I’m not sure about that. What if advertising were used to cover server costs, just like donations right now? Then the community may be fine with it.

But I think it’s very dangerous to go down that route. Because it’s going to become about higher profits, not just covering costs, in the long run.

What you can do is install wireguard server at home and then set your phone to use that wireguard connection always. That’s what I do and then my pihole at home filters all my mobile traffic as well.

You can rent an instance for like 10 dollars per month and grow from there. Then expand if you get users and things get slow. Lemmy runs ok on 4 GB of memory but it’s better with 8 GB. Postgres use the most.

It’s what we all loved about the internet I think, before the web become… “that” (looking at the pile of shit the web has become).

But actually it’s not the web, not really. It’s the big tech platforms that most people seem to think is the internet now. It’s sad to watch how people log on to “Facebook” and not the general web anymore. And then Google in front of everything, like a big cancer growth.

Lemmy is not the new internet either I believe. But it’s here to show people that something else can exist. As soon as we let advertising in here though, it’s over.

I’ve been there a few times, but will log in more and catch up. :)

In all for trying it. Will enable it tomorrow then. Thanks!

Thank you, it does make sense. We will enable it tomorrow. This thread changed my mind. :)

Yeah it makes sense. After reading all the arguments here, I guess if it helps to slow down spammers, it’s a good idea. Let’s do it. :)

I will enable it tomorrow and I would be very grateful for some extra admin help. I will contact you tomorrow. :)

Yeah I didnt see this until now. Thanks!

There has been a huge wave of spam accounts recently, and I recognize some of the names on this list. Of course these accounts gets banned quickly.

Getting a fake email address is really easy, so I don’t think it makes any difference whatsoever. On fastmail which im using, I can even create fake ones with a click on a button. It’s built into the service to have different emails for different sites.

Having closed signups will not stop any spam accounts. It just adds a delay between registration and being able to log in. There is no way to know if it’s a spam account or not before they sign in. Of course, some of the names in the list makes it obvious, but they just change to ordinary sounding names then.

I think it’s frustrating for new users to have to wait for a random time period to get accepted, specially when it serves no purpose. I’m not going to be any wiser if I approve the registration now or 12 hours later.

Or am I wrong? I haven’t been a troll myself but seems like I would just spend 30 mins to make accounts in random instances and then fire off my bot a few hours later or on the day after.

How do you know which accounts are spam accounts before they even started posting?

If the spammers and trolls manage to make you defederate from Lemmy.today, they will pick another instance. And every defederation will continue to make the fediverse smaller and more centralized. Sooner or later, small instances may even stop accepting new users for fear of being defederated from the larger network.

I would like to stop having these spam accounts and trolls on the instance. I could add email verification but it won’t make a difference and just make it more annoying for new users. I really don’t want to punish them for what trolls and spammers are doing.

But sure, I prefer it to defederation. So if you think it makes a difference, I could add it just as a sign of good faith. But it’s really a pointless gesture.

But it says in the OP that this thread should be used for posting questions for the AMA?

What are the plans around admin tools?

Instance owners currently gets notified when someone has reported a user for spamming or trolling, but frequently it’s a user that is not on his instance, so he can’t do anything about it. Wouldn’t it be better if instance owners got notified only when they can take actual action (like the user being registered on their instance)?

No I was just being stupid.

The default settings didnt have a redirect so you were getting the default nginx web page since you went to the http version.

Now you should be redirected. Thanks for taking the time to bounce a few pixels back and forth. :)

You dont bother me, this is very interesting actually…

You still get this default nginx page?

It does actually redirect already, just checked.

Maybe you got unlucky and the internet ghosts stole your packets. :)

Nah, i just forgot the s in https in the link i posted. :)

Fixed it now, thank you.

I updated http://lemmy.today this morning and no problems at all.

We are a small instance but still wanted to post this. Maybe it calms the nerves for some instance owners. :)

But can it do excel? /s

Now that you mention it, yes.

I went into some random posts and the comment count is higher than the actual existing comments.

I think without the constant attempts from big tech at making people “engage” (meaning, making them upset and alienated from eachother so they post something), we have a good chance. :)

I love it. And notice how most people are incredibly nice to eachother here? I remember when browsing reddit sometimes, it was easy to feel like people were really trying to insult eachother, push eachother down and act like they were the smartest little person ever to be born on the planet.

I see none of that here. Its such a wonderful place right now.