Lemmy devs expressed in an AMA that Liberapay is the preferred method of donation.

Check out the Law of One for some funky spiritual stuff. There might be something in there that makes sense of this reality for you.

It knocked my shoes off

Definitely dead here.

One you don’t wanna join ;) (Google). I’m still on the free tier of what’s now Workspace and intent to move, but I’m dreading the work that comes with it.

A year or so ago Google almost killed the free tier (look up gsuite legacy if you want to know more). Back then I prepared to move away and settled on Zoho as my replacement, but in the end Google responded to the community’s backlash and kept the free tier free for personal use (although there are some other restrictions put in place, so eventually a move is inevitable). Zoho might also give you the features you want.

I use my own domain and have support for aliases and also have a catch all. No need to selfhost for that.

I would not recommend running your own email server. Major email providers like gmail only accept email from servers that have all kinds of measures in place to make them as trustworthy as possible. That’s hard and probably not possible on a home internet connection.

Filtering incoming spam is also a pain in the ass.

It’s nice as an exercise to learn how email works, but I would not rely on it.

Thanks for the hard work. I’ve cancelled my Patreon and switched to Liberapay.

Markdown is notoriously understandized, so there are lots of unofficial extensions. This is a major downside of markdown, as you cannot trust a renderer to properly show the formatting beyond the basics.

It’s still really nice, because of two great features:

• it’s super easy to learn. Just look at a few examples and off you go.
• even when it’s not rendered, it’s still easy to read (which I think contributes to making it easy to learn).

If I would guess, then it has to do with making long lines fit in a window without requiring horizontal scrolling.

Markdown is used a lot in the context of software development. Software code is usually accompanied by a readme, detailing what it does, how to setup your environment for development, how to contribute, etc.

The defacto standard is to write this in markdown. Since it’s written in a software development program (an IDE), you don’t have text wrapping, meaning lines continue when they don’t fit in the window. This is because otherwise the code becomes unreadable. Most code can also be kept to fairly short lines, normally not requiring any horizontal scrolling. However, a long sentence in a readme will easily become much longer than a line of code. So being able to break a line anywhere without having an actual line break in your rendered output is super useful for that.

This is btw how html also behaves. Markdown gets rendered to html.

When smart watches came about I thought it would be cool to be able to look at your watch when a notification comes in. Never ended up buying one and when I see how some people behave, I’m glad I never did. Some people will just glance mid conversation at their smart watch, which imo is just as bad as grabbing your phone mid conversation.

I’m happy with my cheap Casio. Looks heaps better too.

I work in IT and we have truly self steering teams without formal hierarchy. Not everyone is used to it and IT people can be interesting characters, so it’s quite a process to get the team to perform well.

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I see some tourists wear one in Amsterdam. Very rarely a local, of which I always assume they’re ill themselves or easily get ill (immunocompromised and what have you).

I have the same problem with [email protected]. Tried subscribing and posting from lemmy.ml, but I don’t see posts here beyond the one I created (which btw didn’t become visible at kbin.social, so it’s not working both ways).

Edit: this morning I edited an existing post I made from lemmy.ml to kbin.social. The post showed up with its edit. A bit later I also saw a post from kbin.social show up in lemmy.ml, so I think interacting with content will at some point force federation if it was not working initially. YMMV