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  • Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and?

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  • Lemmy.World federates to potentially any platforms as long as they also use ActivityPub and are not defederated/defederating. However, compatibility may vary, and some rather sporadic cases from some tests I did outright wouldn't work.

    And to my knowledge, it's not possible to connect accounts for them to behave like one. What is is having your accounts in different services follow each other.

    Mbin, Peertube, Misskey and Mastodon allow that from my experience. I would presume other microblogging and video platfroms allow that too, though still have to test them.

    And just in case, to clarify, Mbin (software) tries to act as a mix of threads (like Reddit) and microblogging (like Twitter and Facebook). The/Brain/Bin (my main instance) runs on Mbin software. Lemmy is focused as a threads platform, but you can't follow users directly there.

  • I got infected like an idiot

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  • Cynical as I have become in recent years, I can't help but to think it'd be due to a VM seldom carrying interesting data for data brokers - your real machine is usually where the "good stuff" is.

  • Is it ok for me to ask someone to post my post to reddit?

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  • Plus, in the possibility you don't want to stick around and just came here to ask for help, I would insist otherwise: the protocol's proposal makes for the environment as a whole to be hard to be taken down or to be taken over. And even if a given community, user base or instance is not of your liking, alternatives are already starting to pop up while still in the overall environment.

  • Is it ok for me to ask someone to post my post to reddit?

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  • If the platform doesn't want you, I wouldn't think it's healthy to still chase after it. If it's something you want to post in other platforms, maybe see if there's a section of your liking in other forums or microblogs? I remember coming across a few those past few years, like AtariAge, Retropie, Fuwanovel, Twitter if you must, Bluesky or any of its forks, etc.

  • I got infected like an idiot

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  • Depending on what you work on, maybe there's an alternative FOSS or at least paid DRM free software?

    Or, if you work for a company and it demands this tool, maybe you could ask them to provide the software for you?

    On a 3rd point, I've seen official softwares detect when they're being run in VMs or similar, so maybe that's what happened.

    On a 4th point, if you must use a crack, maybe do so on a less usual Linux system, so if it's a functional one but packaged with virus, the virus breaks either because it runs under Wine or similar, or because the less usual system lacks some needed dependency for the virus if it can run on Linux as well?

  • Streaming large library of vintage gaming content

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  • About the edit at the bottom, unsure what you tried, but on Lemmy instances when creating posts, I'd presume you'd need to add the link in the URL field, and the image in the Image field.

  • Nemi - another top?

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  • Unsure how popular it is in Norway - I'm in another continent and yet to visit there so can't verify easily.

    But about what you'd be missing, from the little I could gather, maybe half the main series, and all the Christimas comics which apparently still release yearly to this day.

  • Nemi - another top?

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  • Finding the original translation version* is pretty hard. Been looking for over a year now, but I fear it'd be easier to book a flight to Oslo or Bergen and look at book shops there.

    (*put "translation" by brain fart)

  • How to remove 'anti-piracy' footers from complex PDFs?

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  • Found a few candidate tools though can test neither now, mutool (part of the mupdf tools), PDFtk, qpdf, pdf2txt (name sounds familiar though it might be memory playing tricks).

    If any of those could be found as a single portable exe around 2020, chances are it is the tool I used for it.

  • How to remove 'anti-piracy' footers from complex PDFs?

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  • Iirc, tested it out quite a few years ago, and I had to use a software that would both decompile and recompile the PDF, and while it was decompiled, I had to remove the repeating pattern I didn't want with something like Notepad++. File got recompiled a bit over 50% bigger iirc, maybe different compression methods, but the pages themselves didn't seem affected.

    Sadly can't remember the name of the program I used for compiling and recompiling, only that it'd do both and that I looked for how to remove watermarks from PDFs. Also the program was certainly offline.

  • Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon

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  • That's something that's been bothering me on the microblogging side of Mbin too, how replies to posts are presented. There, all replies appear on the feed, and they're also on a parallel code block to the post, so even browser scripts or filters have trouble picking them.

    Your comment gives me some ideas, so will be poking on the Mbin issues tracker later. Thanks! _

  • GitHub - fsdtmr/lyrium: Lyrics viewer for android*.

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  • Mind sharing a link to the tool? Checked the post on the original url and it doesn't seem to be there either so guessing it was forgotten.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon

  • Open Lemmy comment threads in Mastodon?

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  • Old post, but in case it's useful in the future, also a third option is to follow someone whose instance has communities and boosts at the same time, and follow him/her. Whenever the post is boosted, it gets propagated to the Mastodon instance of the follower.

    Mbin does this, PieFed early on said they wanted to implement a similar hybrid system as Kbin/Mbin but dunno how it's going, and with how overarching Misskey seems to be for text/image posts, I wouldn't be surprised if one there could follow communities too.

  • How to sort a list of communities by engagement?

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  • On the sorting logic, not the code itself, maybe calculate differently for each range of total votes?

    For example, let's say there are 5 communities with up to 100 total votes, 5 with 1000 and 5 with 10000. You could, for the first, divide the percentage by some constant like let's say 10, the middle one you'd do nothing, and the third one you'd multiply the percentage by the same constant as the first. The resulting number (no longer a percentage) could indicate the engagement.

  • Let's explore the fediverse 🤓 - 42

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  • Been using quite a lot @birb@rss-parrot.net, as quite a lot of stuff has RSS feeds but no ActivityPub counterpart. Sadly exclusive to microblogging-compatible platforms, but still helps a bunch.

  • spend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OS

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  • Some times it isn't about the destination, but about the journey itself.

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  • Been noticing that for quite a while now, each platform has their own cultures, even when there can be exchange between two or more. If an instance blocks another, I'd imagine it's due to differences in such cultures.

    As an user for some 2 years now, I get an idea of the communities I'd rather avoid, but other than the most extreme examples, haven't seen much openly discussed about specific instances.

    Now, I wouldn't worry about what people from instances x, y or z think if I were you. If you like how your chosen instance is, and people from other instances organize to hunt you down, seek your instance's support if needed, or simply block each and every one pestering you.

  • Commodore offers Windows 10 users an alternative with Linux-based Vision OS

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  • Everyone, including Commodore themselves: "how you're not dead?"

    Commodore: "I don't know! =D "

  • What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?

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  • cd command.

    No joke, when I started, it was the thing I stalled on the most as it's so basic no one explains

  • Comics @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    War and Peas - deathlist.pdf

  • Comics @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Dinosaur Comics - August 25th, 2025 - awesome fun times!

  • Comics @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Dinosaur Comics - September 10th, 2025 - awesome fun times!

  • raspberrypi @lemmy.ml
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    Testing a Raspberry Pi 3B as an internet hotspot - anything I should be concerned about?

  • Raspberry Pi @programming.dev
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    Update on Grayjay on a Raspberry Pi5: it works!

  • Raspberry Pi @programming.dev
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    Grayjay on a Raspberry Pi5?

  • raspberrypi @lemmy.ml
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    Grayjay on a Raspberry Pi5?

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Instrument used in Sabaton's "Templars"?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Some "quasi features" for Mbin through Ublock Origin filters