I just checked and we have that turned on, too.

We don’t get a lot of applications. A couple per week, maybe.

It’s called Lemmy-Safety of Fedi-Safety depending on where you look.

One thing to note, I wasn’t able to get it running on a VPS because it requires some sort of GPU.

Yeah, it’s just something like “Tell us why you want to join this instance”. If the answer is “to promote my content” or “qq”, for example, they don’t get approved.

It’s done by the Lemmy software.

We require applications, and most applications we get are extremely low effort and we don’t approve them. If you have open registrations you’ll be doing a lot of moderation for spam.

Run the software that scans images for CSAM. It’s not perfect but it’s something. If your instance freely hosts whatever without any oversight, word will spread and all of a sudden you’re hosting all sorts of bad stuff. It’s not technically illegal if you don’t know about it, but I personally don’t want anything to do with that.

I’m not a lawyer, but since Lemmy instances aren’t “professional or commercial activity”, I doubt a GPDR request would be applicable.

Some people who run instances might have the ability to do some sort of database export for a specific user, but the vast majority of us are just barely technical enough to keep Lemmy running and updated.

The last time I touched our database I accidentally wiped out all data older than 1 month and had to restore a backup.

I think we do have the option to remove a user by purging them through the UI, but an export isn’t an option at this point.

Looking forward to trying the latest update.

“She described working for DeSantis as the “biggest mistake” of her entire career.[14]”

…I wonder how long until she updates that statement.

There’s a difference in how active users are counted now, too, so that skews the numbers. An active user used to be a user who posted or commented. Now voting makes a user active.

That isn’t an indicator of current inflation. Past inflation, maybe.

People confuse “everything is expensive” with “inflation is currently high”. It’s an understandable misunderstanding, and part of the reason why Kamala lost.

The news isn’t known for getting details correct. I guess it could have been a tiki torch, or an Olympic torch, though.

I’ve known 95 year olds who are very active in whatever they hold dear to their hearts.

Can I shop at HD again, or are the people in charge still assholes?

It depends. Blow torches are odorless unless the canister is leaking. Flare guns don’t smell like anything unless they’ve been recently discharged, and even then it’s probably not a strong odor.

Is there any supporting documentation for the name change? Sort of like how people can show a marriage certificate after they get married if their last name changed?

I just got banned from [email protected] for 2 months because I said I wasn’t comfortable installing an Android app with a Russian developer. The audacity!

You and your gang at .ml don’t have a problem with genocide. Why are you pretending to? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukrainians_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War

Because they won’t win and it would be a wasted vote. I live my life aware of reality.

DST is what most people prefer. It’s the switch back to standard time that’s dumb.

I will not vote for those people.

Who should I vote for?