I also have hints here https://youtu.be/T5rBc_T8x2g

I’m obsessed with The 7th Guest lol

!stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com

In theory I guess. But you’d need a ton of funding just to get the server power for that, and there’s no guarantee that users will switch over to your service. And if Bluesky starts turning bad then they could start blocking your instance. Also the users are much more valuable than the data. There’s lots of ways this could fail to pan out. The Fediverse is much more flexible to new instances joining.

maybe it would be simple to fork this source code and form your own community

The network effect makes this extremely difficult, even with the source code, it’s basically starting from scratch again.

definitely Deus Ex

but also The 7th Guest lol

Not the first person, but certainly the first and only chick

Space Quest Historian, for adventure games https://spectra.video/c/spacequesthistorian/videos

Block lemmy.ml if you don’t like it

(Actually, is lemmy.world on too old of a version to have instance blocking? They’re so far behind on updates)

on fediverse observer, you need to switch to daily stats not monthly stats, right now it says 53,225 MAU for March 13th as the latest datapoint

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

fedidb is probably doing something similar, just showing the average for the whole month, instead of the current day

I’m definitely happy I didn’t open Lemmy until I got home from work today

This is one reason why I never use expanded card views and only used the condensed list views where I have to click a thumbnail to expand lol

Yeah we don’t need more posts, we need more comments, and maybe more voters too

usually when I tell someone what an instance is, I throw a few synonyms in there

I feel like just saying “instance/proxy” can help, providers sounds good too, also gateways, servers, relays…

I made an old discussion about this actually

https://programming.dev/post/3658116

https://programming.dev/post/3658268

well I was speaking in theory, just the idea, of course this stuff can be abused

but imagine if they actually only used it for illegal content, like the really bad stuff

interesting idea actually, strengthening the crowd sourced filtering

but downvotes don’t delete posts, so you still need a real moderator

Also hashtags don’t help federation at all, groups/communities will “boost” the post so it federates to all the followers

if an instance has no users and only communities, then it’s less likely to be defederated by anyone, and easier to manage

I do the same thing (also because I don’t want to pay for tons of storage space lol) https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities

at that point why even say “the Reddit alternative called Lemmy”

you could say “the Reddit alternative called Voyager”

Proxying is a separate option from caching. I think it was added in 0.19.5

It’s way easier to notice and defed when you can see these fake usernames

You can set a Lemmy server to proxy image requests