I need a list of which ones don't allow assholes to enter. :)
I'm not sure about that. What if advertising were used to cover server costs, just like donations right now? Then the community may be fine with it.
But I think it's very dangerous to go down that route. Because it's going to become about higher profits, not just covering costs, in the long run.
What you can do is install wireguard server at home and then set your phone to use that wireguard connection always. That's what I do and then my pihole at home filters all my mobile traffic as well.
You can rent an instance for like 10 dollars per month and grow from there. Then expand if you get users and things get slow. Lemmy runs ok on 4 GB of memory but it's better with 8 GB. Postgres use the most.
It's what we all loved about the internet I think, before the web become... "that" (looking at the pile of shit the web has become).
But actually it's not the web, not really. It's the big tech platforms that most people seem to think is the internet now. It's sad to watch how people log on to "Facebook" and not the general web anymore. And then Google in front of everything, like a big cancer growth.
Lemmy is not the new internet either I believe. But it's here to show people that something else can exist. As soon as we let advertising in here though, it's over.
Thank you very much :) I added some glue to this post to give it a bit more attention since I'm super happy for the help and appreciate it a lot.
I haven't written that much about myself either before. But I can say that I also grew up with computers in the 80s and 90s. And I also had my own BBS back then, so thanks for the nostalgia trip! Sometimes I miss it a lot. The community feeling was incredible since so few people were doing things like that. The ones that did were similar to a lot of Lemmy users and curious about new technology and ways of doings things.
And just like @Buelldozer@lemmy.today here, I have zero interest in any power tripping. I like to keep a low profile most of the time and when something happens, I try to do the best I can to fix it. This instance is here because I want people to have an alternative to big tech platforms that are abusing and disrespecting their users. And I plan to stay in the background as much as possible, because this instance is not about me or buelldozer - it's about you guys and building a community around Lemmy. :)
Oh shit, uneasy feelings for managers... :)
Clearly a national emergency.
I think eventually, some people will be OK with paying 5 dollars per month for a YouTube competitor that is better than the original. Much like Kagi is doing for search engines. It won't be for the majority since they still expect free stuff and no ads, which doesn't work.
I have tried to contact the mod and hoping for a response within a day...
Thank you for tagging me @Allero@lemmy.today . It's the best way to quickly get my attention.... I will look into it.
This is like asking the burglar to investigate his own crime in a way, isn't it?
I don't know what happened with the virus of course, but trusting what US intelligence agencies are saying, isn't that a bit gullible?
If you are a new user to Lemmy, the most important thing is to subscribe to lots of communities so you get a nice feed of new posts and comments.
Click on Communities link at the top and select All. A long list of communities will appear. Subscribe to many of them. You can always unsubscribe if they are annoying you later.
This list of communities are only the ones that someone has subscribed to on this instance already. But there is something like 20.000+ communities in the entire lemmy network.
Go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities in a new tab. If you want to subscribe to something here, copy the link (ex: !humor@beehaw.org).
Paste that link into the search box here at lemmy.today. Make sure Communities is selected in the list box to filter out comments etc.
It should look like this:
Clicking on the green link will take you to the community and you can click Subscribe on the upper right:
And thats about it. If you have any questions, just ask. :)
Hi guys,
Lemmy.today was just updated to 0.18.3 that came out yesterday.
Major changes
This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.
The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.
In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.
Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.
I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it.
Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.
Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.
Well I prefer it being warm in the end times than cold. :)