redcalcium

I was wondering when Red Hat enshittification would began the moment IBM announced the acquisition. Turns out it begins today.

Congrats for the release! I finally have alternative to Jerboa!

Some feedback if you don't mind:

• Full Height view. It's like the full width view, but display the image without any cropping.
• Tap and hold to show image in full screen, release to close. Very useful for compact views. Also should works for articles thumbnails.
• Native imgur support. Right now it's treated as a web page. If it'll require using paid API, just disregard this until you have some funding.
• Preload images when on wifi (optional setting). Basically preload the next N images in the list so they'll appear instantly.
• Show full community names and user name. Right now it only show the community name and user name, but not the instance name. This is confusing if you subscribed to multiple communities with the same name from multiple instances. Same for usernames.
• option to toggle denser comments views with minimal whitespace.
• (possible bug?) The community list on the side menu doesn't show all my subscribed communities.

ActivityPub traffics are not that heavy. The activities are queued in the background and processed by a pool of dedicated workers, so no matter how long the queue, they should not bog the webserver down. Each entry in the queue does occupy some memory, but should be negligible.

I would say that an active users subscribing to a community using their own instance is actually generating less server load to the subscribed community's instance compared to a user in that instance actively interacting with the community directly. But, if you subscribe using a personal instance but never actually use it (never logging in, never interacting with the community, never lurking in any discussion, basically forgot it exists), then yeah, you're probably a dead weight, albeit a tiny one.

If game companies would stop consolidating themselves into bigger and bigger corporations, that would be great. The bigger the company, the more profits they need in order to sustain themselves at their size. There is only so much you can profit from games without turning them into microtransaction mess. There must be a sweet spot for game company size so they're able to produce AAA games without needing to add microtransaction to make the game profitable to pay their employees.

I'm still going back from time to time to promote fediverse and participate in the protest posts. I'm still spending more time here though.

Then it's no longer only a bot, right? There are real humans working on those captcha farm. Those captcha farm also won't solve the captcha instantly, but there will be some delays for a human to solve the captcha. You're effectively turning graphical captcha into proof-of-work captcha this way, which will have the same effect as mCaptcha due to increased cost (in this case, captcha farm cost instead of computational cost) for the bot operator.

I'm mixed about this. When applied correctly, a graphical captcha will let zero bots in, at the expense of false positives and frustrated users. On the other hand, invisible / proof-of-work captchas will let a fraction of the bots in (blocking majority but not all bots, by design), while providing better experience for legitimate users. Pick your poison basically.

Another option is to put the instance behind cloudflare and enable the highest security settings on the signup/login page using a page rule. Just be careful not to apply it to the whole site to avoid cloudflare blocking federation traffics.

Related issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3204

The devs seems to prefer mCaptcha (a proof-of-work captcha) than graphical captchas.

It's actually working, but there is no recent activity on that community around the time you add that community, which is why it appear empty. To manually populate your instance with the older posts, try copy pasting the old individual posts you'd like to "pull" in the search page.

Of all places to host your community in, why Discord? Discord is not indexed by search engines. If you wrote a long, thought-provoking piece there (I've seen many people do it), it's practically lost forever after the discussion move a few screens forward in a few hours. People from the future can't benefit from what you wrote when they're searching for similar topic in a search engine. The same can be said with Telegram and WhatsApp groups which are popular in certain communities.

Wait, I thought your instance will copy the media as well? For example, the image from this kbin post is also hosted by your instance here: https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/a52b7c5e-2dcf-4864-b737-33228fb565b0.png