‘Successful’ in the very narrow sense that it would be legal to do so. But not successful in actually changing anyone’s politics or the material conditions that give rise to the AfD.

If you try https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/ I’ll be very interested to hear how it goes.

I’ve been thinking about auto-unfollow, too. For example if an account hasn’t logged in for 6 months they unfollow everyone and leave all communities (but preserve the records of their subscriptions so they can be automatically re-follow/joined if they log in again).

Then that one guy who subscribed to all those anime communities a year ago won’t cause your instance to receive anime forever.

That’s a secret. But the selfhost community has lots of advice, e.g. https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world/p/2146191/safely-exposing-services-to-the-internet

Yeah it’s not great. I could have a PSU blow out any time and it’ll take me days to sort it out, probably. I have a spare server (these things are < $100 so why not) but getting it ready for prime time wouldn’t be quick either.

Anyway the resiliency of the fediverse is in the network - people can just use another instance for their fix of shitposts until their main comes back.

A long-time mastodon contributor is shutting down their instance - https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599

Small instances close down all the time but in this case it’s not just anyone’s instance.

This new environment will provide developers with an incentive to find ways to rein in their platform’s storage and CPU usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis

The next shoe to drop will be when S3 object storage prices double or triple. That’ll really thin the herd.

I left Hetzner after the price increase a couple of months ago, expecting that hike not to be the last.

Now I run my own hardware. It feels good to ‘own the means of federation’ and not rent it!

Another way to look at it would be “if you’ve got a toy project to practice coding without AI on, do it now” before that is the only option.

Try https://www.palemoon.org/, it’s a fork of Firefox from a few years ago before it got big.

After postmodernism there has to be an attempt to take the best from postmodernism, modernism, traditionalism and use them in a situation-appropriate way, fluidly and naturally. Because none of those previous stages had the full picture and each has something to offer.

Ken Wilber called this stage “Integral”

Not in the same way, no.

Most of the fediverse is open to all by default and the control admins have is to create a block list of instances they’d rather not federate with. With Peertube it doesn’t federate with anyone until admins on both sides add each other to an allowlist.

One thing that took me a looong time to realize is that Peertube federates weirdly - it’s all under control of the instance admin, not it’s users. Admins decide which instances federate with each other and then all the videos are copied between instances that have agreed to federate with each other.

But there’s no way to see this in the UI, as an ordinary user!

So it’s all super fragmented. Discoverability is atrocious, even by fediverse standards.

If you look at https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInstanceFollowers then that’ll help you find a well-connected instance. Then post onto that one.

No mention of the war or sanctions. Seems like a deliberate oversight.

The article also says

North Korea’s economy expanded 3.7% in 2024, its fastest rate in eight years

and

Let’s see how things go once the Ukraine war ends and they can’t profiteer off throwing their people into a meat grinder any more.

Guess how many sharks Australians kill each year.

So good to finally have a label for what went wrong with Drupal!

Stranded major

If I were blind I’d prefer it if the app just hid all image posts from me. The alt text, when it exists, is going to be trash most of the time anyway.

This is getting complicated.