Hey that’s awesome, thanks for starting it, I look forward to see what comes next!

Good tip, thank you.

I’ve changed it, I hope you like it!

The offer is still there for you to play with the colors.

Anything illegal, porn, shit promoting pedophilia (even when it tries to be cute and do so vaguely). Those are the things I have no tolerance for.

Can you tweak the colors in photoshop or something and repost it here? I’ll just use them to update it properly when I get a chance later.

How about this?

Alternatively, do you want to have a play with the colors yourself? I’m open to anything.

Alright I’ll try it!

Hey welcome, I look forward to seeing them grow!

https://lemdit.com/c/stuff is for anything, general chat, etc.

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 that is by now almost 10 years old, it runs perfectly on Linux and is a fantastic choice even today. It’s built like a tank and that Intel i5 powering it is immortal. DDR3 RAM is dirt cheap now and it takes up to 16Gb, you can swap its HDD to a SATA SSD (if not done already) and batteries for it are still cheap and plentiful.

If you’re looking for something affordable for software dev, I can’t think of a better choice for $200-$300

https://www.lenovo.com/lt/lt/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t430/

They really built this one right, they don’t make them like this anymore.

This is a Lemmy-ui bug, not related to CDN/cache.

I had submitted a bug report for it some time ago but it’s not that urgent in the great scheme of things so they didn’t get around to it yet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1865

(the report speaks about this happening after you log in, but it’s the same thing).

Awesome project and the tool looks great - nice work!

There was an existing tool which was similar: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

Yours is definitely nicer.

Oh hey, thanks!

I also don’t subscribe to the lemmy.world interpretation of what is legally compromising, so we are not going to follow in their footsteps.

I thought I’d mention this since it’s a hot topic recently and people might be spooked.

I think you’re right, he probably ended up here by chance. I didn’t see any problem with the old mascot either, but maybe soft and cartoony is misinterpreted by some people so I thought I’d send a message with the new one.

He’s certainly trying hard to find a place that will take him.

It really is incredible, he has other similar communities, active accounts on pretty much all major platforms, even a YouTube channel where he makes animated videos in support of these ideas (doesn’t appear in the video / doesn’t use his real voice).

The amount of effort he puts into this is insane, nobody does this unless they are personally very invested in the cause.

I was in the “wtf am I reading” camp initially too, but it became clearer the more he posted. You would be amazed at how much similar shit I’ve discovered from this individual once I started digging into it.

Please let me know if you notice anything off.

That project is a great find, thanks! A real time saver, I should have these marked up shortly.

I’ll do some more thinking on how we represent Cloudflare instances in general, I think for the time being I may just include a short note for them as people will wonder why they’re marked anyway.

Edit: This is now done, all Cloudflare instances marked and an explanation added.

No worries, and thank you for the offer to help, I will keep it in mind.

Thanks! I’m not advertising Lemdit at all, only those that discover it on their own stay and I like that, I think it mostly attracts quality people. Lemdit will never be a large instance, I think ~1k people is probably its workable ceiling before other problems start to emerge (admin related rather than hardware), but we’ll see what the future holds. We’re a long way from that right now.

Yes the potato is… a well grown one :)

I don’t mind at all.

I love the idea of self-hosted services in general. It’s a fun hobby and hosting things that other people find useful makes me feel like I’m giving something back. Privacy is also something that is important to me on principle.

Before Lemmy I used to host a few public alternative front-ends for major platforms, such as Invidious for YouTube, Nitter for Twitter, or Libreddit for Reddit, etc. I’ve never been a massive Reddit user, in fact I never had a registered account, but I used Libreddit quite a bit. The changes Reddit was making to its API were also going to kill Libreddit, which is how I became aware of it.

Reddit was not alone in their crackdown either. YouTube recently threatened the devs of Invidious with legal action, Nitter is being chipped away at by Musk’s changes (but somehow keeps getting resurrected), etc. Alternative front-ends, while a very ingenious way to evade the dystopian tracking on these platforms, are a losing battle unfortunately. Federated services have the promise of something new entirely.

So I looked into Lemmy and it appeals to me a lot more than Mastodon ever did. I think it’s a format that works well as a federated platform (growing pains notwithstanding). So I decided to ditch my alternative privacy front ends and go all in on making the Fediverse work for everyone, in whatever small way I can.

So that’s how Lemdit was born. I already had the servers, the fast connectivity and the know-how, so it felt like the right thing to do.

My investment into Lemdit is mostly my time and effort, it otherwise doesn’t cost me very much to run. This makes Lemdit fairly sustainable, since I’m not fighting an ever increasing hosting bill every month like most other instances that host via VPS - this post explains more about our setup if you’re curious: https://lemdit.com/post/13

Hey, welcome to Lemdit!

I agree that there are still many growing pains that Lemmy has to overcome. As you say, the Fediverse may not be much yet, but at least it’s heading in the right direction.

Wanting to have a back-up instance makes sense. I’m glad you chose Lemdit and that you like what you see. You are more than welcome here, irrespective of where you’re from.

Enjoy!

On desktop I mostly just use the default too, but that’s also for practical reasons to do admin-y things.

I like Voyager on mobile (m.lemdit.com), especially if I just want to browse, but I also use the default there too.

I like browsing through the rest from time to time, it’s interesting how your perception changes based on how the front-end displays the content.