Yeah I’ve had email verification on since the first bot signup wave like a year ago and we have a few on the list here.

Sigh…

I’ll look into it. Thanks for pointing them out.

I wait a few days or so to see if they’re planning on an emergency release to fix new bugs they didn’t catch but I’ve found upgrading fairly easy, though I have a dedicated and fairly bog standard install and a smaller instance.

They’d’ve had to tag a Lemmy community to make that work.

Good riddance to burggit. Manny legitimate complaints but absolutely good riddance.

Of tank man? The guy in the famous photo?

Where’s the picture of this? I’ve never heard that before. It doesn’t appear in his Wikipedia page, it just says there nobody knows what happened to him after.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Thanks again @[email protected] for making a great client but also thanks for contributing back to Lemmy as a whole!

I wonder who they were trolling and brigading in the years of their existence prior to them federating with anyone…

That’s true but there’s still a difference between power user and spambot.

I’d really like a spam-signup type detector. Like if someone signs up and immediately starts posting or commenting way too much they should be given a few days ban, and if done again - permanently.

I’m sure they’re probably not okay with it but also there’s not much they can do about it other than defederate .ml - such is the nature of open source software.

Unfortunately in the fediverse changing your domain isn’t really possible. You basically have to start over.

What missing features are so important that you decide to recreate the entire backend of Lemmy because you think the devs aren’t fast enough?

Remember to make regular backups, kiddos.

Hey buddy can a pal get the recipe?

As an instance admin it seems incredibly irresponsible to allow my server to spoon feed Meta my users data and activity through federation.

And Meta proved many, many times that they are utterly untrustworthy.

I’m on an incredibly small instance that self reports costs at about $18 USD/month

If I really wanted to shoestring it, I could definitely get it lower. But I did want some headroom to grow, and to operate semi-professionally. With the recent upgrades we should be good for a while.

(Also if anyone wants to jump to a small instance, thelemmy.club has some room :)

As someone not residing in the EU, I don’t see how they could possibly enforce that. Best they could do is block my instance I suppose. Have they done that for any small site?

I mean, I would delete/provide all data of any user who requests me to do so for themselves. But I’m likely following every facet of the GDPR.

I’d imagine it would be the same way it worked on Reddit when there were multiple communities with identical topics/similar names:

One gets a bit larger, therefore shows up in feeds more, appears higher in search results, etc.

Unless the other community has some kind of differentiation, it will wither and die.

And everything will be fine.

I keep seeing people being this up as if it’s some huge problem. There’s tons of /c/memes out there, but [email protected] is clearly the place to go. It’s not confusing, IMO.

You have to be signed in to see the actual porn lol