Emperor with no clothes?

You say volunteers, he thinks slaves

I think the thing to stop this happening is for the user to own the identity they use on Lemmy - so if you do not like what gas happened on the instance you signed up on, you can easily move to another instance or social media.

Lemmy is open source. Lots of people run instances, so there are a lot of choices.

That is why I am supportive of something like self-soverign I'd

https://exploding-heads.com/post/90

And they are bringing a diversity of opinions to Exploding Heads which is a big plus.

I want to speak up in defense of the Lemmy developers.

I run an instance that is probably the polar opposite of Lemmy.ml.

Yes Lemmy.ml blocked us from federating, but when it comes to getting a Lemmy instance up and running successfully, 99.99% of the time the developers have been both helpful and generous with their time.

Give them a break. They have created some great open source software that can serve as a foundation of an exciting future.

Best if you don't.

Why upset people unnecessarily?

People were complaining about the down votes being used unfairly and that bots were being used.

I don't want bots chewing up resources or wasting peoples time so I disabled them.

There are a bunch across the Lemmy verse. Here is one https://exploding-heads.com/c/australia

Sort of a shame Lemmy does not have a merge function where an instance could merge all the communities on the same subject together

I remember paying 22.5% interest on my mortgage when I was young.

Buckle up

Point of clarification, Exploding Heads is not "anti lgbtq"

Once you are an adult, we believe you should be free to make your own choices.

But we are highly protective of children.

• We do not believe they should be the subject of indoctrination, be subject to treatment programs that could sterilize them for life, or have breasts and penises chopped off.

• We do not believe their parents should be subjected to threats - legal, social, or emotional blackmail by medical "professionals"

• We believe sports are an important opportunity for our daughters to develop. We do not believe men should be stealing those opportunities from them.

• We believe our daughters have the right to privacy in changing rooms etc.

To be fair to all concerned, create an additional category for Trans athletes.

I 100% support this position:

Personally I’m of the mind that all drugs should be decriminalized and we should have a more practical approach to medicine. We need the education to be there though to turn people off, and the Healthcare to be there for easily avaliable treatment.

I had a look at github and it seems the sheer increase in volume of users has exposed problems/bottlenecks that were previously not apparent.

They are fixing as many as they can for v18 which some people are estimating is a couple of weeks, but there are a lot of issues to be fixed, do it could be longer.

My plan is to upgrade a couple of weeks after v18 is released to make sure any new issues are not introduced.

I have blocked that instance from Exploding Heads.

It is only only instance blocked and I trust you understand why.

Don't know. It has been happening since the upgrade

Agreed

We are getting big CPU spikes every hour or so.

Not sure why

That is the way it was in the article I linked to.

I usually try and copy and paste directly so as I do not misquote the writer accidentally.

I think it is the most I can do to try and make them happy.

Even if their instance did defederate Exploding Heads, they could still see Exploding Heads content if they visited another instance that is federated.

I think it works, but I guess we will find out.