That is possible

To get a link post with a custom thumbnail, you add the link and put the image in the thumbnail field.

To get an image post with a link, you make an image post and put the link in the post body.

I think since hobbies are nebulous and hard to compare against each other, you would need to find a study specifically looking at that. Even then, you would only get information on the specific hobbies they looked at.

Maybe you can try looking for data for specific hobbies instead of comparing them against each other? You can probably find rates of books, music, etc.

KRunner, Plasma’s search/launch/unit converter/calculator/“but wait, there’s more” tool, uses fuzzy matching to look up applications. This means that even if you misspell an app’s name, KRunner will probably still find it for you. How search results are ordered has also been improved, and KRunner will start to provide those results after the first character is typed.

Oh nice!

I also didn’t know it could do unit conversions lol

There are exceptions to all of the points below, but generally:

What do you like better here than on Reddit?

Everyone is here trying to build something better. The developers are actually prioritizing transparency and user choice when making the software. Since the instances aren’t after profit, there’s no financial conflict of interest. It’s actually possible for instance admins to prioritize user experience and a healthy community instead of making a profit.

I love seeing all the different organizational structures emerging; some instances are nonprofits, some are co-ops, some are benevolent dictatorships. I think in the long run this will produce a fairer and more representative online platform.

Also my interactions feel human. If I get 5 upvotes on Lemmy or 5 likes on Pixelfed, it feels like I connected with 5 real people. On Reddit, I just can’t tell anymore.

What do you miss from Reddit?

Activity in niche communities, but that’s changing slowly.

Also, as a mod, we could still use better moderation tooling.

Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

I think over time it will become more like Reddit. As the user base grows, the average will shift closer to what Reddit is like. Also, at the end of the day, a number of the issues are because of how groups of humans interact and not the platform itself.

However, the reason I’m here instead of the many other Reddit alternatives is because of federation. I believe that as long as we maintain a healthy balance in the fediverse (and not let one entity control too much), we can avoid the enshitification while centralized social media becomes unbearable for more and more people.

In the future, something like this could tell you if anyone else is having the same issues

https://downdetector.com/

It’s working on my end as well!

I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?

For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact

I noticed an nice increase in OC/discussion generating content this week (as opposed to lots of aggregated link posts)

We go through quieter and more active periods, but it’s still nice to see

I got the test messages I exchanged with a friend earlier, but new messages are still stuck

It makes me wish I was selfhosting more services, music & chat in particular. It wasn’t important enough to set up yet

Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work

Is Signal down for anyone else?

Reddit seems to be having issues as well. hah

Signal seems to be down as well?

COBOL handles the books because no one else can understand the system and it’s too much work to change after 40 years

… what?

Why detonate artillery shells over a highway, or around people at all

[email protected] has a rule against United States internal news, which is a nice balance for me, but it can still be dominated by news about ways that the US is affecting things around the world

Taps ‘View Map’

Allow deflock.me to use your location?

I get why it’s helpful, but this might discourage the target users from using the tool. Maybe it could request location only if the user taps a ‘locate me’ type button?

Amazing, thank you!

This deserves a post of its own

Very cool, thank you!