Djokkum, did you see that Beehaw just defederated with us?

Edit: I just saw your post about the bot signups a few days ago. I think this was the driving force behind the defederating. But it sounds like you already have resolved the issue with removals and captcha. Beehaw said in their post that admins can email them to discuss, so maybe you can persuade them to refederate us since you’ve taken countermeasures against the bots?

Just to give perspective on how rapacious the textbook industry has become:

When I was in nursing school (graduated in May), even though I “purchased” the textbooks, it turned out what I purchased was only a license to access the textbook through their proprietary e-reader app for the semester. As soon as the semester was over, my access to the textbook disappeared.

This is the model that the textbook companies want. No more reselling used books to even recover a small portion of funds.

This is why piracy of textbooks is thriving.

And just to add to that, anyone who has installed Linux before knows that everything isn’t guaranteed to just work out of the box. Laptop WiFi cards, for example, frequently have driver issues. So it’s not quite as simple as OP is saying, even with PCs.

If a community doesn’t yet exist on the Fediverse for a given topic, can we create a community on Rammy, or is community creation limited to the admin?

I’ve been having trouble trying to search for !ps5@lemmy.ml, which seems to be the “main” PS5 sub. No matter how many times I’ve searched for it, I can’t get it to come up. Is anyone else able to? I haven’t had any issues searching for other communities.

Thanks for making this instance! I was originally on Beehaw, but they just defederated from lemmy.world and shitjustworks, which took away a bunch of content that I was subscribed too.

Is Rammy federated with everything? That’s all I ask for in an instance!!