• option 2: leave it up to users to block @[email protected]

• option 1: Defederate from Lemmit.Online

• option 3: Ban @[email protected] from lemmy.ca

Thank you for the warm welcome. As @Smorks said there are many others behind the scenes that may or may not show up in the admin list over the next while.

We are currently actively preparing to transition the instance to a new dedicated server by the end of the weekend at the latest. We hope this higher powered server will be sufficient for the next few months but are ready with plans to scale up further when needed.

Unfortunately this means that there maybe some short periods of downtime over the weekend. We will make a post announcing planned downtime.

Would be interested in knowing what kind of future projects we’re thinking about?

Other than a potential matrix server, I do not currently have anything in mind. The future is unpredictable.

An example of a non-profit effort that I took on in the past is COVID PPE 3D printing with volunteer community printers. If something like that was needed for pandemic or disaster relief again would be nice to not have to go through the trouble of spinning up a new non-profit.

I think we can definitely work with Canadian Open Source Communication Association. Maybe swap out Communication for Community.

I mean... They'd be kind of silly to accept a 2% increase in wages when inflation is much higher than that. That's not a raise that's a pay cut

The current funds are enough to operate it at it's current capacity for ~11 months. Once we get to accepting donations again and figure out how to set up our accounting, I would definitely like to see a growing contingency reserve fund built up to be ready for future unexpected growth or unexpected slowdown in donations.

We will continue to be transparent in a similar format to this but split the remaining balance in a operating fund and reserve fund.

The strategy wasn't to run a business, it was to get arrested, charged, then challenge the charges in court to create new case law permitting sale of safe support supply (I think), or maybe it was going to be a charter challenge, but regardless, being shut down and arrested was part of the plan.

Thanks for the kind words. We try our best, and we owe a lot to @[email protected] for setting the right tone got the instance to start with!

Correction: "you cannot get any closer legally"

I've seen many people to over the fence. Not a great idea at all.

Lemmy.ca is +1615%

Most (probably) all microwaves can be silenced. Usually by holding the "2" botton for 3 seconds.

This is very unfortunate. I really thought his plan of challenging the status quo of safe supply was going to make a difference.

I'm curious why you say that. Seems to work fine on Android in browser.

We're going to reopen donations within the next few days!

While incorporating as a non-profit association is 100% part of the plans, being recognized as a charitable organization to be able to make donations tax-deductible for donors is going to be a very difficult threshold to pass with what we are doing from what I recall last time I went through non-profit registration stuff. Will definitely look into it though.

@[email protected], it posts links to Reddit posts in corresponding communities on https://lemmit.online. 99% of it's posts get no engagement.

Unless you're browning all instances sorted by new, you would never notice it's activity.

What's wrong with that?

It never even made it to the members. Their caucus voted it down. That's a really strong signal to the employer that they need to do better.