The best part about federated services and lemmy is you can start a community on any open instance.

lemmy.radio is for amateur radio only, however. Both membership and community creation.

testing image uploads!

using the aws-cli as we speak (type?) should be finished in another hour or so!

don’t think there’s an option for that. looks like i’ll have to migrate all of our photos over to S3. Shouldn’t take too long(?)

So of course one of the issues with moving to a new object store is old local images are orphaned. I’m looking at how we might be able to migrate at least our user/community images, but this may be how it is for now. You may have to reupload your profile photo/banner. I’ll work on updating the community images. Honestly, this will help us save on storage in the future.

This is very one sided. There’s SO much more to ham radio than voice.

Maybe the question is “How do we get people to think that ham radio is more than just a voice call?”

Might have luck at !techsupport@lemmy.world

It would be nice if your ticket came with a subscription to Scientific America and some whiskey tho

Don’t let nestle find this out

Try kagi search! It actually has a “lense” or search option that lets you directly search federated services like lemmy: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html

From experience: I can say that a topic instance such as ours is easier to moderate due to the fact that it’s narrowly focused and the number of posts here are small in comparison to a general instance such as lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. I moderate the users that join pretty fiercely so I know that the only people that join/post from here are interested in amateur radio in some fashion. I also think we are a bit lucky in how we moderate with the fact that hams tend to moderate themselves and others already through their acts and experiences with radio communications in general (thanks everyone!).

I sorta see how you can view niche instances as having sub-subreddits. Generally though, every community out there is just a subreddit and you can subscribe and post to any of them, even though some communities do share the same topics (there are lots of other amateur radio communities out there).

I definitely like seeing people creating communities here, as long as they are amateur radio focused (see rule 5). I also would suggest making an account on a general lemmy instance as well, in case you would like to make a more generalized community. I think it’s probably just good practice on any federated application to create accounts on multiple instances.

73!

Also note that these are spaces and not rooms. They work just a bit different depending on your client.

The link for the main lemmy dev chats can be found in the readme.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

This should be the matrix link: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org

If I remember right, there was a pretty big change in how pictrs(photo management) worked with lemmy after 0.19.3. There were a few breaking changes and Postgres updates that would take an instance down for a while as well. Not sure if that’s the reason why but it made my instance stay on 0.19.3 for longer than it should have.

As an instance owner and moderator: that’s a horrible way to look at things. Just throwing the onus onto someone else is irresponsible.

I’m all for it as long as people know that posting on something like mastodon and tagging a lemmy community will then make a post in that community. Could make for great discussions, but could also lead to a lot of posts/spam in the communities.

Those are all great options for sure. And while not an exact answer to your question, you could maybe go a bit simpler (and cheaper) for just 2, 10, & 20m like an end fed half wave.

Thoughts on how you’ll run it to your second floor?

It’s not a slogan, just the title of the article 😊 it does go on to state that the spirit isn’t much different and how it’s used differently today. Glad you like lemmy.radio!

For lemmy: it’s mostly link sharing, so I’d mostly see posting about *OTA experiences, pics, questions here in the POTA/SOTA communities.

Mastodon, on the other hand, would just be one way to show something like that since it’s more time related and ephemeral. Bot was my first stab at something like you mean, but I do think there could be something to auto-post with all that data.

And while not on the fediverse: I use hamspot for something like this. It flips the onus of posting a spot to actually listening FOR a spot from people you know around the fediverse.

BUT if we want to let our ideas get REALLY wild with it: I could totally see a federated service for spotting or any *OTA related activity. Different instances handing different kinds of spots. Parks or summits or islands being different items that people can subscribe to, spot from, and activate. Just spit ballin’.

I could see a community used for spotting. Not sure how the browser extension part would work.

I see people post a sorta self-spot on mastodon all the time. Something that might be nice is a mastodon bot that could read a certain hashtag or if it was @ed so everyone could follow the bot to see who is activating.