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@dessalines@lemmy.ml

• Comment on What does the "Chat" button do in comment threads?:

  Sorts comments by new, and the tree is removed, so its a "flat" structure. New comments will always be at the very top.

• Comment on What FOSS TTS should I use?:

  Wow coqui sounds really good, i'm gonna have find a command line thing of that.

• Gitea 1.16.0 and 1.16.1 released - Blogblog.gitea.io ↗
  Submitted ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago to opensource@lemmy.ml | ⁨1⁩ ⁨comment⁩
• Comment on How do you fund your lemmy instance?:

  You can use sshfs to store pictures on any machine you want. The volumes/pictrs folder is where they're stored.

• Comment on What review websites do you use?:

  Besteveralbums

• Comment on No longer getting email notifcations on lemmy.ml?:

  Its been a while that this has been an issue... we'll probably need to pay for a mail service unfortunately, because lemmy.ml keeps getting listed on spamhaus.

• Comment on Three questions from our instance's user base:

  Is there a way to see a list of all of the registered users on an instance?

  Not currently.

  Can we restrict registered usernames (e.g. not allow slur-filled usernames)?

  Yes, the slur_filter in the config.hjson will prevent any usernames with that slur in it.

  Are all Lemmy instances openly federated unless they are on the block list?

  3 types of federation: open (default), allowlist, and blocklist.

• Comment on Three questions from our instance's user base:

  We recommend turning on registration applications in your server settings, almost all lemmy instances have been getting trolled these last 3 weeks.

• Comment on How do you fund your lemmy instance?:

  This is kinda a broad question, but If you need to store a ton of pictures, I'd recommend buying a large hard drive, and setting up sshfs between whatever server you are running, and the folder on your local computer with the hard drive setup.

  The real solution for picture storage hasn't been created yet unfortunately. You can see how asinine it is, when you have pictures cross-posted to 7 different websites, while none of them are sharing the hosting costs by using something like torrents.

  The problem with pictures is that their size is in-between small things like text, which is fine to replicate, and large things like audio / videos / movies, which absolutely require torrents to share the hosting costs.

• Comment on How do you fund your lemmy instance?:

  The biggest cost really isn't hosting, because lemmy can easily be run on a VPS for less than $10/month. The biggest cost is moderator time, and they should be paid for if they're running a good instance.

  Right now at least, you can put donation links in your site sidebar, or possibly do funding drives via posts.

• Comment on How do you fund your lemmy instance?:

  The only issue right now with storage, is pictures, which is ran as a different service, which you could run elsewhere. Text data takes up so little space and isn't going to be an issue... I think the entire english wikipedia text is only 100GB.

• Comment on Request for /c/hamradio modship:

  !community_requests@lemmy.ml , and link me a post or comment of yours over there.

• Comment on Do you want to nominate someone for mod?:

  If someone wants their communities, they can do a request on !community_requests@lemmy.ml

• Comment on Supported Files for lemmy:

  We also support torrent links, which is the best way to distribute hosting costs for large content like videos anyway.

• Comment on Does Lemmy have a way to counteract a mod taking down a whole community?:

  If an instance goes down, then pretty all much all data on that server will not be accessible.

  Also wanna add, that if any servers have been federating with communities that live on a dead server, they will still have a backup of all those pushed posts and comments ( which starts happening immediately after one person subscribes to that remote community).

• Comment on To combat the anti-Semitic brigades over the last few days, we've made it so that new users have to fill out a registration application before they can join here.:

  Its optional, and yes it can.

• Comment on Thoughts on r/antiwork drama and implications for Lemmy:

  Although, jumping communities/servers might be a bit trickier once the scale grows. And this would be an important aspect from activism perspective.

  100% agree. Especially since communities really do "live" on a server. Another server can have a backup of that community's history (IE federated content they see on their own server), but if the original server dies, then so does the that community... and it would have to be re-created.

  For example, could make it so that community can’t be deleted, mods can’t take it private, etc.

  Fortunately besides deleting all your own content, even mods cannot edit or actually database delete anything but their own content. Even a community delete is just a boolean flag, and communities can be undeleted with no harm done.

  But yes there's so much with democratic moderation that has never been tested or implemented, that its completely unpredictable. I'm not sure I would want lemmy to be a test-case for that potential instability, I'd rather have other projects figure out something that works first.

• Comment on Thoughts on r/antiwork drama and implications for Lemmy:

  Here's a github issue for it, with some other threads linked. @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I are both very sympathetic to the idea, because there's been so many of these cases where a top mod will wreck or subvert an entire subreddit.

  Hierarchical moderation is definitely a weak-point that I replicated here for only one reason: I've never seen a system of democratic moderation work in practice. You could hold "elections", but then who approves the voters, and makes sure they're legitimate, and not double or triple voting? Now you have to institute a reputation system for the voters. How often do you hold these elections, and what initiates them? Who decides when elections are to be held? How do you circumvent people from "faking" reputation scores, or double voting ( creating many accounts, faking content and upvoting themselves, etc ). How do you prevent someone putting forward 3 of their alt accounts for modship, and voting themselves in?

  And then doing all of that is somewhat overkill, and only seen as necessary because of reddit's obsession with subscriber count, even if 99% of those subscribers are inactive. It takes two seconds for people to subscribe to an alternate, and these alternates sometimes explode in activity within a few weeks. I've changed the sorting and emphasis for communities away from subscriber count, and towards users / month, to mitigate that inertia here a bit.

  Also a lot of reddit's issues wouldn't be replicated on a server like this where the admins actually participate for the health of their server. If a mod goes rogue, and the community dislikes that, we can just boot them and appoint a different one. If a server creator / admin like myself goes rogue, people can just start their own server.

  Again I'm not completely against it, I just have yet to see any system of democratic moderation work on forums or online communities anywhere, and that's likely an unavoidable consequence of internet anonymity.

• To combat the anti-Semitic brigades over the last few days, we've made it so that new users have to fill out a registration application before they can join here.
  Submitted ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago to announcements@lemmy.ml | ⁨16⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• Comment on Android Native Lemmy Client for Android:

  Thank.

• Comment on Men who wear briefs why? And what do your girlfriends say about it?:

  ngl doing jumping jacks while wearing boxers does make me question my hardline pro-boxer stance.

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  I'm basically reverse engineering my favorite reddit client to build the one I'm working on. I posted an apk below if you want to test an early alpha.

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  No probs :)

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  If there were 3 of me, one of them would be building a desktop client using iced, the rust GUI toolkit.

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  Thx! Was between that and muskrat lol.

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  Its not even to alpha yet, but you can open up bugs on the github: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues . I will probably ignore them if they're in comments.

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  https://filebin.net/id0ao1zt6fd3daib

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  My Jerboa client is still alpha level, but if you want, i can give you an apk to help me test it.

• Comment on What FOSS software do you wish that existed or was better than it is?:

  I desperately want an open source desktop markdown editor that's not written in electron.

• Comment on Anyone know any good lemmy client ?:

  Lemmur is the best currently.

  I've been working on a native android client called Jerboa recently, but I'm maybe 2 weeks or so away from a beta.