Not annoying at all.

I‘m running a public instance on two threads and I think 2 gb of ram. A private instance shared with other services on 6 threads and 8 gb of ram. Make of that what you want. :)

I would probably rent a vps which you could extend if needed but start small. With 2 threads and 4 gb of ram at least.

Anecdotal evidence: I run two instances, a private and a public one. Neither uses a lot of resources.

But I get the database thing. Its spiking every couple minutes and a lot every hour. It’s not a big deal if you have 2 threads at least but I can see how it doesnt work for everyone in every scenario.

I‘m glad alternatives exist and I‘m much more positive on AP alternatives than protocol exiles.

These billionaires are just regular people with less empathy (there are no ethical billionaires). They have the same braindead ideas we all have if we dont know anything about a topic and are in a talkative mood or possibly drunk or high, or all of those combined I guess.

You‘re writing in lemmy.ml, the original lemmy instance.

Written on tankie reddit.

Yeah, well. Why was I not surprised when I read its made by a lemmy dev. You guys rock.

Kilogram.makeup for an instagram bridge is the most hilarious name ever! I burst out with laughter startling my wife.

I have recently donated my largest donation ever to the lemmy devs (a large sum for me atm). I‘m thankful for their work and have said so openly and individually to dessalines and others. Thank you too for making this post. I completely agree.

I read that. I‘m not entirely sure what that means though. They host an instance with many users for a long time? Even if thats the case they might be very bad at social skills and got set off by misinterpreting his intenstions (not trying to defend, trying to understand so I can form an opinion and search for a solution)

Sounds pretty great! Thanks for mentioning.

Thats actually pretty cool. It needs to be insanely well engineered so you dont get trolls to „moderate“ for points and throw out every person on the platform. Also, the hivemind needs to be kept in check so group think is not as brutal.

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Who is aurynn? Never found the name in the article.

Very interesting article! Very much fits with my own experience. The following things I decided to take as lessons learned from the fedi so far:

• stating novel concepts will get you ignored at best ans bullied at worst
• lemmy lacks (at least afaik) a way to share blocklists for destructive people (not instances)
• if you keep your posts on the constructive side, you will get a lot of positive replies but some will come at you no matter what

Especially when in a bad mood I need to get off lemmy if I cant emotionally distance myself from the bad actors.

Mastodon is a different kind of animal. They have centralized blocklists (like oliphant.social) to keep whole instances of trolls out. I havent had really bad situations since I implemented those but I have to report people nearly on a daily basis.

The reasons I have to assume are very varied and as such probably the solutions should be varied as well. Reasons I concludes from many discussions:

• lack of social skills on both sides
• no explicit behavioral code on instances or communities
• lack of active moderation and guidance
• the fediverse kind of includes those unable to keep an account unbanned on corpo media
• lack of (social) education, like biases and phallacies

All these are solvable imo. Not all by the same thing and none of them immediately. Obviously people will disagree with me and I‘m fine with that. My personal thoughts on solutions are as follows:

• Moderators get fixed shares of donations (x% over all moderators)
• Sidebars and rules get more fleshed out with links to social resources and education, explanations for those not immediately understanding it
• Explicit rules against ad hominem attacks and getting personal to win an argument

Imo, these will be beneficial for lemmy. Mastodon might benefit from other ideas. Feel free to share those and discuss with me.

Disclaimer: Ridicule and Ad hominem attacks will not be replied to but immediately blocked.

Same here. Meta is not welcome in my instance.

I agree. This cant happen, especially not without explanation/discussion.

But I didnt catch what the communities were either, did you? Be a shame if it was something like white_supremacist_tech_support or something.

Especially ml where you have your account isnt keen on views from the other end of the political spectrum afaik. Nothing wrong with that but just saying. World is very mainstream and maybe they just triggered something.

Not saying thats what happened, just trying to think of reasons and possible solutions.

Sounds like there are some very competent folks in the fediverse.

I cant say I disagree.

We need people like you. I wouldn’t have thought of the possibility (honestly). Do you also have ideas how that would come along?

Sounds pretty awesome.