This is really cool, thank you for running it!

Going through it now to look at the results :)

edit: I like the improvements you made, such as the questions that were broken down to be more informative

Thank you 😊 I love seeing all the responses here

Happy Canada Day!

Oh I don’t mind it, I like the post :)

I was thinking that there might be a lot of Lemmy users working in such roles, without a place (that I know of) to share those stories

It’s actually a big enough problem for warnings about it:

• Neurologists warn about link between chiropractic, stroke
• Adverse effects of spinal manipulation: a systematic review

Oh, we do have a !talesfromtechsupport community (link). Looks like the mod is inactive and the community doesn’t have that many subscribers

Maybe we can try making a new one here on programming.dev

!homeassistant@lemmy.world and !selfhosted@lemmy.world for more

Definitely this one, the products are sometimes placed right next to legitimate ones and worse:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025

Hidden camera reveals some pharmacists recommend homeopathic products to treat kids’ cold and flu

I sometimes come across influencers pushing chrio “treatments” on pets or newborns, saying it makes them “breathe better” or be “more energetic”

It’s infuriating

Hard to believe anyone makes apps for iOS, considering the hoops you have to jump through just to make it available to download.

This is something I’ve heard, and assume is the case, but I don’t know the specifics of. What kind of hoops are there?

Yea I’d prefer to wait until it’s on fdroid proper

Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.

Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are

• Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)

• Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds

That’s a good point, even the platforms may change over time (either by name, or entire projects migrating).

People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.

Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet. I expect that to change over time though

I’m not sure what would be the ideal community, but !fediverse@lemmy.world might have a larger audience with more perspectives :)

Something else from the newletter for those who are interested:

City Limits: Is everyone in urban Canada getting the internet they need?

JOIN US on June 11, 2024 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM ET for our webinar focused on digital inequities in Canada’s major cities. While conversations typically focus on rural and remote areas, many urban residents also struggle with insufficient internet access, impacting their work, education, health and connectivity. Discover how communities are taking innovative steps to bridge this #digitaldivide.

Link to webinar (eventbrite.ca)

the chatbot couldn’t even recommend the right specialist 😑

Welcome!

For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.

For sure! We don’t talk enough about how much customization there is for Lemmy. There is a wide variety of mobile apps that do things in different ways, and userscripts/userstyles to customize the desktop interface. A lot of instances are also running multiple frontends, each maintained by a different dev or team.

For example, our instance is running:

• Voyager interface at voyager.lemmy.ca
• Photon interface at photon.lemmy.ca
• Alexandrite interface at alex.lemmy.ca

Many possibilities, and I’m hoping we can see community customization too someday :)

I’ve had the built in version control do unexpected things, so I play it safe and create named backup files. I usually end up using that one file, but I’ve been saved on occasion

I think it’s to make it easier to write bash scripts, for those who are new or when the script is doing a more critical task

Modern Syntax

You will find many of the language features familiar, allowing you to get up and running much faster than if you were learning Bash from scratch.

Runtime Safety

It’s one of the key components missing from regular shell scripts. It can help you catch many bugs at compile time.

Type Safety

Amber ensures that you handle everything that could fail. Each Bash command and function that could fail must be handled in some way.

I’d start with ublock origin for browser extensions, and then add more things based on what you’re looking to do :)

You’ve already mentioned a few, but another might be to explore alternatives to the bad services and start a process to migrate over. That can look like anything from reducing your dependence on a service to moving over entirely.

ex. unfollow people and things you don’t care about