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- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 3 weeks ago:
Drag hopes their financial system becomes desperate enough, and enough people say it’s about lemmy.ml, that they realise they have little choice but to take lemmy.ml offline.
The goal is becoming clear. Western-supremacist redditors will not tolerate any communist-friendly spaces on the internet that oppose US foreign policy goals. They can shut our communities down and kick them off reddit, but doing the same on the fediverse is proving difficult. Censorship and anti-communist witch-hunting is their life goal.
For the record, I would never wish starvation on anyone, regardless of ideology. No one should have to be in a “desperate financial situation”, regardless of who they are and what they believe.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 3 weeks ago:
They’re asking for donations because they lost the donations they were already getting.
Nope, not even the tiniest bit. We know how vital lemmy is, and want to secure its long-term future by being entirely sustained by donations. We never at any point reached that goal, and given that nutomic had a new baby, this is more important now than ever.
hemorrhaging donation money
I have no idea what this means. We’re paying our daily living expenses so we can comfortably work on lemmy without having to find other work. The costs are food and rent.
this whole operation is a way too flimsy if it’s depending on these two people, alone, forever.
I’d love to be able to grow our co-op, and add more developers! Donations make that possible too, especially if they exceed 2 average dev salaries (we’re a long way off from that).
What happens if they finally get another developer that really knows Rust and wants to join the project but doesn’t “fit in”? How are they actually going to expand the team so this project can grow and not be so dependent on them when they have the reputation they do?
It’s clear you’ve never tried, because we’ve never and would never reject code contributers for petty reasons like “not fitting in”. If ppl don’t want to work with communists, that’s on them. Personally I’d never reject someone for their ideology, especially if what they’re doing is FOSS, which serves the common good.
I would like to see this platform expand beyond them,
We don’t stop people from forking lemmy and never would, that’s entirely their right.
- Comment on 2025-03-15 Unplanned lemm.ee downtime 2 months ago:
We’ve been dealing with these too at lemmy.ml, don’t sweat it, we’ll figure it out. Happy bday! Hope it was a good one.
- Comment on A job well done 4 months ago:
Also, it’s not just people that punch you back, things punch you back too.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 4 months ago:
Mrs. Doubtfire or it’s not your fault
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 4 months ago:
Ooof, good movie.
- Comment on Anon wipes his ass 5 months ago:
Most bathrooms have sinks, you can just wet some toilet paper if there’s no bidet.
- Comment on Rip megafauna lol 1 year ago:
His delivery of that line makes the terminator so terrifying.
- Comment on Every base is base 10 1 year ago:
The alien has 4 fingers, and writes base 4 as “base 10”.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 1 year ago:
Then why focus on steam specifically, why not other required intermediaries, like turbines, the storage mechanism.
The main meaningful distinction in energy generation is the root sources of the energy, nuclear, wind, hydro, etc.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 1 year ago:
Steam isn’t the energy source tho, just a transfer mechanism.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 1 year ago:
I’m referring to the root energy source, rather than how it’s transferred.
- Comment on Door mat subscription is $29.99 per month 1 year ago:
Those rule. Like why carry around physical secrets unlockers if we don’t need to.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 1 year ago:
Happened to a family member, he was depressed for weeks. Like hundreds of dollars in those cases.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 1 year ago:
/uj Steam is just an intermediary form for almost all these tho (except maybe geothermal? not sure), not the real source.
- Comment on What does the "Chat" button do in comment threads? 3 years ago:
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? 3 years ago:
Wow coqui sounds really good, i'm gonna have find a command line thing of that.
- Submitted 3 years ago to opensource@lemmy.ml | 1 comment
- Comment on How do you fund your lemmy instance? 3 years ago:
You can use sshfs to store pictures on any machine you want. The
volumes/pictrsfolder is where they're stored. - Comment on What review websites do you use? 3 years ago:
Besteveralbums
- Comment on No longer getting email notifcations on lemmy.ml? 3 years ago:
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 3 years ago:
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_filterin theconfig.hjsonwill 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 3 years ago:
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? 3 years ago:
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? 3 years ago:
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? 3 years ago:
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 3 years ago:
!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? 3 years ago:
If someone wants their communities, they can do a request on !community_requests@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Supported Files for lemmy 3 years ago:
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? 3 years ago:
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).