This is more of a support question, related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for a list of communities that offer support or check in the app-specific community. Removing under rule #3.

We had a topic on this last week. While I can see repeating it occasionally, removing this one under rule #4.

Regarding using RSS, Inoreader is my favorite recommendation. Here’s a blog post explaining how to get started: https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2022/01/inoreader-tutorial.html

Regarding discovering content - RSS is more about finding something you’re interested in and then adding the RSS feed to your reader. It’s pretty manual rather than fed by an algorithm. You’ll find some good content tips in this thread.

I believe Lemmy.ml currently has community creation disabled to encourage people to create communities on other servers.

The problem is that music isn’t generally FOSS - people would like to be paid for their work. So the next best thing is to set up your own music service where you can add your own music.

Here’s a good discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/rdxbxp/is_there_any_spotifylike_selfhosted_music/

You may also also want to ask about this in !onebag@wayfarershaven.eu - we love talking about bags.

I was able to get Brevo working on Hetzner with the following block:

  email: {
    smtp_server: "smtp-relay.sendinblue.com:587"
    smtp_login: "your_email"
    smtp_password: "smtp_key"
    smtp_from_address: "your_email"
    tls_type: "starttls"
  }

Interestingly, it wasn’t working when I gave up and went to bed. I happened to do something on the instance today and much to my surprise, an email came through. Maybe Brevo holds the emails/doesn’t immediately allow SMTP?

if that hadn’t worked, my next step was going to test sending email through the console as described in another comment.

Another one:

I’ve subscribed to a community but I see a different number of posts/comments. What’s happening?