Would also be great if the new comments would be highlighted.

It once landed on a ledge above the deposit, so you only needed to drop the bombs.

Does plus addresses help circumvent that? I think most email providers supports plus addressing (also known as sub-addressing). You can add plus sign and any string before the at sign. For example: youremail+lemmyaccount1@email.com. The string between plus and at signs can be anything, and all these addresses points to your normal inbox with the added benefit that you can filter them into different folders.

PS. Lemmy version 0.18.2 was released today. It fixes the vulnerability and has some other improvements as well.

Also be wary when using apps and especially when enabling push notifications. Lemmy API currently lacks any kind of support for partial access to an account (unless this has changed recently). So, apps cannot, for example, get read only access to your account’s inbox. Apps can get either no access or full access. When you sign up for push notifications, an authentication token is stored to the push notification server which gives full access to your account to who ever happens to get their hand on that token. If there, for example, happens to be a security vulnerability on the push notification server, it might leak those tokens.

If you have enabled push notifications on some Lemmy app, and want to invalidate the token, you can just change your password.

Here’s a post by Memmy for Lemmy’s developer about push notifications: https://lemmy.ml/post/1534493

As far as I know Lemmy stores only text locally and images and such will be linked to the external instance. Text doesn’t use much disk space, so that shouldn’t be a big a problem. Sometimes when you browse Lemmy, you notice posts that have broken links to images. It’s because the other instance is down, but you can still see the text portion of the posts on your home instance.

There’s also pornlemmy.com. You don’t need to be logged in to view posts and there’s no anime/hentai or aigen stuff.

Did you just ask that has Reddit ever given anything back to their volunteers, besides sticks, rocks and ill will?

It’s all inline images. I assume the devs haven’t implemented image markdown yet.

Lemmy uses exclamation mark for communities to distinguish them from users: !community@instance vs @user@instance.

but have yet to figure out how to get mentions like @weirdwriter@tweesecake.social to work.

When you type @-symbol and then at least two characters, a small pop-up thingy appears after a second or few. It should appear above the word you are writing, but at least for me it appears at the top of the screen so that more than half of it is above top edge of the screen. And if the list is short enough, it won’t even be visible without scrolling the page up. My instance is running 0.18.1 release candidate, so it might be a bug in that.

That pop-up thingy lists all the users that matches what you have so far written. For example, if you type @we, words like power and Sweden are matches, because there’s “we” in them. You can use up and down arrows to select the user you want, and then autocomplete the link with enter. It won’t help you to autocomplete the link if you copy-paste the full user name. To autocomplete copy-pasted name, you need to delete the whole instance part of it and the last character of the user name. Then type the last character you just deleted, and the pop-up appears with only one choice - unless that user name exists on more than one instance. If you type the second @ for the instance part, the pop-up disappears, so you cannot narrow the list to only one user in those cases where the user name exists in more than one instance.

That’s similar to this all in one tea brewer:

You put the leaves in to the top compartment. Add some water, and when the tea is ready, you press the button at the top to let the tea liquor fall to the lower compartment.

I actually meant this Hario Glass Jumping Teapot:

But as said, images are deceiving, and it turns out that that pot comes as 500ml and 800ml variations. Hario Europe doesn’t seem to sell small teapots anymore, but some vendors might have other, smaller, models.

Not an audio engineer, but I had unshielded (thin) cables in my home speaker setup. If the cables were positioned correctly, everything was fine. Accidentally move them even a little, and there’d be a huge amount of noise, due to power cables going near the speaker cables. Switched to shielded (thick) cables, and there’s no noise ever.

That pot also seems to force larger brews.

Pictures are deceiving, and I didn’t specify the size. It’s 180ml teapot. It’s called Hario Asian teapot. I think it’s discontinued, but there’s a newer model which has a metal fine mesh filter instead of that metal spiral. Fill it to the bottom of the spout and it’s about 100ml, which is great for gong fu brewing. Fill up to the bottom of the lid and it’s 180ml. But yea… after I got my gaiwan, I haven’t used it.

I too use a gaiwan. When I got in to gong fu brewing, I first bought a glass teapot that has a metal strainer in the spout.

While it’s nice to look at while your leaves brews inside it, it’s somewhat annoying to use and clean. The strainer let’s small bits through, so you need some kind of filter unless you like those leaf bits in your cup. Small leaf pieces gets stuck in the metal strainer. The spout is so narrow you need some kind of tool to clean it. The lid is annoying to clean. And because it’s glass, you see any stains that forms over time. Stains can be removed, but it takes some extra effort.

Gaiwan on the other has so simple form that it’s super easy to clean. Most of the leaves will fall off when you turn it upside down and give it a shake. The rest you can dig out with your fingers. You can also see the leaves because the opening is so wide, and it let’s you “play” with the leaves using the lid. You can, for example, move the leaves around so that they will steep more evenly.

It takes a while to learn to use gaiwan properly. It might burn your fingers. You will most certainly spill the tea all over the place. But once you get the hang of it, it’s a really nice way to make tea.

This is a good article: The Non-Judgmental Guide to Getting Seriously Into Tea

You should try different types of teas. Teas are classified into 6 categories: White, green, yellow, black, oolong and post-fermented (also known as puer or puerh). Puerh is further divided into ripe (shu) and raw (sheng) puerh. Also teas from different countries have their own characteristics. Try them all, and find your favorites.

Supermarket teas, whether teabags or loose leaf, aren’t very good in general. Of course, there are exceptions, and if flavored teas is what you like, there’s plenty of those in markets. But if you want good loose leaf teas, you need to buy from tea shops. Here’s a long list of online tea shops around the world. You can use the search feature to filter the list. If you, for example, want to find shops that sell teaware and are based in United Kingdom, you can search for “teaware kingdom”.

If you want to buy teaware, a good rule for what to buy is this: Spend the money on tea instead. Don’t buy some crazy expensive clay pots, when a simple porcelain gaiwan (cup with a lid) does the job perfectly.

Use your instance’s search feature. You can search

• Name of community: No Stupid Questions
• By using !community@instance syntax: !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• URL of the community: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions

First option won’t work if your instance hasn’t federated the community yet. The last option is best in my opinion.

r/Blind is still a valuable resource for many people. No sense denying people access to it. r/Blind mods already created a Lemmy instance which they try to promote for their members. But learning new software can be challenging when you can’t see, especially if the software isn’t very accessible.

Someone needs to start a “campaign” for naming and shaming companies who advertises on Reddit. “[This company] supports a company that actively discriminates against the disabled. #SayNoToReddit”

That list won’t show which instances have block the home instance. The blocked list lists only the instances the home instance has blocked, not the other way around.