Well, I think a personalized message (maybe in the primary language of the instance) is more effective than some standard text thats everywhere.

I think most instance admins realize that there is also a need to support the devs, and a single place that advertises both and can get linked from the sidebar might also be more bring more donations to the devs.

Well, obviously if you host from your home ISP, people will be able to figure out your home’s approximate location via a reverse IP search.

But otherwise go for it. It’s not that hard to do and a nice learning experience.

Imho the best would be one that is customizable by the instance admins.

The militias in Rojava (northern Syria) are kinda working that way. There are no real ranks and they were quite effective fighting ISIL and Turkish proxy forces in recent years.

This guy also being a perpetrator of bullying because he didn’t like moderation decisions makes this post a bit ironic though 🤷

This is odd because I know a few mainland Chinese people that use XMPP without problems (and afaik without a VPN).

Sounds like your server got blocked for another reason?

Well, instead of leaking metadata to Signal, AWS, Cloudflare, Google/Apple and your ISP, like Signal does, RCS only leaks it to your ISP /s

You can easily redirect xmpp to port 443 which is not blocked by most firewalls. If you have problems with firewalls or public wifis your xmpp server is misconfigured.

The actual military grade (xmpp based) messengers implement security lables, meaning messages are tagged with the required security clearance and if you invite random people to a chat they can’t see the messages.

Something like that could be also interesting for a Lemmy frontend to make it easier to share images on instances that have strict upload limits.

It’s both an undenyable fact of our near-term future but also a great way to rally community efforts around and build resilient structures that can over time evolve into something more. I personally think its a win, but of course with an unfourtunate background.

Seems like a good start on the basic ideas. Maybe some additional thoughts on community prepardness for climate disasters would be useful?

Hmm, that is odd. I guess I need to double check my Nginx config for lemmy-ui then. You have your setup documented somewhere?

Edit: ah, you run Photon as the main UI and lemmy-ui somewhere else? I think specifically the split between frontend and backend on the root domain somehow makes Anubis fail to set the correct cookie.

That would require the authors of these AI scrapers to actually give a f*ck. The problem is that they don’t, and just scrape what ever they can find repeatatly almost like a ddos attack on the open web.

What are your thoughts on blocking AI scraper access? Any attempts to improve that on the side of Lemmy? Basic things like allowing to customize the robots.txt easily would already help.

I also recently tried this new AI block tool called Anubis with Lemmy, but for some reason it fails with Lemmy-ui. Might be interesting to investigate further.

Unified Push support would be great.

Places like Kickstarter and Patreon show that crowdfunding can be hugely successful. Sadly the incentives of these platforms don’t align well with their customers, so people have grown a bit jaded with Kickstarters recently and Patreon mostly devolved into a winner takes all attention economy that leaves lesser known creators with scraps only.

But the general idea is not bad. An ethical platform like Kickstarter that vets projects a bit and only allows coops or so would probably work well if they can convince people that those are relatively safe bets.

Sadly the payment processing side of things is a legal minefield, which makes it really hard and potentially expensive to set up an alternative.

Hmm, maybe they are running some developer release? I don’t think this has made it into an official release yet, and if so that must have happend very recently (I tried selfhosting Pixelfed about 6 months ago and it wasn’t available yet).

This is a planned feature for Pixelfed that is perpetually finally almost finished since about two years now 😅

Well, like I wrote below, it is basically about scaling Lemmy across multiple servers, with all the complexity that entails. I am probably not the best person to given advise on that though.

If our smaller instance ever gets to a size that is not feasible to run on a single server anymore, we will likely close registrations.