Got the reverse proxy banner replacement working:
I do not wish to maintain a git fork of the software. If someone else wants to take on that mantle, they're more than welcome. I already have enough on my plate. I'm already maintaining the Matrix, Kbin, and this very instance. The few times I used git, I found it frustrating to use.
I compiled the nsfw patched version thanks to the lemmynsfw guys. Logged out users should see what's in store. (inb4 they just fap and close the window lol.)
I still need to figure out how to label the version we're on so that they're displayed at the bottom. But I'll figure that out at another time.
Because the Reddit protests faltered because of spineless powermods who wanted to hold onto their little bit of power, I think this is all the users we're going to get. I've been messing around on our sister kbin instance because it gets us a better view of the broader fediverse that's outside of the narrow scope of what are admittedly mostly 1:1 Reddit clones Lemmy seems to cover. Outragebait included.
I feel like we've turned into mainly a porn dumping ground and less of a discussion oriented community which decreases people's willingness to engage with others on here. It's a mostly 20:1 lurker to contributors ratio. I definitely lurk here most of the time too, so I'm just as guilty as the lurkers who are too shy to say anything on here.
It's all word of mouth at this point. Anybody who had interest in migrating away from Reddit has already done so. It takes a lot to get someone who's firmly entrenched on another platform to sign up for a different site anymore. If you so much as mention a requirement to sign up to partake, they almost immediately will shoot you down. We have easy SSO solutions like Google to thank for this amount of laziness and apathy. If you can't sign in to a site with just a Google account to start chatting, you might as well not exist.
I really wish I knew of an easy solution to draw more users here, but I don't think there is, sadly, because of the aforementioned above.
I only found this after going down a rabbit hole of looking into one of their admins after seeing one of their admins unjustly label us as a "pedo instance." I'm not going to append a screenshot of that because he talks shit about one of our users who go here in that same assburgers fueled diatribe.
Call this drama seeking, but I honestly don't care. The level of disrespect I've had leveled at me and our instance by the wider Lemmy community has my patience wearing thin.
Lemmy was a fun experiment, but window lickers who have narcissistic complexities have got to ruin it, unfortunately. I really should've backed kbin since it seems like the wider fediverse (AKA the fun side) is more accessible compared to, "We've got to act like super serious corporations, but without any professionalism" Lemmyverse.
So they peered through their user list, which isn't really an easy thing for them to do.. And banned you? Really living up to the Reddit mod who does it for free moniker.
For a piracy instance, it sure is ran by someone who might be mistaken for being anti-piracy and pro authority. What did you even say to get banned?
For the record, I browse r/piracy because I can't stomach the admin of that site. Disgusting abuse of power.
Should clarify after hastily writing this post. Meme/viral videos that have kids that are the subject matter are allowed. Think stuff in the style of "America's Funniest Videos," or r/kidsarefuckingstupid. Anything that can be construed as sexual isn't allowed at all. (If you have to ask, it probably isn't allowed)
Also, to add: Thank fuck for Borg. It's one of the few backup solutions that hasn't corrupted itself just from doing incremental backups.
Yeah. A big chunk of discussion takes place on here. So if you're more into that then this is the place you want to be.
To add, the admin hates our guts.
You appear to be already using Cloudflare so it might be doing a "good" enough job to combat spambots and other adversaries.
Since I don't much like cloudflare, my instance uses Crowdsec which uses a crowd sourced block list aggregated from other servers to block out nasty IPs that have a bad reputation for attempting to run automated exploits, spam, overzealous crawlers, and other assorted nasty stuff on said servers that the list is crowdsourced from. A lot of Tor exit nodes, to no surprise, are on that list too.
Idk this is something that might pique your interest if you want to further harden your setup.
A lot of our issues were due to the growing pains of our host who, don't get me wrong, promptly responded and fixed issues as they popped up. The big reason we stuck with him is because he went to bat for us when someone did their typical crybully shit and tried to go above us and get us censored by our ISP despite the infringing content being completely legal in the country that the host is in.
I highly recommend kyun.host for this very reason because they will promptly tell any complainer to fuck off so long as the host they're complaining about isn't doing anything illegal. It really is censorship resistant.
I'd get pinged all the time on our Matrix that the server is down or is slow and other stuff which caused the components of the server, namely pictrs to crash and exhibit undefined behavior, since our image storage host was accessed via an NFS share to a spinning rust server with more ample storage mounted through a Wireguard tunnel. With each server going down all the time, it'd cause Lemmy to seriously break and require a manual fix to get it going again. Over time, I've gotten kinda burnt out from maintaining the site and slowly just mostly stopped using it altogether aside from a cursory glance every now and again to make sure it was still working, due to my increasingly waning lack of interest in perusing the site.
If it wasn't for the funding issues, this instance probably would've remained on the same path to being shutdown just at a later date, most likely. Just because it's too much for one person to maintain given all these situations along with the software still being of a beta quality piling onto our already existing issues. And frankly, I don't have fun using it anymore and honestly completely dread working on it.
I absolutely refuse to create an account on any of the popular instances, which would probably end up in a repeat of the Lemmy Admin Matrix room situation where I laughably got permanently banned on sight for "CSAM" even though I never posted any such thing, rofl. So I'll leave this here, the hyperlink in that post references their Fediseer tool:
This is precisely another reason why I'm glad we're shutting down, the threadiverse is so stifling that we have to be on our best behavior or else we get labeled through your dumb Fediseer tool. Sometimes wrongly, (IE: calling us bigots when we fully support the trans movement, as well as the overall LGBTQ movement as a whole, and any movement that's focused on minorities.) labeling us as a bad instance. The fact that your tool doesn't allow instances to opt out can create a completely slanderous situation if a clique of high profile instances decide that they don't like you.
Burggit will live on in a frankly more fun microblogging fork of Misskey, called Sharkey in the wider fediverse. A big chunk of which, will not give two shits about the reputations passed down to instances by this tool wielded by a clique of popular Lemmy instances whose behavior would make a typical Reddit powermod blush, since it takes itself way less seriously: dill.burggit.moe