lemmy.net.au

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This instance is hosted in Sydney, Australia and Maintained by Australian administrators.

Feel free to create and/or Join communities for any topics that interest you!

Rules are very simple

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https://join-lemmy.org/apps

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Think of it as an opensource alternative to reddit!

founded 2 years ago
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hyprn to c/meta
 
 

Welcome to lemmy.net.au: Understanding Lemmy and How to Use It

Hello and welcome to our Lemmy instance! If you're new here, you might be wondering what exactly Lemmy is and how it differs from other social platforms. This guide will help you understand Lemmy's unique structure and how to make the most of your experience here.

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a forum-style social media platform (sometimes called a 'link aggregator') similar to Reddit or Hacker News. Here, you can:

  • Share and discuss links, text posts, and images
  • Upvote and downvote content to determine what rises to the top
  • Join communities centered around specific topics or themes
  • Connect with users across the entire "fediverse"

What Makes Lemmy Different: The Federated Approach

The key difference between Lemmy and traditional social platforms is that Lemmy is federated. Here's what that means:

Instead of one central website controlled by a single company, Lemmy consists of multiple independent websites (called "instances") that are all connected to each other. Each instance is run by different organizations or individuals.

Think of it this way: If Reddit is like a single massive shopping centre with one owner setting all the rules, Lemmy is like George Street in Sydney, which has multiple shopping centres, each with their own management but where shoppers can freely move between them.

The Power of Federation

When you join lemmy.net.au, you're not just joining this instance - you're joining the entire Lemmy network. You can:

  • Interact with users from other instances
  • See and participate in communities hosted on other instances
  • Keep all your connections even if you decide to move to a different instance

This means if you don't like how one instance is being managed, you can move to another without losing access to your favorite communities or connections.

How Lemmy Works in Practice

Communities and Usernames

In Lemmy, both communities and usernames include the instance name:

  • Communities are shown as c/CommunityName@instance.org
  • Usernames appear as @username@instance.org

For example, a community on our instance might be c/Australia@lemmy.net.au, while a user might be @JaneDoe@lemmy.net.au.

Accessing Content Across Instances

With your lemmy.net.au account, you can:

  1. Subscribe to communities from any federated instance
  2. Comment on posts from any federated instance
  3. Message users from any federated instance

When you find a community hosted elsewhere (like c/Programming@programming.dev), you can interact with it just as if it were hosted here.

Finding Communities

To discover communities:

  1. Browse popular communities on lemmy.net.au
  2. Use the search function to find specific topics
  3. Try the Lemmyverse.net search engine for more comprehensive results

Reddit to Lemmy: Translation Guide

If you're coming from Reddit, here's a quick reference to help you understand the terminology:

Reddit Term Lemmy Equivalent
Subreddit Community
r/example c/example@instance
u/username @username@instance
Karma Score
Moderator Moderator (same!)
Award Not available (no awards system)
Crosspost No direct equivalent, but you can share links to posts
Sorting by "Hot" Sorting by "Hot" (same!)
Sorting by "New" Sorting by "New" (same!)
Reddit Premium No equivalent (no premium tier)

Finding Communities

There are several ways to discover communities on Lemmy:

  1. Browse popular communities on lemmy.net.au
  2. Use the search function to find specific topics
  3. Visit lemmyverse.net - This is an excellent search engine specifically designed for Lemmy that allows you to search across all federated instances

Lemmyverse.net is particularly useful because:

  • It indexes communities across the entire Lemmy network
  • You can search by keywords, topics, or community names
  • It shows activity levels and subscriber counts
  • It allows you to discover niche communities you might not find otherwise

When you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, simply copy its full name (including the instance) and search for it on lemmy.net.au to subscribe and participate. You might need to wait a few seconds after you search for the community to show up as the lemmy.net.au instance needs to connect to that instance and pull the information back.

Managing Your Experience

Blocking Content

If you encounter content you don't want to see:

  • You can block individual users
  • You can block entire communities
  • You can even block entire instances

If you believe a community or instance violates our community standards, please use the reporting function to alert the admin team!

Same Name, Different Communities

Sometimes you'll find communities with the same name on different instances (like c/News@lemmy.net.au and c/News@another-instance.org). These are separate communities with different moderators and potentially different rules.

This flexibility allows for diverse moderation styles and community cultures to coexist.

Getting Started

  1. Complete your profile - Add a bio and profile picture
  2. Find communities - Search for topics that interest you
  3. Subscribe - Join communities to see their content in your feed
  4. Participate - Comment, post, and vote to become part of the conversation

Need Help?

If you have questions or need assistance, feel free to comment on this post or message the admins.

Welcome to the fediverse - we're glad you're here!

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submitted 2 years ago by hyprn to c/support
 
 

Post a comment with your creds, looking for some moderators for the site

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submitted 37 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago) by sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works to c/cat@lemmy.world
 
 

2 photos today because they go together.

Accidentally posted some AI cat photos and this is my way of ensuring that doesn't happen lol

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  1. Children often open the door of the beverage cooler, which may affect the beverage's flavour. To avoid this situation, a hidden door lock with a key is recommended. It will also prevent accidents caused by the children's mischief

  2. If you put the refrigerator outdoors, it is advisable to prevent drinks from being taken without permission.

  3. This lock, at a certain level, can control the habit of gluttony that leads to obesity. When you have to take a drink, the lock gives a warning about the effective security protection. This warning will prevent you from overdosing and causing harm to your body, which can result in obesity.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1454863/ai-tech-leaders-are-lobbying-trump-health-officials-in-a-government-run-chat-room

A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2014703/is-this-guy-who-uses-ai-to-run-his-fantasy-football-team-the-biggest-loser-in-the-world

Why does anyone play fantasy football? This is not a trick question, although it's also not particularly difficult to answer. Perhaps they do it for money, or they enjoy football, or they want a shared activity to help stay in touch with friends or family. Whatever the reason, the fun is in picking your guys and managing your little team and hoping you win more often than you lose. Some people have a healthier relationship to this endeavor than others. Still, if none of it appeals to you, then you can always not do it.

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I’m starting to think they’ll just let you put anything in there. :)

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I post the detection of a alleged Dark matter particle, because it's so vague, 1 data point per a test. Something is there but I don't think it's dark matter in the way it's explained now.

Might it just be possible that because we built everything around this one theory that we can't get physical proof that we are missing multiple different reasons and even fields.

I feel a lot of science has bogged it's self down with theory and maybes for decades and decades now with no proof. And with the paper printer of Universities, even old or disprove theories keep getting posted.

I am not denying the existence of some kind of matter but everything is so varied I don't believe just dark matter exists. And Science just keeps bogging it's self down in theories and running around in circles

Wanna see a opinion or someone disproving me.

I need to go to bed so I won't be answering if people have some questions in couple of hours.

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Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the general availability of Ubuntu Desktop images for the RISC-V architecture, along with unofficial and unsupported Xubuntu Minimal images for RISC-V.

As I reported back in June, when the first daily build images for Ubuntu 26.10 were made available to download, there was a new RISC-V desktop image available too, but now Canonical is making everything official: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) brings desktop images to RISC-V computers.

That’s right, if you have a RISC-V computer and want to use Ubuntu on it, you will be able to do so with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release, due out next week on October 15th, 2026. Even better, it looks like there will also be a RISC-V image for the Xubuntu flavor featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

“The Xubuntu variant exists for a practical reason: the Xfce-based minimal image is far more manageable under emulation,” said Canonical. “The images are experimental: they carry no official support yet, and there are still known issues that we are addressing for the release. Bug reports on Launchpad are very welcome.”

Canonical recommends testing the Ubuntu Desktop RISC-V images on SpacemiT K3 hardware since official support for this platform is coming with Ubuntu 26.10, and they even have a guide on how to install Ubuntu on the SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX. On the other hand, the Xubuntu Minimal images are recommended for testing in virtual machines.

Testing the Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop images will require you to copy your own first-stage bootloader, such as U-boot, as well as the relevant Device Tree Blobs (DTBs), onto the ISO before booting it on real hardware like the SiFive HiFive Unmatched, which is supported by Canonical.

Canonical promises to deliver a complete desktop experience on RISC-V computers with the Stonking Stingray release, especially on RVA23-compliant hardware like Milk-V Jupiter 2 Mini-ITX, DeepComputing DC-ROMA, and SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX.

Ubuntu 26.10 is expected to ship with the upcoming GNOME 51 desktop environment by default, which will be released on September 16th, 2026, and the soon-to-be-released Linux 7.3 kernel series, which should be out later this month. I’m hoping that more Ubuntu flavors will pick up RISC-V support in the long run.

Without further ado, you can download the latest Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop images from here and the Xubuntu Minimal RISC-V image from here. Once again, please keep in mind that these images are considered experimental, so don’t use them for any production work.

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