Cool!
What is the biggest esport at the moment? Valorant, Counter Strike?
I even created a dedicated thread on !fedigrow@lemm.ee:
Cool name, I liked diagonlemmy too, they both sound good!
I think the HP fandom isn't that active anymore, after 15 years people probably moved on, and it's not like there is that much interesting new content being created
moving the community to a domain with the word soccer in it is a tough pill to swallow. As silly as it may sound, there’s a lot of people that don’t like having football referred to as soccer.
Sounds silly indeed, but I agree (https://feddit.org/comment/2048090 )
You are asking a consortium of different admins to collectively own those instances with you.
If the idea is that those other admins can take over should something happen to you, then it makes sense for them to assess whether the whole project is viable from a financial perspective, otherwise it would just lead to them closing most of the instances, which is just the same as them not owning those instances with you.
You can have a look at themes, those might be an option to make things more interesting: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes
I'm thinking in terms of costs because those could prevent any admins potentially interested in joining you to do so.
Lemmy.ml still runs on a server which costs 80€ per month (https://lemmy.ml/comment/13507604). A .ml domain name costs 61€ per year on gandi.
Your hosting costs are 2.5x higher, your domain costs are 27 times higher.
Maybe you'll find other admins who agree with you that it's worth it.
Just yesterday I renewed 10 of these domains. That cost me ~400€. I renewed nba.space and nfl.community last month, each cost ~650€. Running all these instances is costing me ~200€/month.
Thank you for providing the numbers, these domains are quite pricey if you have to pay 1700 € per year on domains alone.
Multi communities have been funded: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-09-11_-_New_NLnet_funding_for_Lemmy
On the other hand, Firefish have successors in Sharkey and IceShrimp
Kbin has mbin.
I assumed the first one was lotide, I didn't know about streams, interesting: https://codeberg.org/streams/streams
And very good explanation in https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/display/2add7e0c-fab9-4bea-8887-0e6296f0f453 indeed
Jumping in as I discussed this with @MrKaplan@lemmy.world, he told me the main issues preventing LW to update where
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2629 which isn't going to be released until 0.19.6, which breaks modlog filtering by moderator
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4693 is an issue that we might have to run a custom patch for to at least revert this for admins, although that would still harm mod experience then if we only implement an exception for admins
If a moderator is from a different instance, can they effectively moderate? So isn’t it a problem if all moderators would be from different instances?
Reports are still not federated
Yes, I haven’t had any issue moderating things from communick.news, even on communities that are not here.
Reports still do not federate, that's the main issue with federated moderation
You can also use https://quiblr.com/
More details here: https://quiblr.com/understanding_your_private_personalized_feed
We launched some threads dedicated to specific topics last month, you should find some communities that are interesting to you
I mean I’m hosting my own instance there.
Hello,
I'm curious, this is a personal PDS, so other people cannot register on it, right?
Yeah I don’t get why people are so judgy towards it here on lemmy.
The current state of Twitter probably makes people here very cautious about anything that might look similar to pre-Musk Twitter without any mechanism preventing such a scenario to happen again.
Thankfully, multicommunities have been funded: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-09-11_-_New_NLnet_funding_for_Lemmy
Hello everyone,
If you look at https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy?version=0.19.3, you see a few instances that host alternatives to LW communities
Lemmy 0.19.5, has been released on 19 June, we are now three months later.
I've been reaching out to a few of them
- https://programming.dev/post/17587331, and further on the instance Matrix: no planned schedule for updates
- For Lemdro.id, I reached out to their Matrix a first time in August, then another time this week, they told me they have no real schedule for the update, but that it might be done in November
- for Lemmy.one, there is this thread I posted there in early June (https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/we-re-giving-lemmy-a-try-welcome-to-privacyguides-lemmy-one-x-post/12734/7). I have been since then in contact with one of their mods in June, I offered to have more mods for their community (suggesting @otter@lemmy.ca as they already mod !privacy@lemmy.ca ), but they have never answered.
Now, important disclaimer
I am personally very thankful for those admins to manage those instances. I have been posting to those communities a lot to try to better decentralization,, and it's very generous of them to give their time, energy and infrastructure to run those instances.
On the other hand, having such long times between updates releases and the instance actually updating concerns me a bit, because it seems to show that those instances are relying on one single admin which could disappear overnight, and might also have trouble with reacting in case of incident.
I guess the opposite view is that it doesn't matter so much, they'll update when they update, and they probably don't prioritize those updates as much compared to an actual incident (which we saw back in the days with the federation issues between LW and Australia / New Zealand servers).
For people curious about LW (still running 0.19.3 as well), they told me they wanted to skip 0.19.5 due to this one issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2629 which if fixed in 0.19.6. It makes sense due the high number of mods they sometimes have per community).
That's it for me, curious to hear what you all think.
Source : https://old.reddit.com/comments/1fmcelm
Another thread : https://old.reddit.com/r/TheseFuckingAccounts/comments/1fmalro/advanced_chatgpt_bots_on_raskreddit/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20509588
> Here is an update that explains what we have been working on recently (apologies for not having these for a few months, summer vacations and all that). This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.
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> @privacyguard added Single-Sign-On (SSO) support to lemmy (this still needs some UI work and testing, but the bulk of the work is done). Special thanks to Privacy Portal for working on this!
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> @carlos-cabello added a way to filter posts by title only (and not body) when searching.
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> @Freakazoid182 added custom emoji and tagline views.
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> @nothing4u made our scheduled cleanup job delete denied users.
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> @sunaurus made a few image proxy fixes.
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> @sleepless has been working hard on lemmy-ui-leptos, which may eventually replace lemmy-ui. He made improvements to how posts are displayed; made SI formatting consistent with how the current UI handles it; added translations; added post content actions, creator, and community listings; and made some plugins for markdown-it.
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> @nutomic cleaned up the issue tracker by closing invalid issues and adding tags like good first issue. He also made some simple improvements, like adding a category to RSS feeds, fixing an issue with activitypub ids, and removing the enable_nsfw setting in favor of content_warning.
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> @dessalines integrated a new rust clearurls library into lemmy that will remove tracking params for any post or comment text (Much thanks to @jendrikw for creating this library), increased the bio max length from 300 to 1000, removes lemmy's reliance on openssl, made the list logins response more uniform, added the ability to restore content on an unban, added a default comment sort type for both the local site, and your user.
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> ### Support development
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The previous was is almost a month old, time for a refresher
And it’s scary. At least on the bigger subreddits. Just today I called out a user who had scammed someone of close to $300. And I doubt they...
Active = 1 post in the last seven days
Hello everyone,
I hope this is the good place to ask this question, if not, mods, feel free to remove it.
So as you may know, some LW mods on !world@lemmy.world and !politics@lemmy.world have been denying that the US government is supporting Israel in their attacks against Palestine.
In summary, their stance is > That is NOT why Biden is sending arms to Israel. Biden is rightly sending arms to Israel for the "Iron Dome" protection from outside aggression.
> Israel misappropriates that support for use in the genocide. That is NOT on Biden. That's on Bibi and the IDF.
> Biden is not complicit in any genocide. Full stop. Never has been.
For some detailed posts
- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27598404
- https://lemmy.world/post/18857058
Disclaimer:
- I live in Europe and am not a US citizen, so I might not know enough about the power split between the US President and other representative structures like the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- Linkerbaan, the other of the posts above, is usually suspected to be a Trump supporter or a Russian troll. That may be true or not, and they tend to be quite aggressive in the way they convey their message, but they still seem to make a few points.
The US President impact on providing weapons to Israel
A few recent articles about the US President responsibility about providing the arms to Israel
> Do you think that Kamala Harris is likely to agree with the calls for an arms embargo on Israel?
> I do not think she will agree with those calling for an arms embargo on Israel.
> For one thing, as vice president and before that as a senator, Kamala Harris has consistently supported providing U.S. military aid to Israel. This position is typical of most Democratic Party members, as well as most Republicans.
> Opponents of U.S. military aid to Israel often argue that this help is solely a function of domestic politics and reflects the power of the pro-Israel lobby, particularly AIPAC. I think that this view is myopic and exaggerates the power of the pro-Israel lobby. It ignores the fact that the U.S. has its own economic and strategic reasons for supplying that military aid. It is a U.S. national interest, not simply a favor for Israel, and that’s why there is broad, bipartisan support for continuing this military aid.
https://theconversation.com/us-is-unlikely-to-stop-giving-military-aid-to-israel-because-it-benefits-from-it-237290
> The Biden administration has been doing contortions to provide military support to Israel without reference to U.S. or international law. It paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs in May, citing concerns about civilian harm, and even admitted in a report to Congress that month that U.S. weapons had likely been used in ways inconsistent with the law. But the White House said it didn’t have enough evidence to prove that specific violations had occurred, which would have triggered a suspension of further weapons shipments.
> The evidence the Biden administration says it doesn’t have is everywhere. Careful investigations by the United Nations and organizations like mine have been documenting and reporting alleged violations since hostilities started in October, including Israeli forces’ unlawful airstrikes, the use of starvation as a method of warfare and torture of Palestinian detainees. The International Court of Justice has called on Israel three times to open Gaza’s crossings for aid shipments.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/10/debate-tip-candidates-theres-correct-answer-weapons-israel
The fear of Trump
The main argument usually used against people who point that the US President has an impact on the weapons supply to Israel is that
- the Democrats are the lesser evil
- Trump must not pass
While it is generally admitted that indeed Trump was a bad president and should indeed not pass, why do people go all the way to deny the impact of the US President on that matter?
Wouldn't it possible to both say that Kamala should pass, but at the same time condemn the actions of the US government on that matter?
Genuinely curious, as in Europe is it quite established that the US government chooses to keep providing weapons to Israel.
- https://www.rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/20240814-les-%C3%A9tats-unis-%C3%A9trillent-isra%C3%ABl-tout-en-approuvant-la-vente-de-20-milliards-de-dollars-d-armement
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67192779
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423
> This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities. > > I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.) > > I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community. > > Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map: > > https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map
Active = at least 1 post last week
Hello everyone,
As you may know, recently I started a few threads on specific categories of communities
- manual hobbies
- video games
- music
- animals
- art
- fandoms
- casual conversations
- etc.
Feel free to have a look at the recent threads in this community, most of them are there.
We might restart that cycle at some point (maybe next week). In the meantime, do you think there is any topic which should have their own thread that we haven't covered yet?
Trying to figure this out as in the recent threads a few people said that Bluesky was federated, but it didn't seem to actually be the case.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web in February announced that Bluesky would allow federated servers
The Bluesky documentation on the topic isn't very clear. They mention Bluesky.social a lot, as if it's supposed to be the one central server other PDS need to federate with:
> Bluesky runs many PDSs. Each PDS runs as a completely separate service in the network with its own identity. They federate with the rest of the network in the exact same manner that a non-Bluesky PDS would. These PDSs have hostnames such as morel.us-east.host.bsky.network.
> However, the user-facing concept for Bluesky's "PDS Service" is simply bsky.social. This is reflected in the provided subdomain that users on a Bluesky PDS have access to (i.e. their default handle suffix), as well as the hostname that they may provide at login in order to route their login request to the correct service. A user should not be expected to understand or remember the specific host that their account is on.
> To enable this, we introduced a PDS Entryway service. This service is used to orchestrate account management across Bluesky PDSs and to provide an interface for interacting with bsky.social accounts.
https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/entryway#account-management
> Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider Bluesky social network.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#what-is-the-current-status-of-federation
The custom domain name is still something else, and does not seem to require a PDS: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial
So, to come back to the title question, do people know of an example of PDS that can be used to access Bluesky without being on the main server?
Following up on this post: https://feddit.org/post/2379333/1762691
An list of potential memes: https://feddit.org/post/2379333/1722394
A meme posted to !fediverselore@lemmy.ca : https://feddit.org/post/2421485
@Emperor@feddit.uk already expressed interest.
For me, there are a few pros and cons.
Pros:
- Memes are an easy way to convey a message
- Fediverse-specific content is always nice
Cons
- Memes communities tend to be very popular
- Due to the topic of the community, there might be some heated debates and discussions in the comments (the example above with the vegan cat food is a good example). That might be quite time-consuming to follow and moderate
Based on this, I think we would need probably at least 5 mods to make sure the community stays sufficiently moderated.
Are any of you interested?
Question triggered by the other post about instances shutting down due to costs
Summary of the answers:
- lowest number so far: lemmy.ml with 0.03€ per user per month
- a few others (feddit.uk, lemmy.zip) have around 0.11$ per user per month
- obviously single user instance have higher costs
