I have a "when I stop being bad at web development" project idea for this, hopefully someone who has a development background can pick it up.
The idea is an open-source onboarding portal that takes all Lemmy instances from awesome-lemmy-instances and Kbin instances from FediDB and lets their admins tag their instances with what the instance is focused on, maybe through a dedicated community or something. This list of instances and tags is public so instances can't cheat the system with fake tags or get secretly blacklisted just because the project maintainer disagrees with them.
Users get directed to the portal and fill out a quiz with questions like "what are your hobbies", "do you prefer strict or lax moderation", and get matched to a list of the closest servers and recommended communities. There will also be a simple load balancing algorithm to make large instances less likely to be recommended. Of course, because it's open source, the algorithm and list of instances can be changed if someone wants to host their own portal.
Basically, something like Spread Mastodon that covers the entire known network and not just a few of the largest instances that are approved by mastodon.social.
This is not a good thing. Part of the problem is third-party apps like Sync and other Fediverse advocates that direct Reddit users to sign up on only one instance, lemmy.world. This is understandable to keep things simple for the Redditors but it hurts lemmy.world (cost and performance-wise) and the Fediverse as a whole (centralization) to have a lot of accounts on one instance. I hope lemmy.world can make an announcement or guide to encourage users to spread out to more instances.
https://leddit.danmark.party, because it's running a bot named Leddit that pulls content from Reddit. And, uh, Denmark Party, because I love Denmark and I thought it would be really funny to own a domain named this. I also wanted to split my serious and silly projects into different domains, so I bought this extra domain and use it for all of my silly projects now.
(Not posting directly from that instance so I can leave the bot in peace, but federation definitely works because posts from it are getting through to other instances)
Instances can be scaled across several machines. Here they're using multiple containers as their resource usage isn't high enough to require multiple machines yet, but it proves that it can be done.
Adding on to what everyone else has said, the "Users per month" counter counts only the users on your home instance (the instance you created your account on) who have posted or commented in the subreddit this month. The total number of active users across all instances can be seen when you view the community from its home instance.
Yes, it started from this terminology change at Twitter in 2020. They're the reason that version control systems call the primary branch 'main' instead of 'master' by default, because 'master' comes from the master/slave terminology that is used in electronics hardware design.
There's a comment here saying that master/slave in hardware design is being replaced by primary/secondary because of the software trend, which I think is stupid. Master/slave works much better in that context because the master device controls the slave device. Primary/secondary implies that the slave device is a fallback of the master device.
You get tracked if you give up and accept the privacy invasions because "the internet is just like that". Get a phone with an unlocked bootloader, remove the stock Android and install GrapheneOS/LineageOS/CalyxOS.
I don't use Reddit for the interaction, average Redditors are annoying to interact with. Reddit's value to me is the amount of information it contains. It's supposed to be like copy pasting a book that has DRM, so you can make use of the content without worrying that the book's copyright holder will use it to screw you over eventually.
Don't worry about it spamming instances. This bot posts so much that it will be automatically blocked from any instance that uses the default Lemmy rate limits, so all bot deployments will have to run on an instance that is specifically for them.
Source code for the bot will be released on July 1st if Reddit doesn't introduce a breaking change on that day and if I don't receive a good argument as to why this bot will destroy the Fediverse.
It will continue to work if you're the only user on your Teddit instance. Teddit (and Libreddit, and any of the Reddit alternative frontends) use the Reddit API un-authenticated and after July 1st, they will be rate-limited to 10 requests per minute. The limit is enough for the activity of one logged-out user but it will break the proxy instances that allow many users to combine their traffic under one IP.
Inte manuellt, men annars ja, det behövs ett godkännande från databasen på andra sidan att förfrågan från feddit.nu har kommit fram innan feddit.nu får hämta innehåll från den. När databasen har för många åtgärder (uppröster, kommentarer, förfrågningar med mera) att utföra kan din förfrågan hamna i en kö och stå där i timmar. Ibland kan databasen även starta om och tömma sin kö vilket gör att din förfrågan förloras och knappen fryser på "subscribe pending", varefter du måste avbryta och skicka den igen.
Om det var något på lemmy.ml du försökte prenumerera på är det vanligt med långa köer och frusna åtgärder, deras hårdvara är värst bland de stora instanserna och har inte kraften att hantera den mängd användare de har.
I have my emails set up with Purelymail, they're great if you don't need the extra office suite tools and have a lot of custom domain addresses, but I'm also skeptical about the "single point of failure" setup as everything is run by one person and the entire service can go down with him. As far as I'm aware, there isn't any other mail service that doesn't charge extra for additional domains.
It's great that they're going back to traditional, self-hosted forums instead of corporate social media for support and discussions, but damn, I don't miss having to manage hundreds of accounts with unique logins for each forum. I understand that they want more control over forum moderation and the Fediverse's "anyone can post there" system makes it troublesome. It would be great if there was more widespread adoption of decentralized, "one login to access everything" systems.
Din kommentar fick mig att kolla upp deras priser (jag har studentrabatten och är inte så noga med hur mycket det kostar normalt). De nergraderade 179kr-abonnemanget från obegränsat till 100 timmar i månaden och nu kostar det obegransäde 229kr. Är det bara jag som inte förstår hur ljudböcker kan kosta mer än Netflix?
This instance is hosted in Germany, one of the countries with the strictest anti-piracy laws? Seems like a very risky decision (I'm aware that a lot of the good and affordable hosting providers are German).
Man blir kallad för foliehatt och konspirationsteorist men jag tycker att när en nyhetsartikel upplyser att något ska bojkottas bör man se kritiskt över vad bl.a tidningens utgivare, investerare och konkurrensen till det som bojkottas har att tjäna på en lyckad bojkott. Det är så mycket som aldrig når upp till ytan att jag har svårt att känna något för den hysteri som väcks av mainstream media.
BankID är ett nationellt skämt, vem tyckte det var en bra idé att låta bankerna ha kontroll över ID-legitimation?! Häromdagen klagade Feddits danskar på hur deras statliga e-ID inte funkade på Firefox i inkognitoläge och jag fick inte ens känna skadeglädjen när vårt system är så mycket värre!
Hade svenskarna etablerat sig på Feddit lika tidigt som våra fina bröder i syd skulle min profil också vara täckt i blågul, men ty modsen som trodde att /u/spez skulle ändra sig efter protesten! Fredagsgrodan är ett symbol av det förtryck vi swämmisar fick lida under Reddits diktatur. Framåt mot klippan friheten mina swämmelbröder!
Om man vill identifiera drivkraften tydligare är det lånesystemet (vilket såklart leder till större vinst för företag). Så länge folk får använda pengar de inte har för att bestämma priserna kan de öka raskt och oändligt.
I have a "when I stop being bad at web development" project idea for this, hopefully someone who has a development background can pick it up.
The idea is an open-source onboarding portal that takes all Lemmy instances from awesome-lemmy-instances and Kbin instances from FediDB and lets their admins tag their instances with what the instance is focused on, maybe through a dedicated community or something. This list of instances and tags is public so instances can't cheat the system with fake tags or get secretly blacklisted just because the project maintainer disagrees with them.
Users get directed to the portal and fill out a quiz with questions like "what are your hobbies", "do you prefer strict or lax moderation", and get matched to a list of the closest servers and recommended communities. There will also be a simple load balancing algorithm to make large instances less likely to be recommended. Of course, because it's open source, the algorithm and list of instances can be changed if someone wants to host their own portal.
Basically, something like Spread Mastodon that covers the entire known network and not just a few of the largest instances that are approved by mastodon.social.