Mmmmmmm, I'm triggering PW resets anyway.

🥳🥰 Thanks!

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🎉🎉🎉 Every little bit counts!

You can block instances yourself. Check your Settings then click the Block tab, then enter in the domain under Block Instance.

Defederating has wider ramifications and just because there are a few bad users or opinions people don't like doesn't mean that everyone should be blocking them.

We have a few of those users too who regularly get into fights or who might be classed as mean, so if that's the case then we would be blocked too.

Standards that one server has cannot be enforced by another server.

Also no dog-piling onto this thread which I'll be locking if it happens.

Federation between Onion and Standard Domains that way tor users would not be isolated

This is the hardest part as you would need to be both have an onion and have a standard domain, or be a tor-only Federation.

You can easily create a server and allow tor users to use it, which unless a Lemmy server actively blocks tor, you'd be welcome to join via it. But federation from a clearnet to onion cannot happen. It's the same reason behind why email hasn't taken off in onionland. The only way email happens is when the providers actively re-map a cleanet domain to an onion domain.

This is what Lemmy would need to do. But then you would have people who could signup continuously over tor and reek havok on the fediverse with no real stopping them. You would then have onion users creating content that would be federated out to other instances. & User generated content from tor users also is ... Not portrayed in the best light.
I'm sure someone will eventually create an onion Lemmy instance, but it has it's own problems to deal with.
This is especially true for lack of moderation tools, automated processes, and spammers who already are getting through the cracks.

I can confirm the sections around downvotes as Reddthat has the stance exact what you are talking about (re your child comments)

A downvote disabled instance creates it's own algorithm/feed/ranking based purely on all other metrics, because as far as the data is concerned, it sees every post having 0 downvotes. It does not take into account external instances.

I can answer the first point.
We've already tackled part of that problem with the Parallel Sending feature that can be enabled on instances with a tremendous amount of traffic. Currently the only instance that makes sense to enable that is LemmyWorld and the only reason is so servers in geographical far away can get more than 3-4 activities/second.

With that feature, servers that eventually house and generate the biggest amounts of traffic will be able to successfully communicate all of those activities to everyone else who needs them.

I predict a 10x increase is well in our grasp of easily accessible by all of our current systems. 1000x? That's a different story which I don't have the answers too.

Reddthat admin here, it's mainly upto the moderators discretion to what happens with offtopic posts. But as we (I?) prioritise discussion over just a post, even comments like these are welcome. If a personal were to constantly post off topic comments or posts then we'd probably just delete them all and be on our day. There is nothing stopping people from posting to every community, but with enough eyes they get reported to us, then acted upon.

Looks like the savings I've made on the server has been eaten up with our increased S3 storage. Not surprising considering we have just over 2TB stored now. We saved about $20/m! (I've gone and updated the list of items and their costs in our Funding post -> https://reddthat.com/post/25633)

HI from the other side? Was it really that quick?

Thanks! I gave the server some extra coffee this month. ☕

It seems that way, I'll have to do some extra math on our flows to double check but with the new server it should be completely in the black! Until our S3 costs go up of course.

Also I managed to get it so I get billed in AUD this time so we won't be at the behest of the exchange rate.

Once the dust has settled after the migration I'll write up a big announcement on the last year. We're just shy of 2TB of storage now (I'm so glad we went with S3 compatible storage, otherwise we'd have been in trouble!). & Hopefully LW will turn on their parallel sending. I think they are super hesitant because it hasn't really been tested at any serious level, so if there is a way to have it only for reddthat I think they would work with us. That'll shave an extra 4€ off our bill each month too.

😁👍 Happy to be a sacrifice for the greater good

I can't wait! We'll finally get to do a real world test for the parallel sending features!! And if all goes well I'll get to save 5 Euro a month!

Thanks LW

Some people donate a small amount occasionally, some people sign up for recurring and let it go for 2-3 months and then remove it, and some people donate a heap all at once. So it's more of an indication based on the last 12 months.

Currently we only have about $70-$80 in recurring donations. Which is $40-50 short. So moving down to a cheaper main server is needed.

The eu server is a tiny batching proxy which is for accepting all of Lemmy World's activities.

I've talked about in my a couple previous updates. Lemmy (used to) send all activities sequentially, and because LW was in EU and we are in AU the network latency was 200-300ms depending on routing and response time. This meant that if LW created more than 3 requests per second we wouldn't be able to process them fast enough and would eventually fall behind. Which is exactly what happened. At one point we were up to 7 days behind from LW.
The batcher/queue service accepts 100 activities and then forwards them to our server. And because it takes next to no time at all to process them we easily caught up with LW.

The main server is where everything runs.

Sounds like you turned off the specific language that the community users or, we haven't federated with that community yet! It sounds more likely that we haven't federated yet so let's check that.

If you go to Search (on reddthat web interface) and type in: [email protected] that triggers the search/federation.

It should then show up and you should be able to subscribe. It will then start pulling in all the posts (so you might only see a few immediately).

If it's a language problem then you can fix that in your account settings. (As if you don't have a language selected it will not show any posts with that language).

:s Fixed!

Lemmy is still saving thumbnails and (previously) sometimes the whole image! The majority of image issues have been cleared up in my opinion and it works very well. Nearly all of our hosts allow hotlinking as it's basically required for our use cases.

Lemmy also knows when the image is another Lemmy instance (through "magic", or just cross posting). So if you upload once and then use that same link on all other posts then that would still be the same.

The problem I think you have is your usecase also includes posting externally to Lemmy. & to some extent, you don't want those images tied to your Lemmy account. If my users post via my instance then they are welcome to also hotlink the images externally. This is only possible because Reddthat uses a CDN and caches the images as much as possible.

Even if we didn't use a cdn there are plenty of VPS' and proxy software that we could use which would transparently function in the same way. You could even setup your own VPS, some image hosting software like https://chibisafe.moe/ or https://github.com/nokonoko/Uguu or https://github.com/hauxir/imgpush

To sum up:

• post once to Lemmy instance and then use that image everywhere
• use a random image host that allows hotlinking to do the same
• get your own VPS, setup an image upload and use that (and maybe get a domain too!)

The 3rd option you can do completely anonymously via crypto.