It broke on me which is how I found out about the depreciation, but I don’t remember the details to be fair.

I’m pretty sure that stopped working months ago…

You’ve probably been running out of date containers.

I feel like there’s probably hundreds who post at least once a month

I believe it’s three instances that were picked for the moment, including mine (I’m the admin) which has been going for nearly 3 years. I think their logic is to spread people out from the big instances.

I would want to know the answer to questions such as: (1) are there multiple people on the instance admin team, (2) are they well-funded, since a negative answer to either of those might mean that the server disappears six months from now, which is a major inconvenience.

I mean I think most people ending up on that page probably don’t even know to ask. They may have no familiarity with fediverse software or what the hell an instance is. They just want to sign up to this reddit alternative they heard about.

It’s a hard balance for sure.

Yep that was a change a while back. Choice makes some people think there’s too much effort involved so the first recommendation is a random “general” server. You can still see the list if you want.

Infuse is great…

If you pay. I’d love an alternative tho

Traditional, old school forums.

They’ve been around forever but just recently become federated software.

Pinning your versions just means updating will be a pain, and you’ll probably start running outdated containers that are security risks.

It’s not like you’re doing code audits every updates anyway. Just use containers that are established and seem trustworthy. It’s all you can really do.

Fortunately such laws do not seem forthcoming in my country, and I have yet to see how not following the laws of other countries will be able to meaningfully affect us.

Yep. As a Fediverse admin that’s basically it. Until there are legal or financial consequences there will be no ID verification. If I am forced… Well my instance will be disabled. Simple as that unfortunately.

In the olden days it was called WefWef

He was, but probably moved their when it became clear that Bluesky was the winner of the 2022 Twitter exodus. At least for the time being.

I don’t get it. Huh? I find sentiment on .ml extremely anti-Zionist.

A lot of clients will do it automatically. Voyager for instance.

I’m sure you Mastodon users have more famous users.

https://lemmyverse.link/startrek.website/post/35769143

https://lemmyverse.link/startrek.website/post/35769143

Hey there, do you have a Matrix account? Most of the active Lemmy instance admins have a group chat. Well two actually, one for technical chats and such and one where we ping each other about spam/problematic accounts/etc.

DM me @bdonvr:matrix.org and I can get you an invite (unless you’re already there under a different name and I missed it)

On S3 storage it’s a monthly cost, so it’ll add up over the years.

I’m a small instance.

In 3 years my pict-rs S3 bucket has grown to over 1.2TB

Yeah disable it. I’m not sure why I didn’t before.

Turning it off completely means that theoretically I could expose a users IP. Say I DM them a unique photo URL. Zero click and I got that. Lemmy’s default UI blocks that but some apps like Voyager don’t. Or you could reply to an old comment which makes it very likely they’ll be the only ones to see it.

I turned on proxy-ing.