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That quotation and the other one in the article seem to be from comments on the social media posts, not comments from people actually on the cliff.

I have two .af domain names that got suspended as well. I don’t even think they had a single DNS record set right now, but I had short-term plans for them. Oh well.

Probably because of all the crustaceans.

Fair point, but we should celebrate any privacy wins we can get. That privacy is a consideration at all is a good start.

With the right circumstances, you can sometimes see the actor’s pulse on their neck. Sometimes they’ll hold their breath or breathe slowly, but there’s not much you can do about the heart.

Kbin is barely a prototype, so I wouldn’t say it has a real approach to the UI. It’s about to go through a lot of change as contributors begin working on a more thoughtfully designed UI. Many basics are not even implemented in its current state, so expect it to change a lot. Also third-party apps will start showing up once an API is added.

That is, check on it again in a few weeks.

I think there is some confusion. Lemmy.ml is itself an instance. Hosting your own means not using lemmy.ml.

Yes, that’s what it means. If you look under the names, you’ll see “public” or “private.” The way they are going offline is to make the subreddits private. The green ones are labeled private.

I don’t think the problem is limited to “morons.” I understand this system and have operated federated services in the past, but it is a lot more work just to navigate this when compared to something like Reddit. I don’t have a ton of free time, and I’d rather spend that time engaging with the community vs wrestling with the service or trying to find which instance has the most activity. I know this will get better as it grows, but a lot of people will just get fed up and go somewhere they can just socialize.

There are many instances (“servers”) of the service running, and each one can have its own, local equivalent of a subreddit. We can see and interact with all of them. I just went through 15 pages of “magazines” and subscribed to communities with the same name on 2+ instances at least a dozen times.

Suppose I am interested in photography, so I subscribe to the photography community on instance “foo.” Another user has the same interest, but they find the community on instance “bar” and subscribe to that. If I post on photography@foo, they won’t see it. The community is effectively split — often into more than two parts.

This makes it really difficult to build an engaging community at a scale similar to Reddit’s. Ideally, users will eventually congregate around just a few, but this is going to make early growth quite painful. And it isn’t intuitive to newcomers.