Edge also uses chromium

I remember being in a PS2 outfit (aka clan) when the building was released.
We optimised a base build for 12 people (a squad), ensuring everything was covered by repairs, the sky shield capping the walls.
It was beautiful.
We could build it incredibly quickly, and it could last against a platoon for a decently fun amount of time.

Unfortunately, there was no point in attacking/defending player bases at the time. We would often have to poke an enemy faction to fight us

That is some excellent context, thanks.
I know a few streamers that have been chatting about kick. The gambling origin/backing makes it seem sketchy AF.

This is how mixr - or whatever it was called - died out.
They bought in a couple big streamers expecting the rest to follow.
But what makes twitch so good are the smaller communities.
They often play niche games, have their own fantastic history, raiding each other, nice people, nice streamer interactions.

Some streamers I know have talked about kick. Apparently they are offering a 95% split.
I know twitch is probably extremely inefficient, but if twitch is struggling with a 50/50 split, how the fuck can kick maintain a 95/5 split? And if you move your entire community to another platform, just for that platform to die?

YouTube is probably in the best position to rival Twitch.
But their live stream system and discovery is severely lacking

Gmail is probably squeezed in on the servers running GSuite (the business version of Gmail). And I imagine it’s very profitable from small/mid even large businesses.

Same with maps.
There will be companies that have tracking and planning software built ontop of maps, and for these uses it requires API keys.

General users using it for free will provide great information and data (eg, detecting/tracking traffic jams), but their usage probably “fits” around the paid usage

I personally use cloudns as DN server. It’s fine. It was good before a lot of other services were developed. No idea what the kids are using these days. But cloudns gives me full control over records, decent enough interface, 2fa, and has an acme/letsencrypt API.
I buy the domains from whomever, and change the NS records to cloudns. This bit is messy, but I also have geo-located domains that only some registrars can manage.

Cloudflare is well known, and have their own registrar.
I’m sure Amazon has similar.
I’ve heard namecheap and porkbun are decent.
Like I said, no idea what the cool kids are using

I feel like this gets asked a lot on homelab and selfhosted over on reddit. Some google-fu will probably help.

It’s not forcing a sub to open.
It’s removing mods that are squatting on a sub or vandalising a sub, as per described in the mod guidelines.
Whether the new mods that Reddit instates open the sub or not is up to the new mods.

They can say the first and do the second. The mods they instate will open the sub.

That’s not a hot take.
That’s where I think the threadiverse/lemmyverse/fediverse/whatever is (hopefully) going to end up.
The big instances are like browsing /r/all. The focused instances are going to be where it’s at.

“Oh, rust? Yeh, you want the rust instance, or maybe the programming instance. Not here in the gardening instance”

It sounds like you are describing new user experience.
And I understand, coming from Reddit, how this can be a shock.
However, that’s how Lemmy works.
Similar to how twitter users got a shock moving (or trying to move) to mastadon.

The very nature of the fediverse works better with more instances, where a single instance has fewer users and the communities are more focussed.

Beehaw hasn’t “blacklisted everyone from…”. They’ve defederated. Whilst it may seem similar, it’s more nuanced. And that’s what a lot of people don’t understand.
Block-listing all users from lemmy.world from interacting with beehaw would be an amazing ability. That would put beehaw in a read-only state for users on lemmy.world, whilst still allowing beehaw users access to lemmy.world.
Unfortunately, the current admin/mod tools do not allow for that. And manually dealing with the huge influx of toxic users (posting death threats, illegal porn or trolling) was taking too much time.

Besides, the lemmy.world admin is working on custom tooling to deal with this issue. Because it is their users causing this issue, and it is their problem. And there is no higher authority - there are no Reddit admins to say “stop brigading”.
Shitjustworks, last I heard, weren’t responding to communication.
I have no doubts that beehaw will refederate as soon as Lemmy.world sorts their mod issues, or the Lemmy framework allows for more nuanced mod tools.

You have to remember that Lemmy is young.
It’s been around for a few years, but the shear scale of what is happening now is less than 2 weeks old

Hell let loose has been my game of choice for years.
There was always some jank, the meta always slightly missed. But it felt like an authentic game, like BF1942 but better graphics and gameplay.
The past year, it’s been slipping.
And the last 2 updates have made me question it’s future.

U13.5 broke reloads for bolt action rifles, where a full clip reload animation would run twice (there was similar for MG). I think it incorrectly implement some progressive reload system. They didn’t fix it until the U14 update, which was 4-6 weeks of this.

U14, they increased the movement speed by a stated 15%. Which is a huge change, considering the previous speed (although slow) was balanced around tanks/vehicles and commander abilities.
U14 also released a new faction, the British. With an assortment of non-standard loadouts… Like WW1 weapons instead of the expected lee-enfields, and what authentic loadouts there are are poorly implemented (for example, one of the assault loadouts - meant to be light and fast - has a bren gun)

Along the way, hit-registration has decreased, driving vehicles has ridiculous rubber-banding (makes me feel sick driving them), and persistent long term bugs are still prevalent.

I think I’m going to see how U15 goes.
If they have addressed these issues (rebalance things around the new movement speed, fix vehicle rubber banding, fix loadouts, fix British weapons, and ideally fix or address some of the long term bugs), then I’ll get back into it.
But at the moment, HLL has lost a lot of it’s fun for me.

I think a lot of them are either going to be support subs (like stopdrinking), or they will be subs asking their users what they should do.
The modcoord subreddit is full of support for continued protest

The modcoord sub that organised the initial blackout are encouraging subs to remain dark in response to this. It seems like a lot of subs are going to remain dark.

If a sub doesn’t want to go dark (stopdrinking was given as a community support example), then a touch-grass-tuesday is recommended to close the sub every Tuesday as an ongoing reminder.

Seems like Reddit has taken the protest as “a bit of noise, but business as usual soon”. So, time to kick it up a notch

Wow, this is an awesome exchange. Makes me want to go down the rabbit hole of reading the GitHub issues.

Anyway… I’m looking for a GitHub issue in more of a sky blue. Can you recommend something?

It’s amazing how small actual software can be.
It’s not a wrapped up web app (Lemmy has PWA functionality, so there is no need for that tbh).
There’s no click tracking. There’s no ad framework.
It’s just an app that interacts with an API.

I think there is a tipping point somewhere.

I think the connection calc is n * (n - 1) / 2 (at least, that’s what it is for mesh networks) so 1000 servers would be handling ~500k connections each.
That would be for 1000 users.
Those connections might be more lightweight, but there are significantly more of them (might even run into OS issues with that many open connections)

If each server was handling 50 users, the mesh connections would then be 1.2k.
50 users should be a blip wrt server load, and 1.2k mesh connections is more manageable.

On android, any number gets turned into a phone number and links to my phone app.
IDK if there is an autosuggest on text to tell android that there shouldn’t be phone numbers. Or if it’s an android setting u can turn off …

I’m fairly certain when you log in on jerboa, the instance input field is a text field with some promoted options.
So if you have your own instance at mysupersocial.example you can type that into the instance field manually.
Creating an account would likely require you to use the web version of mysupersocial.example (I have no idea if jerboa even allows for signups)

That would be awesome.
But video traffic and storage is so much higher than text and images (like Lemmy or mastadon).
The cost of running it would be pretty huge