Ah, such good guardians!

Three cats, but two named. Is one of these fluffs the “intruder” being defended against?

You may need to take a second read of the comment you’re replying to.

Plug-in solar panels may be an option, depending on your specific locality. Those don’t require the hefty permanent installation of typical rooftop solar.

In retrospect, it’s kind of wild how many of us (myself sadly included) actually believed Google’s “Don’t be evil” thing instead of seeing it as a “My “Not involved in human trafficking” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.” situation.

Who is this and what does this have to do with self hosting?

Yellow

Hrm, it looks from the comments like it’s still kind of janky, but definitely a step in the right direction!

Thank you; that’s really good to know!

But yes, it sounds like community migration is a real need.

If it helps, I definitely didn’t think it was AI even after that comment primed me to consider it. There were one or two parts where I went “this is a pattern I see in AI, but mostly that’s because it’s a common writing structure in the stuff AI was trained on.” I am also ND, though.

But also, it annoys me so deeply how many common things in human writing that AI picked up specifically because humans used it are now considered hallmarks of AI. Like, I get it, but also, don’t fuck with my em-dash.

From us, Dad! AI learned it from watching us!!

Specifically regarding the instance chooser point: I like the idea of a rotating cast of high uptime, low barrier instances, but in seeing current Lemmy cross-instance drama, I find myself wondering how best to navigate that.

For context, here’s a bit about my own Lemmy journey: when I signed up after looking for Reddit alternatives, I looked through the instance list, saw a few that looked appealing, and ultimately decided on SJW because it promised that shit would, indeed, just work. I joined via the mobile site in a mobile browser, with no idea yet about any of the apps or a lot of things, I spent a while playing around. In the process, I Ducked around and found out that Beehaw had defederated from SJW due to trolling issuws. Uh-oh! What did that mean? Was there going to be a bunch of stuff I was missing? Worse, had I accidentally joined a Bad Instance that was going to make everyone immediately make assumptions about my values when the only real values that had factored into my choice were “pls make it work?” Were people going to think I was a troll?

As it happens, I did some further research and found that Beehaw was an instance that favored a heavily moderated, tightly knit community that was somewhat defederation-happy towards more easily joined instances because of trolling potential. Okay. Their prerogative, and I get it, but not anything that needs to make me change instances. Cool.

So anyway, there’s been a whole lot of Controversy and Discourse about Lemmy.world and its main moderator recently. There have been defederations. Lemmy.world is one of the big, newbie-appealing instances, and in fact, the enshittification subreddit specifically links to Lemmy.world instead of join-lemmy.org.

So, how would we want to deal with a situation like this for rotating servers? Do we have best practices and guidelines in place for if a controversy emerges about an instance in rotation? Do we have some kinds of rules about moderation in eligible instances so that moderators who are found to be a problem through some process can be replaced to maintain the stability of the instance? What about rules for server sign-up policies? For example, reddthat.com allows sign-ups without email addresses, and I believe it’s the instance I just saw get defederated earlier from a large instance due to that extremely open sign-up policy leading to trolls.

I know the Fediverse does support instance migration in some form, but it honestly seems a bit confusing to me as a beginner, and something I’d rather avoid. Also as a beginner, joining an instance and spending hours trying to get acclimated, only to realize you’ve picked a Bad Instance and need to move, is possibly even more disheartening than going through a long list of instances in the first place, IMO.

I definitely agree that the long list of instances that new folks need to go through is a barrier to entry, just noting an additional consideration for discussion.

I vote we give it to PeerTube, video hosting is so resource intensive but there’s so much potential good content to be liberated from YouTube.

I tend not to recognize your username, because I’m bad at names, but I do always recognize superb owls. Keep it up! (You know, if you want to, I’m not your boss.)

I’m somewhat new, and don’t pay a lot of attention to usernames or use the user notes feature (kind of forgot it existed), so I mostly only recognize particularly distinctive usernames. There are a few I’ll recognize when I see them, but the only one that’s seared into my brain enough to list it offhand is a certain Satanic name.

Shout-out to “Nigel þornberry”

I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m glad you had 14 wonderful years together. I’m sure she knew how much you loved her.

I’d totally missed this story, OMG. Fucking incredible. Thanks for the summary.

Door dash lady?

Wait, it did? Do you have a link? All I can find are links to older articles.

One of many deeply frustrating things about Trump’s fire hose of terrible and frequently actively evil ideas is that not only do they come in such volumes that it’s overwhelming, but it’s also incredibly hard to tell if something is a brief fixation he will quickly move on from or something that is going to be a recurring issue to deal with.

Which is to say: Christ, he’s back on this one again?