$916 billion = US military budget, in 2023.

Just think of all the good that could be done with that money…

Poverty-reduction, environment-restoration, water-health, high-speed trains, global-aid…

When will we be angelic?

This User Script called Fediverse Redirector auto-redirects all Community, Post, and User pages to your home instance. It works well.

• Just click install on that page - it will be added to TamperMonkey (or similar).

• Then click settings (under the script) and enter your home lemmy instance.

And to directly answer your question: the raw code is visible in that repo, so you could explore how the post redirect query was constructed.

Just pick one of the suggestions and start doing it.

There are a lot of great ideas in your other post.

Yes, this issue has been fixed and merged into 18.1 (the next lemmy version).

• You can see the lemmy-UI github issue here.

• You can see the fix/merge here.

And as a temporary fix (until 18.1 releases) - if you click the “create post” button, then click the “back” button, the subscribe button should magically appear.

That’s true - Lemmy displays new comments above “top” comments, allowing them to be seen by everyone.

1. To find new communities - go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right “Home” icon and type your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)… now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.

2. Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): https://lemmy.ml/post/1470777

3. Change your default “Sort Type” to “Subscribed + New” (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.

4. Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more ‘performative’ tone of greeddit).

I agree, there is a time for purposeful sarcasm.

To me, it requires two conditions:

1. A person has already expressed their real perspective to a specific ‘opponent’, and

2. That specific opponent cannot see the hole in their own logic.

This Norm MacDonald radio clip is a good example.

He explains his true perspective, and only switches to sarcasm for one sentence (at 5:25), to show the opponent how she is being goofy [and it works].

His foundation of sincerity gives context to the sarcasm.

Conversely - nowadays - a common ‘communication style’ is to just spray aimless sarcasm at distant or imaginary foes,

which (to me) reflects a deeper cultural issue…

a hiding behind mockery, a suppression of real constructive bravery,

just dunking on one-dimensional charicatures of strangers (who might not actually exist).

[So I agree with you - there are times for purposeful sarcasm.]

This is a very short story about sarcasm:

Ted opposes racist rants.

Yesterday - Ted posted a few exaggerated racist rants (sometimes with the /s).

2,177 people saw Ted’s racist rants.

• 50% of them guessed he was joking.

• 98% of them would not have seen a racist rant yesterday, if it weren’t for Ted’s little gag.

So the question is:

Despite the sarcasm… isn’t Ted just spreading more of what he honestly deplores?

Is Ted subverting his own integrity?

Why not say how we actually feel?

If you were directly uploading an image to the voyager.lemmy.ml test instance, then I believe that JSON error is expected, because the test instance is not running a Pictrs database.

Dessa the rev,

I did a FRESH lemmy-ansible install on a new VPS.

• I only modified the host file (did not edit config).

Homepage shows the same UI and error message:

• “Found. Redirecting to /404?err=FetchError: invalid json response body at http:/lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?page=1&limit=20&sort=Active&type_=Local&saved_only=false reason: Unexpected token N in JSON at position 0”

Clicking “Login” or “Sign Up” gives the same error:

• client.js: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘site’)

And the same docker error:

• lemmy_server:::root_span_builder:NotFound

I haven’t modified anything - it is still a fresh ansible-install.

Here are the configs/logs for this NEW lemmy instance (pretty-fied).

• DOCKER ERROR LOG

• DOCKER-COMPOSE.YML

• LEMMY CONFIG

• NGINX CONFIG (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ggg.com.conf)

• iptables

I haven’t changed anything (database / ports / config) beyond what ansible did.

If you have a chance to consider this, I am very grateful.

I’ve read all the docs and I don’t know what else to try.

NOTE: The GOOD news is - I’m making a “Lemmy Install for Noobs” guide as I go (detailing every small step)…

When I finally get Lemmy running, I’ll share the guide for community review/benefit.

It was an ansible install, but you are right, I modified the config a ton (tryin to make it work).

I’ll wipe the VM, reinstall with an unedited config, and go from there. Thank you

Thank you for the reply. I updated the 3 docs to paste bin.

You’re right because if I curl localhost (while SSHed into the server), it shows the NGINX setup page.

“If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and
working. Further configuration is required.”

Could be an issue with the NGINX config (I’m not sure which port mappings to change)

For example, this section:

# frontend
location / {
# The default ports:
# lemmy_ui_port: 1235
# lemmy_port: 8536

set $proxpass "http://0.0.0.0:29201";
if ($http_accept ~ "^application/.*$") {
set $proxpass "http://0.0.0.0:17161";
}

if ($request_method = POST) {
set $proxpass "http://0.0.0.0:17161";
}

Am I meant to change those ports?

And is # lemmy_ui_port: 1235 and # lemmy_port: 8536 just listed for reference (or am I meant to add those elements)?

Thank you again.

Here are the new pastebin links:

Docker logs (2 errors)

• TL-DR (the 2 errors):
• lemmy_server:::root_span_builder:NotFound
• lemmy_server:::root_span_builder:captcha_incorrect

Lemmy config

Nginx config (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ggg.com.conf)

I would still create an issue if you like.