’t login to another server, you need to login on lemmy.zip)
• No need to learn much more to get started, you just participate in any discussions you want etc 😊
• You can find some communities to subscribe to at https://sub.rehab/ and https://lemmyverse.net/communities . To subscribe to a community, you can search for the community’s full name on your server, lemmy.zip
• Here you can find a mobile app to download: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/ . You can download whichever you want! You can just try them and pick the one you like the most, and you can have a couple of them at the same time and they still access the same content
• Lemmy.zip also has a list in the sidebar, “Useful links”, these four are just alternative websites you can use to access the same thing; again you can just pick whichever you like the most!

Ohh right, “τηγανίτες”! Thank youu, I haven’t heard it in a while 😅

(Thanks for the photos, yum! The red thingy also looks cute on them 😇)

In Greece the ones in your photos we call them crepes (“κρέπα”); for pancakes I don’t think we have a word, e.g. brunch places list them simply as “pancakes”, with the english writing

Nice, thank you!

I don’t have any specific feeds, and of course it depends on your interests, but I just wanted to recommend to keep an eye out for feeds during your everyday browsing

When I see an interesting link on Lemmy to a news article or a blog, I just look at a couple of more articles on that site, and if it seems interesting I subscribe to it! 😅😉 (I can always unsubscribe later if it turns out that I don’t like it). I started using RSS a few days ago, and I’ve collected quite a few blogs and news sites this way

(Btw also keep in mind, that some news sites provide feeds for specific tags, you don’t have to subscribe to everything that gets posted)

Do you mean https://vscodium.com/ ?

Signal has good encryption etc, is centralized, afaik needs Google Play Services except if you use Molly; but I think it’s a bit more mainstream and simple to use for end-users

SimpleX also seems to have good encryption, post-quantum etc, and is anonymous and doesn’t even use user identifiers (they explain why that’s good on their website), so it could be good for occasional more sensitive conversations or sth (but I see people struggling with onboarding when installing it, and I still get confused by the UX sometimes). It’s kind of not even decentralized, more like peer-to-peer, with servers to just cache messages when you’re offline, I think.

Personally for day-to-day I prefer to use Matrix with Element: decentralized (which I really value for competition and user choice), e2e, and has good support for creating communities etc, so I’m lucky to have it as our main chat platform for work, and I’ve been using it for years in our hackerspace and personal chats etc. I see end-users still struggling sometimes with onboarding, but if they’re close friends/family I usually need to set it up for them anyway

There is also zellij, which can do the same but also has modern functionality specific for development workspaces!

(Although screen or tmux will still probably be more widely available on remote machines etc)