I’ve subscribed to patreon in the beginning, and one of the perks was supposedly access to a private group with the devs on discord or matrix, forgot which one. After 3 months and a few questions on how and where to gain access that went completely ignored, I stopped. Not because of the money; but because empty promises don’t sit well with me.

Edit: They still list “access to the development chatroom” as a perk, now even in the $1 tier. Used to be only from $5.

Wanted to recommend Nestle Trio as they are identical to the C-3PO cereals, only to find out they’ve been discontinued as well. Shame.

The UI is terrible. Unintuitive and can’t be customized. What’s good about it?

How much for a permaban? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I guess they might, but right now, they don’t.

Signal messenger allows you to set up user handles since the latest beta, and they can be discarded and changed at any time, that’s great for privacy.

True, what I mean is that federation removes the need for scraping since the data is delivered to you in its purest form.

No, I mean companies that have only one objective - gather user data. Advertisers, marketing agencies, AI language models, corporates. If they federate with other instances, they essentially copy all posts and messages (including private messages!) over to their own server, and can then run it through data analytics software for whatever use case they have, try to match your user profile to other advertiser profiles they already have on you, etc.

And there’s nothing you can do about it, that’s simply how a decentralized network works. Every node in the system can see all the data and use it as they see fit.

Is each instance like another person with a server?

Individual person, group of people, nonprofit, company, governments, political parties, whatever. Anything goes.

Could that person just shut it down whenever they wanted to?

Yes. That’s why it’s advisable to join one with a dedicated group of committed individuals, or run your own. Joining super small servers might sound nice, but the owners might just ditch it.

Are there any companies that have invested in hosting Lemmy/ other fediverse servers?

There are some run by companies, yes, for example social.bbc which is run by the British Broadcasting Corporation. gruene.social is run by the Greens (political party) in Germany, and social.overheid.nl is operated by the Dutch government.

There will probably be some company-run instances that don’t allow user signup, since all they do is feredate with everyone and exfiltrate data. It’s what people do…

I’m regularly going to a Finnish sauna with >80°C, but air with 100% humidity is not the same as immersing yourself in scalding hot water.

Temperatures beyond 50°C are an acute risk. 75°C can cause lasting damages.

Yeah I’m German, I saw them as well. There must have been at least 4, but probably way more. We got them from the Netherlands for some reason.

Not sure I remember that particular one, but there was a lot of messed up shit I really shouldn’t have seen with 12 years.

Oh no, it’s a shit show thanks to an absolute monopoly of the German Telecom that was only broken a few years ago. Most households have copper wires only, and fiber extension is slow and costly.

Thanks a lot! Will be an interesting journey for sure.

And yeah that’s what I thought, I had 100 asymmetrical before when living alone, and thought there’s still room for improvement, but it’s a declining balance really. My friend has a 4 person household and never even came close to utilizing his full bandwidth, he basically told me he took the biggest package just because he could.

rotten.com has entered the chat.

1000/1000 for like $3 a month. But that’s with the caveat of living in China, where I need a VPN to access most western websites, so that’s my bottleneck.

Domestically I can get the full bandwidth when streaming (ton of English content available for cheap), but once I need to use the VPN it drops to maybe 200-300 mbit, depending on the server and current utilization.

Moving to Malaysia in less than 2 months where I can get 2gbit for about $90 (tested at my friend’s house), but honestly I think I’ll settle on 500. It’s more than I can realistically use in a 2 person household, and it’s like 20 bucks.

Germany?

I make a long list of things for people to do in order to create a final outcome, and then keep track of the progress and find solutions for deviations.

Project manager.

They never really called it that, but I’m pretty sure the concept isn’t new. Architects and the likes did pretty much the same when building ginormous structures back in ancient Rome and Egypt, so they’d get the idea. Probably wouldn’t understand the project deliverable, but at least the process.

We had a whatsapp group for a solid decade and then finally migrated it to signal last year.

I don’t get the point of using facebook to stay in touch with groups of people. For individuals maybe, but if you want to talk to more than one person, it’s pretty useless.