Removed by mod

they are now on a modern variant of lemmy, but still pretty customized. There is a small compatibility issue with mobile apps being worked on but otherwise yes. I believe they are workign on porting their changes to v0.18.1 of lemmy now.

the lemmy.world people are doing fine. before launching the lemmy server they were taking in significantly more than their costs in donations https://blog.mastodon.world/

lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world and it is already donation funded. They post financial updates on their blog: https://blog.mastodon.world/

they have been funded by grants from NLnet (I think from EU funds?) but I think are transitioning to donation-based.

Just to get it out of the way: there are obviously some issues with lemmy discoverability and quantity of content

But to be blunt: this is not the kind of user lemmy needs right now, he won’t be missed. He doesn’t want to join a community, he wants to scroll a feed that is pre-curated for him. And to be honest, that is most redditors, for better or for worse, but the core of the site, what gives it most of its value besides just scale, is powerusers and mods who will see: “oh there isn’t a formula1 comm yet? I’ll make one”. Boom. Problem solved. among a userbase of thousands there will be other people who want to talk about F1, but you need at least one person to be engaged enough to create the community and post to it once in a while.

This perspective is fundamentally self-defeating if you want to get an alternative off the ground. It will take off if people get into it, and it won’t if they don’t

AFAIK they are using the same metric as the lemmy crawler, which just calls the site API endpoint and grabs the users/month number which is visible in the sidebar. And the code for that is public

yes I believe reports only go to your instance, let me see if I can find the relevant discussion in the matrix chat from a couple days ago

I know the ability to, as a user, block an entire instance has been requested, so it may show up.

Nope, the ability to disable downvotes instance wide was added in v0.6.0 back in 2020 by Dessalines, and received some patches last year in 0.16.3

it’s also been the default on hexbear.net for the past several years

blocking whole servers because of disagreements over blocklists (not over the actual content of said servers) seems pretty silly, though its probably case by case IMO.

Banning users based on stuff that they’ve posted just seems reasonable, at least in some cases. If they’re posting nazi shit over on some other instance but keep it only to wink wink nudge nudge dogwhistles on your instance where the rules are stricter, then its no huge loss to ban them for remote content. Quite the opposite in fact.

No matter how politely stated your disagreement is, if it boils down to “I don’t think I should have to respect trans people’s identity”/“I don’t think trans people should have rights” then it’s transphobic and I’m 1000% fine with that being bannable

depends how the law is written. on lemmy uploaded images are not federated, they are just embedded links to the instance of the uploader.

the lemmy source code is public

hexbear is currently running an old version of lemmy that doesn’t support the v3 API or federation. migration to a more modern lemmy is in progress

Longtime hexbear.net user, not really new but becoming more active since the reddit enshittification wave hit lemmy. I need an account to follow things over here and combat libs in the lemmy.ml comments

It’s back now. it was either a glitch the last time the scan ran to see what instances are up and fetch stats, or the admins saw the message on matrix pointing it out and fixed it

Water from Kakhovka Reservoir supplies water for cooling the 5.7 GW Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and to irrigate areas of southern Ukraine and northern Crimea via the North Crimean Canal and Dnieper–Kryvyi Rih Canal.[7]

Russia famously loves cutting off their own water supplies/important infrastructure. Really hope the intakes for that nuclear plant are deep

And I think the biggest performance boost would be to separate the application and postgresql onto different servers.

I think hexbear.net (an older lemmy fork-ed site) is working on this in conjunction with moving back to a modern lemmy version

Cloudflare does have the ability to spy on traffic though, they hold SSL keys.