I get that not everything can be free. I’m more than willing to pay for sites and services that have value to me. But companies constantly selling your data, blasting you with advertisements and then having the gall to ask you to pay for the pleasure? It’s blatant rent-seeking.

Yes. It doesn’t outright kill an instance, but it’s definitely a major inconvenience and a learning opportunity.

It’s my understanding that this isn’t possible. Migrating domains in Lemmy is not supported though it is possible with some very hacky solutions like you’re describing. But the old domain needs to be retained indefinitely as a pointer to the new domain or it will break federation with other instances. If they lose control of the domain or can’t keep it basically forever then federation will break. They can potentially migrate users and posts, but it is effectively like resetting and starting over as a new instance.

Most of the hacky ways around it involve retaining ownership of the old domain and leaving it up indefinitely as a pointer to the new location. If your domain is taken from you though there is not much you can do.

Seriously dumb to have used this TLD considering there are a ton of choices these days.

I’m now wondering what happens if the Mali government (or someone else) begins using those domains with their own lemmy instance, potentially with malicious content.

Would the instances they’ve federated with begin ingesting and serving that content automatically? Or would that be blocked due to key mismatch?

A more perfect analogy would be the truck driver handing the other guy the balaclava and watching him put it on in front of him and then take it off again before he left. Not really much more private.

I’m starting to think we just need to rebrand green energy projects to sound more like a tech concept to trick people into liking it more.

It’s not solar, it’s LightWave.

I wonder if we need ‘aggregate communities’ where communities across instances can agree to share a set of rules and guidelines. You still have to pick which community to post in but the content itself can be browsed like one large community, similar to a ‘multireddit’.

Not sure if this would work in practice but it could be a way to merge communities across instances. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about to address fragmentation without solving it by centralizing around one big platform.

My dongers have never been higher.

I think a combination of 3d animation and ‘ai postprocessing’ is probably the most effective result.

As much as I respect the rights of extras, they are expensive and easier to replace than lead actors. Disney already has things setup so extras never have to be on set with your lead actors, although you get a lot of backgrounds with ‘people just walking back and forth with no purpose’, but a bit more effort will mean those prefilmed backgrounds wont even require human actors, they barely do already.

Obviously you should only input account credentials into an app you trust, but shouldn’t a properly designed Lemmy app not store the credentials in plain text at all? (And definitely never send them somewhere else) Authorize the user through the API and then it’s just an authenticated session, no need to store the username/password at all until you sign out.

I suppose if you have fast user switching it might need to store it. Hmmmm.

Pretty funny but if you enter you actual password it will hide it. My pass is ************, which should show up as asterisks for you.

Try it out. Pretty cool security feature honestly.

Ehhh, looking into this a bit it seems like “Astral Projection” and “Near Death Experiences” are paranormal explanations for a category of ‘Out of Body Experiences’ that aren’t very well understood. I guess it’s fine to say that those experiences are real, but those specific terms seem rooted in esotericism rather than science.

Very nice! This is basically exactly what I’m doing except I’m doing it in ansible and using the linuxserver/wireguard container.

I run wireguard in one container (as a client connected to Mullvad), and then qBittorent in another container but using the network of the wireguard container.

Then I just set up routing rules in wireguard to allow my local network to be exempted from the tunnel so I can reach the web interface of qBittorent.

All my torrent traffic goes over the VPN, I can still reach the webui and none of my other containers are affected. Super simple and very reliable.

He just wants popular and already famous people on his platform. He doesn’t understand that a well designed platform will surface that content for the people that want it. Instead he wants to jump straight to things that are already popular and then force everyone to see those things. It’s completely backwards.

Elon just wants everyone to think he’s funny and smart.

Unfortunately he’s so determined to be constantly visibly online it’s completely shattered that illusion.

qBittorent but I typically access it using Flood as a frontend unless I need advanced features that aren’t available in the Flood UI.

My experience with private torrents is a little out of date but you might be right, that could cause problems with how your seed ratio is reported for trackers.

Exposing your public IP to the website itself is not typically as much of a risk. Bad actors would have to get law enforcement to force the website owners to turn over visitor and activity logs to prove that your public IP visited a site and downloaded a torrent. But if that same IP never downloaded or uploaded content using that torrent, then there is no real evidence of actual media sharing.