You can prevent this by adding a credit card to your account. It “upgrades” your status, and then as long as you stay in the free tier allocations you won’t be charged.

I currently use a custom filter/rewrite in AdGuard Home (similar to pihole).

An alternative to running a central dns server is to use mDNS. You can install a daemon on each server that you want to access via hostname, and then clients know that ServerName.local domains should be resolved using mdns. They send out a dns query to a local multicast IP, the daemon on the servers receives the query and the appropriate one responds. By design it’s local only.

I read somewhere that Lemmy.ml has basically maxed out its VPS with its provider, so they’re stuck for the time being, whereas Lemmy.world actually just upgraded its server hardware. Hoping they’ll migrate to a beefier server soon.

The majority of Reddit’s 57m users do not use 3rd party apps. In fact I’d argue most don’t (or didn’t) even know you could use a 3rd party app or understand why you’d want to. To them Reddit is just the app. So yeah, of course they’re not participating in the protest.

I don’t expect Reddit to go away or to be adversely impacted by this movement. But I’m not going to worry about what goes on there, similar to how I don’t have a FB account and I don’t worry about what the 1B other users are doing. I left Reddit for myself, if other people continue to use it then so be it.

How does that work with stop lights? I’d say most stop lights are longer than 1 minute, so does everybody turn their car off while waiting? Does that cause a noticeable delay when the light changes?

I was with you until the end there. Really uncalled for to call someone disgusting and wish harm upon them because they have a different opinion than yours.

If you read the article, it’s not about rich people seeing homeless folks, it’s about vandalism and open drug use on the sidewalks. You don’t have to be rich or white to feel uneasy while stepping over bodies sprawled out on the sidewalk or walking by human waste and needles in the bushes the next morning.

Perhaps there’s a middle ground like keeping the Wi-Fi on but requiring login with a (free) library card.

This happened earlier today to me, too. My comment ended up in the wrong thread and ended up completely out of context. There are definitely some issues to work out.

If it works anything like Mastodon, server instances may ban entire other instances from posting and interacting with their community. So you can’t just create a terrorism instance and expect to be able to spam every other instance. For accounts on each instance, the admins will have to ban them just as any other account.

I hope lemmy.ml can upgrade at some point. A lot of the slowness I’m running into is trying to browse/discovery communities that happen to live on that instance.