This looks like the major driver of the project, IMO. The Sublinks roadmap is full of feature ideas geared toward better moderation, both at the community and instance level.
This is even better than I imagined!
Now do Scorpion, but he’s an actual scorpion!
“Riff raff. Street rat.”
I don’t buy that.
If only they’d look closer.
Would they see a poor boy? No sir-ee.
They’d find out I’m black and se-e-xy.
It’s ultimately under the umbrella of ideologies that support and prop up capitalism.
I think that’s a good summary.
“Classical liberalism” is basically what modern libertarians want: a laissez-faire capitalist economy, a secular representative government with very limited powers, prioritizing individual freedom over collective well-being, etc.
In my part of the world “liberalism” is now commonly used to refer to a different set of priorities: creating economic safety nets, regulating business, promoting universal healthcare, unions, gender equality, racial equality, etc. Though capitalism and a secular representative government are still part of the mix.
If they looked like Keenan and Damon Wayans this would have serious In Living Color vibes.
Prior to June 2023, Lemmy was holding steady around 1,000 monthly active accounts. So it’s still up more than 30x from that baseline.
Since this graph shows active accounts and not active users, I’ll bet a significant contributor to the drop is people not using all the alt accounts they initially created.
And the mods usually leave a comment so you know why your post/comment was removed or your account banned. It’s a nice system.
You should consider cross-posting this to !memetemplates@feddit.de. They might have some fun with it.
Someone linked it in a comment a few months ago, and I happened to bookmark it.
Here are a few other sites that might be interesting:
When viewing an instance’s main page in a web browser, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on “Instances”. That will show all instances federated with, or blocked by, the given instance.
I’m not sure I can answer your other questions, though you might be interested in https://fba.ryona.agency. It will let you enter an instance and see who is blocking it. For example, here are the instances blocking my home instance, sh.itjust.works: https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=sh.itjust.works
Thanks bot, but I did that intentionally.
Here’s an example. Say you want to visit the Engineering community on sh.itjust.works. The community lives at this URL:
https://sh.itjust.works/c/engineering
However, you are using an account at lemm.ee. In order to post or comment you need to access the community via lemm.ee, which means using this URL:
https://lemm.ee/c/engineering@sh.itjust.works
Going to the first URL is accessing the community directly.
Going to the second URL is accessing the community through your local instance. lemm.ee fetches the contents of the community and saves a local copy for you (and for all the other lemm.ee users). Any posts or comments you make get synced back to the community.
Edit: If you are using Lemmy through a smartphone app then don’t worry about this distinction. The app is taking care of this for you and always accessing everything through your local instance.
lemmy.world reports monthly expenses around €1,200 per month, but they’re also running multiple other services for that expense. Those costs are all covered by donations.
Smaller Lemmy instances are much less expensive. I’ve seen admins comment that they pay anywhere from $40 to $300 per month.
Have you tried getting into the instance’s Matrix chat? The admins are often there.
It’s working for me now. Earlier today the main page’s static content (site header and sidebar) would load, but no posts.
Hundreds of small instances have disappeared in the last few months. If The Federation was still working I could scrape the current list of instances and identify ones that have appeared/disappeared since I last scraped it in July.
https://lemmings.world seems to be alive but doesn’t fully load for me before the connection times out.
Here are a few down instances that I found manually:
I do feel like engagement and participation have dropped off from the Rexit peak. However, as the pace has slowed the quality of the posts and comments have stayed strong or even gotten better.
I’m looking forward to being able to block whole instances to get a lot of the bot-generated chaff out of my All feed. Stuff like sports scores and Hacker News reposts.
I’m not sure about all of them, but at least some of these instances did not have captcha or email verification enabled when they were first set up. They were easy targets for scripted account creation
For anyone unaware of the the spam issue mentioned in the link, it has been ongoing for a week. Some person or group is generating accounts on open Mastodon instances and spamming crap all over. My instance’s admin bot caught
twothree new spam accounts while I was typing this post. I know admins at other instances have put similar protections in place.If you haven’t seen the spam, thank your mods and admins!