Ah right! OK first off, you can block all of Lemmy.world with one action now.
Secondly, Lemmy now supports image proxying (with a new feature in Pictrs 0.5, which I believe was also introduced in Lemmy 0.19). I’m not sure which instances have it enabled but in theory you can check the source of images for remote users who have posted images.
Lemmy is already a strain on hard drive storage so I don’t think many people have enabled it (proxying will store the images on the Lemmy server for a set period of time).
Thanks for the explanation by the way, it makes sense.
Both Lemmy and Mbin lack the ability to filter out or block Cloudflare nodes. They both only give a way to block specific forums.
Lemmy lets you block whole instances, it was introduced in 0.19.0 (which was released just before Christmas, but many instances didn’t update until 0.19.3 was released around the start of the year due to federation issues with 0.19.0).
I don’t get why you want users to be able to apply cloudflare filters, though. If your instance doesn’t use cloudflare, then you won’t access through cloudflare. I’d actually be really interested in understanding why this is something you’re looking for, rather than just the ability to block an instance such as Lemmy.world.
GUIDs are globally unique because of maths and clocks not because of checking. When you generate a GUID you can be confident no GUID the same has ever been generated using that algorithm, ever, anywhere, and you don’t have to check.
However, someone pointed out you could run a malicious instance that copies GUIDs from other instances and federates them out to deliberately cause issues, so this idea is out.
There are heaps! Personally I feel Mastodon is the only one that could be considered in any way mature, but it’s just not something I can get into.
Lemmy has been great with all these new users (not so great prior), but it’s still pretty janky if we’re being honest.
I quite like Bookwyrm as well (a sort of fediverse Goodreads), and use it for tracking what I’m reading. But the federation of reviews doesn’t work quite how I (or they) would prefer. Plenty of content on the flagship instance bookwyrm.social, though I’m not sure how well it works trying to connect from other services. I just have a bookwyrm-specific account for that, though in theory you could use your lemmy account to connect I guess.
There’s also a facebook-like one called Friendica, but honesty until you can upload videos seamlessly I just can’t see it being used by the general public. You basically have to upload videos to youtube (or peertube) and link them. Because of a lack of users, most fediverse sites seem to assume posts will be public. I just can’t see friendica being adopted mainstream until I can upload videos of my kids for family to see without having to put them another site for the world to see.
Do you mean other Lemmy instances, or other projects like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc?
This site lists a lot of the different projects, and you can click on them to see the different nodes available for that project: https://the-federation.info/
As I understand it, it’s more about the sudden traffic than the level. When servers used to a few hundred users visiting a few times a day suddenly gotthousands of views from thousands of impressions, the servers weren’t set up for it.
Beehaw has talked about this, and have upgraded levels pretty much every day, from their initial $12 a month server up to their $48 a month one they use currently. You can still get much more powerful servers (some of the bigger mastodon ones pay hundreds a month), but paying for more than you need wastes money.
With a bit of planning, you could probably prepare a server for the traffic so long as you had the donations in advance.
I believe blocking an instance hides posts from your feeds but nothing else, but it’s worth testing.
I have lemmit.online (reddit copy) blocked, but I can still search for a specific post and view it. I have also seen others complaining that when they bad an instance they still see comments from users on that instance, so at least at the moment it seems it just hides the posts from your feeds.