Nobody is guessing this one
Global warming, but it is totally propaganda-based stupidity
You don't have to trust everything you read online or see on TV to notice for your own self that the weather is getting weird in recent years, compared to how it used to be. Typically warmer, and it's happening pretty much no matter where you live.
Extremely new to all of this. If each can have the same name, then would that mean one instance of a lemmy “subreddit” that share the same name not be able to see the other?
Nope! That's why community names are often formatted like community@website. As many instances can use the same community name as they like, everyone can see and individually interact with each of them. Even if two communities are both named tech, they are still distinct from one another by the website that's hosting them.
I would also appreciate it if things would generally just stay still and stop updating while I'm trying to look at them, especially the posts timeline.
Hopefully this will come with the work that I know is going on right now to use HTTP instead of websockets in lemmy-ui. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1081
I promise I understand what I’m talking about, building for scale on a global level is what I do for a living. I also know something about open source projects, having co-founded Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation and serving as its Director of Operations.
I'm not calling into question your qualifications. I do think you have misunderstood how lemmy works.
The lemmy.ml website could go dark tomorrow, completely offline, and lemmy would continue to exist and the software would continue to need maintenance and optimization. Those GitHub issues are for improvements that will help everyone, not only people using lemmy.ml specifically.
If you persuade lemmy.ml's admins to deploy a load balancer and whatever else, that doesn't help me. It doesn't help anyone who's hosting an instance that isn't lemmy.ml, which is most of them. It's arguable whether it even helps the admins and users of lemmy.ml itself, since half the point of federation is to not funnel users into one massive canonical instance that everyone is using. But if you write documentation or share automation tools that guide anyone on making their other federated instances more scalable, or if you contribute to lemmy's source code to make improvements there, then that helps everyone. It improves lemmy the federated network as opposed to improving only the single inconsequential instance that is lemmy.ml.
Nowadays, depending on the legislation of wherever you live, there might be requirements for a minimum amount of information you need to log and preserve for a minimum amount of time, and restrictions on what information you can’t log and need to remove after a certain amount of time, or upon request provide to users, delete, or save apart.
You're not wrong, but I don't think anyone is actually trying to enforce this for small-scale things like personal websites or lemmy instances.
any good imgur alternatives? I know they’re doing similar shenanigans to reddit to prep for IPO
My understanding of the imgur situation is that you should actually be fine for now, provided that you're signed into an account when you upload, and not using it for explicit content.
...Though I hope you have an account that you already registered some time ago, before they started requiring a phone number, if you didn't want to share your phone with them.
That’s not how this works. Lemmy itself may be open source, but the instance it runs on is not. All the work in work in the world on the Lemmy codebase won’t mean anything if its actual deployment is not built for scale, and that’s not anything anyone but the admins can do anything about.
That's not how this works.
Lemmy doesn't run on an instance. It runs on everyone's instances. If lemmy should be deployed differently, then the first thing that would be needed is documentation and automated tools that make it easier for everyone to deploy their instances that way. You might be using lemmy.ml, but I'm not!
For what it’s worth, I have offered my expertise to the admins around networking, security, scale, and automation.
It's open source. That's what's great about it, the pro that beats out all those cons. You don't have to offer anything to anyone, you can just start contributing.
Even the vast majority of people who “quit reddit move to lemmy” will likely return in a few months, and that’s what Reddit’s banking on.
Even with third-party apps gone I don't expect to leave reddit entirely. But I will certainly be on reddit a lot less if there's no usable phone app.
It's not a bad start, necessarily, it's just extremely misleading to say it has anything to do with RARBG. In its current form this is a crappy, less usable reskin of 1337x.to that just somewhat visually resembles RARBG. It doesn't look like you've even bothered to add any of the archived RARBG magnet links to your database.
Is your name Richard?