The 509 section on Applicability seems to restrict this to services specifically targeting or deliberately creating environments suitable for, or providing attractions that can only be reasonably targeted to minors.
So if you don’t create kidzone.world or a blues clues community you’re probably alright, if you can show you don’t target or encourage minor participation.
yeah there was some inbound federation struggles with lemmy.ca the past few days, those might still be persisting. its where I’m homed, it works great from the inside! :)
Wow. Stickied THAT to [email protected] thanks!
[email protected] to find stuff (also see the resources stickied)
!thislemmyexists[email protected] for when you found stuff and want to let others know about it.
Also: https://browse.feddit.de/ <- community search engine. There’s like a bajillion PC gaming communities already.
Cool!
Cans has source? I’ve been hacking on a per-instance community scraper (that pulls a list of communities from the community directory page) for !lemmy411[email protected], in an attempt to have a regularly published community list, but I’m a bit bogged.
Unknown - Lemmy is a bit less “mature” than some of the other Fediverse platforms like Mastodon where you can at least export your data. All we have is “delete my account” for example.
If the instance goes away, that’s a good question. Certainly federated instances stop receiving anything from it. Will instances that have users who have subscribed to its communities still see cached posts etc? Probably. Unless there’s a “Im going away, purge my stuff from you” msg in the AP that I dunno of (haven’t finished reading it), a subscribing instance might just think “well, its unavailable at the moment Ill try later.”
Having said this, when you follow a community from mastodon, you get posts and replies all in a big jumble (readability of said jumble is up to your Masto client’s implementation), and posts/comments appear as boosts from the @community user.
The other way around. You can subscribe to/follow Lemmy/Kbin communities from mastadon accounts. e.g. from mastodon you can follow @[email protected] like a regular user.
The killer app will be the ability to follow hashtags like communities from Lemmy/Kbin. Its early days.
Yeah, I’m only seeing plumbing and homeimprovement subs. :)
And a lot of people posting “hey, what happened to <sub>?”. Like… have you been living on the sun the past two weeks?
You’re missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
Dunno. Hey @smorks@[email protected] , what is lemmy.ca’s host provider/plan (unless its top secret Canadian Moose Power Secrets)?
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As everyone else has already said that’s a very good question, one that doesn’t necessarily have an answer, but Im not too concerned.
I’d point out (rather excitedly) that this really isn’t unlike how the Internet used to be up until the late 00s or very early 2010s and the rise of insta, FB, birdsite, digg and reddit. EVERYone had to shoulder hosting costs (unless you were on Geocities,Myspace then it was ads)
Yes, we’ve had bulletin boards and discussion forums since perl and CGI were a thing; each was self hosted at the hoster’s expense. Newsgroup and IRC servers too - THOSE all acted like “federated” instances - common newsgroups and chat channels would be synchronized and replicated from server to server EXACTLY how federated Lemmy/Kbin/etc. instances do it now.
And the infrastructure costs were a struggle then and they will be now. Back then to have a capable CGI forum host, or to colocate your server in someone’s data center it cost a lot - like decent hosting/co-loc plans started at $50/month and went up from there. Most hosting plans had steep bandwidth caps, think like 5GB included and +$5 per GB - if you hosted a popular site 40-50GB of traffic wasn’t abnormal. If you ran a newsgroup server you frequently had to futz with how long newsgroup msgs were retained to save disk space; like 48 hrs or less (then the data would be purged).
What you can get for $50/month THESE days is quite a lot more capable, and you can run a low retention instance for a lot less. Bandwidth and disk space are ludicrously cheap (at least compared to 10-15+ yrs ago). If your instance is low user, low community, and reasonable data retention/cloning, you could run Lemmy or a Mastodon or Calkey server on an old computer you have kicking around and host it from your home internet connection with a dynamic DNS mapping.
Obviously the big instances with gobs of users will struggle with how they pay for the server infrastructure - some will use crowdfunding, patrons, donations etc. Others will run ads, or subscriptions.
My home instance lemmy.ca is at 1400 users (as of right now) and is on a $25-30/month hosting plan and so far the site is doing just fine (or seems to be). I’d guess that a massive instance like lemmy.ml might be north of $1-200. But, if you think about it, all you need are 20 ppl to donate $10/month. I donate yearly to Wikipedia. As they discuss in this thread here https://lemmy.ca/post/599590 Mastodon gets $28k Euros a month in donations and pays for two? full time developers, so its not like there aren’t people donating to open source projects… and so far Fediverse servers are doing fine.
Also be sure to x-post these to [email protected].
Also search for stuff at [email protected]
/r/AskHistorians - ruthlessly and efficiently moderated, but every single post a fascinating read. I should msg Zukhov to see if he wants to move ship to /c/AskHistorians.
… and be sure to post it to [email protected] !
Whups. try now.
For what its worth I just spend this morning scraping a list of communities from the dozen largest Lemmy instances. ANd last night for no good reason other than it existed in Reddit, I created [email protected]
Today’s Lemmyverse Community Listing: https://lemmy.ca/post/612259
Oh… for fucks sake. You can’t tell the people at the bottom to work better-er when they’ve been trying to work better-er for a decade and their efforts get shit on .
Interview every team lead and department head that has ever raised a quality/safety/non-conformance. Then interview/audit every executive those issues were reported TO. And if they can’t provide a very very very good reason (i.e. not “$money$”) for why those issues weren’t actioned then they get fired. Every fucking one. Then promote a bunch of engineers.
Boeing used to be a great company when the engineers ran it. Now its shit because the MBAs in expensive suits run it.