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  • This is a good explanation of the feature for use with Lemmy.

    I’m gonna be an annoying pedant for a second though and say that “hide my email” and “sign in with apple” are two different and unique features, though they both act as an email relay.

    The former just creates a semi-random email address for you that forwards to your email. This address will end in “@icloud.com,” making it indistinguishable from any other iCloud email address (other than the ridiculous address you get).

    The latter is an authentication system that allows you to sign up for services that support it with your apple account. The service doesn’t get your password directly of course, when you click the “sign in with apple” button it will redirect you to an apple sign in, typically faceID or touchID, and when you sign in successfully (or are already signed in to Apple) it will redirect back to the service with a token that says “this person is cool.”

    Importantly for this conversation though, you can optionally send the service your real email or a generated email address as a relay, but the generated email is not the same as the email generated by “Hide my email,” instead it’s a clearly random series of characters and ends in “@privaterelay.appleid.com”.

    In the end they have roughly the same purpose for your email, but the important bit here is that on Lemmy, only “hide my email” will be useful. There are no Lemmy instances that support “sign in with Apple” (yet).

    Okay, I’ll stop being a pedant now. Sorry for being annoying there.



  • Thanks for the suggestions everyone! There were quite a few, and it took me a fair bit to decide on which one I wanted to start out with.

    For now, I’ll be using Reeder to see if it meets my needs. Like I said though, lots of fantastic options. NetNewsWire was up there around number two in suggestions, and Feedly was mentioned a fair bit as well. Admittedly I also asked around people I know, and overall those using RSS seemed to prefer Reeder.

    Still, if you’re stumbling upon this looking for your own, definitely go through the suggestions here.





  • I may not be a user on your instance, but either way, thanks for the upgrade. I was noticing a lot of issues with federation from lemmy.world, and it seems like this upgrade more-or-less fixed them.

    I’m just running a tiny, single-user instance, but I want you to know that I appreciate the work you’re putting in! I run large-scale infra as my day job, so I understand how challenging this sudden influx of users (and federated servers!) is.


  • Lemmy supports it on your profile, you should see a checkbox for “Show NSFW Content” if you click your username in the top right and then settings (if you’re using the default web interface, anyway). I believe this is disabled by default. Instances can also block NSFW for the entire instance, there’s an “Enable NSFW” option in the admin settings. This is also disabled by default.

    Memmy itself has two settings, which look like they’re independent of your Lemmy profile: one which enables or disables NSFW entirely (which is disabled by default), and one which can blur NSFW if it’s enabled.

    I suspect they’ll raise an eyebrow or two with the App Store reviewers, but they do have prior art they can point to as well as that section of the policy you just posted. We’ll have to wait and see; I haven’t checked myself to see if they passed review or not.

    First submissions typically don’t pass anyway from what I understand for a myriad of reasons, so don’t be surprised if it does get rejected. They’ll just update the app and try again.