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Hey!

There's some things I am planning on ordering, and I'd like to get them delivered without my parents knowing.

The things in question are some 23w CFL bulbs, e27 sockets, PC fans and a power strip.
I was originally planning on just buying them in person, but literally no shops near me have them.

I can't actually find them anywhere but the american version of amazon -- my country's (Ireland) version of amazon doesn't have them.

I asked a few friends if I could send the things to their house, and get it through them, but all of them said no.

Spain will send a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced in New York on Wednesday, the El Pais newspaper reported, Anadolu reports.

“A maritime action vessel equipped with all the necessary resources will set sail from Cartagena tomorrow in case it is necessary to assist the flotilla and carry out any rescues,” Sanchez said.

Officials stressed that the mission of the European ships would not be to confront possible Israeli aggression but rather to provide humanitarian assistance if needed. The Spanish Navy vessel will operate in international waters.

I wrote this short "guide" in response to a new user earlier and decided to turn it into a post. So here is a short and easy guide to how to use lemmy:

The home page / feed

When you are on the home page of your instance, above the feed you will see this:

posts/comments: chose if you want the feed to show you posts or comments of posts.

eye/barred eye: chose if you want the feed to include hidden posts or not.

subscribed/local/all: choses from where the feed should pull what it shows you, subscribed to have it show you only content from communities you are subscribed to, local if you want it to show you content from only your home instance including comunities you aren't subscribed to, all if you want it to show you content from every instances your home instance hasn't defederated from.

And finally the sorting menu: It allow you to chose the order in which the feed should display content and include the following options

• hot - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment and time of the post
• active - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment
• scaled - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment but boost posts from smaller communities
• controversial - sort by how close are the number of downvotes and the number of upvotes
• new - sort from newest post to oldest
• old -sort from oldest post to newest
• most comments - sort by number of comments
• new comments - sort by how recently a post has been created or received a new comment
• top [period of time] - sort by highest number of upvotes among posts made during the last specified period of time

You can change what these are set as by default in the settings menu.

Posting

When you click the button "post" you will see this:

From top to bottom we have:

• Title - self explanatory, the title of your post
• URL - if you want a link to some other site on the internet in your post, put the link here
• image - if you want an image to appear next to your title in the feed
• image URL - same as image but with an image URL link instead of uploading a file
• Body - the content of your post, typically text but can also contain GIFs and images
• language - if you want lemmy to precise in which language the post is written in, rarely ever used in practice
• community - the community that will receive your post
• NSFW - click this if you want the associated image of your post to be blured on the feed, use it for anything the require a content warning

Each posts has these icons:

From left to right:

• the number of comments the post has
• link to the post
• link to view the post from it's home instance
• de-format the markdown syntax to see the raw text (I talk about markdown after)
• favorite the post
• crosspost, post a copy of the post to another community with automatic links to the original
• additional options like block a user, flag a post, etc

Comments have these icons:

• deformat markdown
• respond to the comment
• favorite the comment

Markdown

Markdown is a syntax system built in lemmy that allows you to modify your text in various ways:

You can make very big text for titles

of different sizes

italic bold ~small~ ~~barred~~

• make lists

Site quotes

write code

links

Footnotes[^1]

[^1]: Don't mind me, I'm the footnote from the Markdown section!

and post images

Additional pro tip: you can turn any image into an emoji

Remember the button to de-format the markdown syntax from the previous section? If you click on it you will see that all this funny stuff I just did correspond to this text:

# You can make very big text for titles
#### of different sizes

*italic* **bold** ~small~ ~~barred~~

- make lists

> Site quotes

 `` `
write code
 `` `
[links](https://lemmygrad.ml/)

Footnotes[^1]

[^1]: Don't mind me, I'm the footnote from the Markdown section!

and post images ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0e5791b4-88a5-4278-b2ca-a94e0e2b9869.jpeg?format=webp)

Additional pro tip: you can turn any image into an emoji ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0e5791b4-88a5-4278-b2ca-a94e0e2b9869.jpeg?format=webp "emoji example")

Federation

Federation is a part of the fediverse that tend to confuse peoples, because it is confusing.

Federation is made possible by a communication protocol called activitypub, and is basically a way for different sites to "talk" to each other kind of like e-mail or RSS. I absolutely wouldn't be able to explain how it works from a technical standpoint, all I know is that it allow sites to exchange information like "such post has been made on instance such-and-such" "such user from instance whatever has liked random post from instance what-s-it-called" in a decentralized spider web kind of way.

It allows not only every lemmy instance but every instance of every fediverse software, from mastodon to peertube to exchange content and data (unless they don't want to). This means that in theory a mastodon user can like and comment a lemmy post and watch a peertube video (in practice it's a little bit finicky and you have to try multiple times to understand how to do it).

Now let's talk about de-federation. De-federation has this strange and confusing one-way of functioning. It doesn't prevent the instance you de-federated from from requesting information from your instance, but it does forbid your instance from requesting information from theirs, in other words, when you de-federate from another instance your users won't be able to see the other instance's posts, comments and likes but the other instance's users will still be able to see your posts, comments and likes unless they de-federate from you as well. For example, from lemmygrad, we can still see lemmy.world comments on lemmy.ml posts and we can upvote/downvote and comment on them, but the lemmy.world user won't see any of it.

The wider fediverse

Since you're already on it, I suggest also taking a look at other fediverse apps. You can easily find them by googling fediverse. There is mastodon/miskey/akkoma/etc which are twitter-like micro-blogging softwares, peertube a video sharing platform like youtube, and many more.

The Marxist-leninist community on the fediverse is most well established on lemmy but we also have instances of other fediverse software. We have a mastodon instance established by an Hexbear user and a peertube instance established by hexbear user tankietanuki, I recommend both.

That being said, Good posting folks!!

Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/496594

Hey c/selfhosted,

we've finally done it. After years of people asking for it, GameVault now has its very own Web UI!

For anyone who hasn't heard of it yet: GameVault is a self-hosted gaming platform that gives you a Steam-like library experience, but for your own DRM-free games. You host it yourself, you own your data, and you can share your collection with friends and family. Basically, it's for gamers who also love the selfhosting mindset.

This Web UI / Cross-Platform Client has been the most requested and long-awaited feature for as long as we've been working on GameVault. When we first built it, it was just a small project for the two of us, written with the tech we knew at the time. Over the years, especially here on Lemmy, people gave us plenty of criticism for the tech stack and the UX, because you guys love to use linux. And honestly... fair enough. We knew it wasn't great.

The new Web UI is our way of addressing all the feedback we've received and setting the stage for the future. It’s not just a nicer interface. This also represents the first building block for a new cross-platform client that we’re working on.

The Web UI acts as a cross-platform core, which means that in the future we will be able to package GameVault to run both directly in the browser as well as a native application on Windows, Linux, or even mobile devices. This upcoming client will be built on the same foundation, ensuring a smoother and more unified experience whether you're on a desktop OS or just checking your vault from your phone.

Right now, we're planning to expand the Web UI continuously and figure out how to handle the legacy windows desktop client moving forward. The technology underneath is much cleaner now, so we finally have the freedom to iterate and improve without being stuck in the past.

Anyway, we're really excited about this step. It feels like a true milestone for the project, and we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback. If you're self-hosting and love gaming, give it a try, I'm curious what you think.

You can also check out a live running demo version on demo.gamevau.lt
Username: demo
Password: demodemo

Just noticed this brown stain above my living room window. I don't have a ladder at the moment so can't reach it to touch it but the wallpaper near it is starting to lift so I think it might be damp. But it's on the ground floor and there doesn't appear to be anything else around it or in the room above it. My bathroom is on the floor above too but to the right. Could it be water travelling from the bathroom down or getting in from outside? It hasn't rained locally since Saturday.

I'm no longer working class anymore.

I'd like to take over the customs_broker community, I am in contact with the creator/original mod via Discord and they no longer use Lemmy and forgot their login credentials. I'm the only person posting on it and would like to try and get it going again.

Fundamentally, it would face outward toward a public that is looking for solutions rather than inward to the comfort of its own activist base.

“Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are. Never let the man that you’re against form your opinions. This is the trick that’s played on everyone who’s oppressed: when you have a revolution in a country, the first thing you take over is the radio. Then, you start telling the people that the war is over, so all of them surrender. They believe that thing right there.

And once they take that over, they start telling you where you are and where they are, and you fall right in line — it’s plain thought control.

The majority of the American people aren’t segregationists. The majority of the American people aren’t imperialists. But the government is. The structure is. The power faction is. So, how, then, do all the majority go along with it?

Because those who sit in power over the television, over the radio, and over the press is constantly telling those who are the masses how free they are, how this they are, and how that they are.”

The Militant Labor Forum, New York, New York, May 29th, 1964

https://archive.ph/2025.09.23-235727/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/taiwan-curbs-chip-exports-to-south-africa-over-national-security