Because nobody has written the code to make it “not function like that”.

No

I don’t think so. Two paid upgrades in eight years.

• Bartender 2 - September 2015
• Bartender 3 - September 2017 (Free upgrade)
• Bartender 4 - April 2021
• Bartender 5 - Sept 2023

It works. End of thoughts.

Chicken and egg. The tuitions have been able to reach the insane heights due to the ready availability of these loans.

It was a lot harder to get loans thirty years ago. Almost on par with the criteria for any other personal loan. A four year CompSci degree that could be had for under $25K, in total, opened the door to a $45K to $60K entry level position for a typical graduate.

Availability of loans broke wide open, under the guise of providing opportunity, and now the same degree costs 5-10x with yet the typical entry level salary remains more or less the same, give or take a few inflation points.

Lemmy, itself, does NOT collect or store IP addresses. You won’t find this information in the Lemmy database/application.

However, your IP address will be captured in the webserver logs themselves, which is typical for any connections to any webserver.

No worries. The sorting and filtering algorithms definitely need some love.

You’re following up to a post made almost 3 months ago so it’s not surprising you’ve seen similar since.

You’re missing the forest through the trees if your take is that anyone is directly comparing the severity of these two issues. The point is that any instance owner that doesn’t have the proper framework in place to mount a legal argument or defense is in a highly vulnerable position regardless of the content.

Being in the right doesn’t matter if you can’t afford the price tag associated with proving it. Just responding to a subpoena or a lawsuit has a non-zero cost associated with it.

Binary Sunset. Luke staring pensively out into the distance as he considers his place in the universe and where it may or may not go. I’d be staggered to find anyone who can’t relate to that.

BC titles remain available through the current store.

True dat. I’ve been running it about seven weeks and am pulling about 700 communities. Most have near zero traffic but the high volume ones do add up.

42G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/
12G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/postgres
30G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/pictrs

By design, yes, but there’s a number of things that can go wrong that can cause the remote instances to not receive (or comply with) the instruction to do so.

I use Lemmy Community Seeder. Every four hours it checks the top posts on instances you specifies and automatically subscribes you to communities that appear there but you aren’t already subscribed to. You can tweak it to ignore specific communities or instances.

Only because I can read the whole thing significantly faster than Reddit.

It’s actually a “mirror” moreso than a cache. There’s a complete, distinct, URL for each piece of mirrored content, that points a specific server and is indexable by search engines independent of the original. Instances ARE hosting the data directly.

Not sure which part of that law you’re going with but I appreciate the arrogance of quoting US law as a silver bullet on a global platform in a thread started on a server in Germany.

Those parentheses are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

I 100% agree with your assessment regarding relative level of risk. On the other hand, knowing LW is hosted in Finland by a German provider does multiply their risk solely by virtue of geography.

Very few instances have proper resources for general moderation never mind sorting out the “hard questions”.

The troll that started this shitshow knew exactly what they were doing. Once the admins were “alerted” they had to act in order maintain “safe harbor” provisions afforded to communications carriers and platforms. While I’m most familiar with the US DCMA, similar legislation and provisions exist in the EU and other locales. Problem is, remote community moderation is somewhat hit or miss right now due to shortcomings in the platform itself. That’s if you even have the resources to look through everything and make a “reasonable” determination on a post by post or comment by comment basis. While I don’t agree with the decision to block these communities I do see how the admins may have reached the conclusion that to do so was their only viable choice, at the moment.

Let’s take the inflammatory subject solely to make a point.

If someone posted CP to [email protected], that content is then immediately copied to every instance that has at least one subscriber to [email protected]. It now appears on NEW of the community and the front page of every single one of those instances. It’s not a link to the content, it’s the actual content, hosted on every single once of those instances.

You not convinced there’s the potential for liability for every single one of those instances and their admins?