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Gotcha. I’m actually in the process of moving away from Namecheap because of an experience I just had with them. I tried to register a domain about a month ago (the domain my Lemmy instance is on) and it stopped the registration process immediately after I hit the Pay/Checkout/whatever button and told me to contact their support team to register it.

The error message said it was because the domain name was too similar to something that already existed, and that the support team would have to decide whether I’d be allowed to register it or not. So I went to another registrar and registered it with no issue. I really didn’t like that, and it’s enough to make them lose me as a decade+ long customer. I already use Route53 for DNS for all my domains, so it’s not like I was using them for anything else other than a registrar, so untangling that shouldn’t be too much of a pain.

It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name

My man, you are getting absolutely bent over a barrel by your registrar. You could get that domain significantly cheaper at a place like Porkbun or Namecheap.

just raise awareness about tools like this one https://lemmyverse.net/

I also think that something like LCS or Lemmony should be recommended and/or included in the default Lemmy docker compose file.

That way, when new Lemmy servers get spun up, they will automatically get seeded with content and communities from other existing Lemmy servers.

I still haven’t found a replacement for it.

Oh man, this takes me back…

It’s a decade later, and I’m still bitter about Google Reader’s unceremonious execution.

“No, I can’t come out tonight, I’m optimizing my CONFIG.SYS file so I can have a mouse AND my Soundblaster work at the same time!”

The fact that a majority of even the older Gen Z (like me) have been reported to not understand file systems or general tech and internet knowledge is scary.

I think it’s to be expected. When the majority of your tech use is with a phone/tablet, concepts like filesystems are abstracted away from you.

The same goes for troubleshooting that tech, as the most helpful error message you generally get from those kinds of devices boils down to a graphic of a sad face and a completely useless “Something went wrong” type of error message.

Already has. A can of fucking beans had 5k+ upvotes.

FYI, you can patch RiF with Revanced to use your own OAuth token. I did it, and it works, but I’m not actually using it anymore/haven’t been to reddit for a while.

I just did it as more of a “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” thing than anything else.

i spent like a day trying to debug why lemmy wasn’t starting up at first, turns out i just had an instance name longer than 20 characters.

I was also bitten in the ass by this, it’s why my instance is on a one-character subdomain.

I’ve had my own instance running on a puny 1VCPU/1G RAM instance at Vultr since the beginning of June and the resource usage has been negligible. Drive space is the largest resource it’s consumed, it’s at about 12GB of drive space consumed in a month.