Wait are you saying that with the example your provided your password for Lemmy would be catlemmy-Dog5? Because that’s a terrible system.

That’s the one I use as well and it gets rid of the sign in popup without breaking or blocking other Google sites.

In Firefox there’s an option to copy links without site tracking. Kinda wish it was the default behaviour.

Song.link is the simplest I know of and seems to work pretty well. Just go to song.link/YOUR_TRACK_URL. For example

https://song.link/https://music.apple.com/album/never-gonna-give-you-up-2022-remaster/1624945511?i=1624945512

will take you to this page https://song.link/i/1624945512 with links to Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube and what not.

Bonus tip: if you’re on macOS and use Velja there’s an option to automatically convert all copied music links to songlink.

That’s pretty much the same size as an iPhone 15 Pro. Not even close to the size of the mini.

Just use a password manager and a unique, long, random generated password for every site. There’s no need or reason to know the password to anything other than your password manager and your primary email.

Porkbun is awesome. A few months ago I transferred most of my domains from Namecheap to Porkbun and I’ll be transferring the rest soon.

Namecheap are still in my top 3 after Porkbun and Cloudflare though.

I really doubt an automated database dump is going to hurt them a whole lot. However, if you’re looking to eliminate everything you’ve ever posted (and I mean everything, not just the few recent posts you see on your profile), redact.dev (possibly others too) can use that zip to find all your posts and comments and edit/delete them.

Now I’m not saying you should delete your data. I know many people believe that leaving it there benefits humanity as a whole or whatever, but if you are going to do it that’s the only effective way.

The macOS firewall can only block incoming connections. If you want to block outgoing too you need something like LittleSnitch or LuLu.

A lot of people seem to have forgotten (or maybe just weren’t around at the time) but there were tons of duplicate communities on reddit during the first years too. Over time their mods either agreed to close one and point everyone to the other or the less active ones faded away naturally.

One problematic scenario I can envision with that approach on Lemmy however is the mods of news@lemmysite1 and news@lemmysite2 agreeing to keep the first one alive, but then after a while lemmysite1 closes for whatever reason. So we’re left with news@lemmysite2 which is a ghost town. Probably not a big deal for a news community, but for something with a lot of info on a particular topic it’s not really ideal.

Haha well then it’s a good thing they’re only giving an option to turn if off and not removing it completely :)

Personally I don’t mind it as much as other people but it just feels kinda cheap. The beep makes me think of a microwave or a dishwasher, not a gaming console.

It also finally brings an option to mute the startup beep!

Looks good, but as far as I can tell there’s no option to keep your data offline only.

After using old.reddit for ~15 years (of course back then it was called just reddit) I have to say I don’t miss it one bit. It had so many issues, but was still infinitely better than the abomination they came up with to replace it so I stuck with it. While far from perfect, I much prefer Lemmy’s UI.

With that said, having the option is great. I’m sure it’ll help a lot of people with the transition.

I still receive PMs every once in a while from random people on Reddit thanking me for comments that I’ve posted years ago. Those comments have less than 20 karma combined. I also have a comment saying “Nice.” which contributes nothing and is sitting at almost 3000. Karma is meaningless.

Corporate vehicle, borrowed car from a friend/family member, rent-a-car, etc.

The smaller communities for specific interests (music genres, hobbies, etc).

Reviews and opinions. With Google results becoming worse by the hour, fake reviews flooding Amazon, paid reviews in almost every site/blog, when I’m about to purchase something I’m not 100% sure about I just search reddit to see what actual people are saying about it.

And last but not least - mostly sane discussions for news/articles with nested comments and a voting system. Lemmy already offers everything needed for that, what remains to be seen is how the community develops and grows.