Just be aware that by using Cloudflare, it actively decrypts your traffic on their end since it acts as a MiTM.

You’re welcome, and yeah, I solely use it to protect my box at home from malicious actors, since it’s more layers you have to break through. And it hides my real IP.

I forgot to add there are other free speech instances that I’ve seen on Pleroma that are considering setting up shop here, so we’ll have those to federate with if they decide to do it.

We went into this fully knowing that we will be blocked if it happens it happens. Hopefully our rules for how we should conduct ourselves when talking on other instances can mitigate this some. But we’ll see.

We’ve been getting countless signups because we’re blocked on beehaw and a few other instances that are deemed “safe.” Whatever that means…

People are clearly wanting to come here because we have stuff that other instances don’t. The ability to say stuff civilly without being immediately banned by internet hall monitors.

You can’t create your own communities on beehaw. The admins can only do that. Probably because that whole “safety” thing because words on a screen might make people feel unsafe…

NSFW is another thing. Most communities do not want to host it. Whether it be because they’re scared that they’ll get blacklisted by payment processors for having the gall to want to get off to some risque content, or just plain not having the stomach to moderate content that is downright disgusting.

I feel like this is turning into somewhat of a rant. My point is that if we get defederated by most instances, we’ll be fine. Because clearly this is the instance to be at. We’ve been getting upwards of 50ish signups a day to the point that we are now selecting for quality application reasons, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon.

I lean more towards the teen loli camp myself too.

“We reserve the right to ban you whenever we want.”

Wow, there’d be nothing left of my insides if I had that much olive oil 🤢. I highly doubt that’s true though, I can easily see that putting one in the ER.

Wonder if this will mean lower double digit TB drives will start becoming cheaper.

Hot… 🤤

Yeah, it’s one of my all time favorite game on the SNES.

The first game that I consciously remember playing was the Zelder: A Link to the Past for the SNES. I must’ve been 5 or 6 at the time.

Yep, the VPS is a reverse proxy that connects to my beefy server box at home. All the VPS has to do is route traffic to my box while my server box does the heavy lifting.

No you’re not. We all make simple mistakes. :C

Wait, I just now found it. Sorry. 😅

I went ahead and deleted it so you can create it again. There’s no way for admins to appoint mods that I know of, which is a good thing IMO.

Sure. My hosting infrastructure consists of a VPS that’s acting as a WAF/gateway to a server box that’s on my home connection. The data that travels to and from my server box is encrypted in a VPN tunnel. I chose the Netherlands for this location because it has very strong data privacy laws. I run a hypervisor on said server box too.

Thanks for sharing this. I tried finding out how to make the thumbnails bigger, but Lemmy’s documentation is pretty lacking and so it requires me to dig around on their git repository just to find stuff to configure.

Yeah, a friend sent me this which really caught my eye. Since I’m no stranger to containerization and use Docker a TON for my hosting needs, and am used to every docker image using a typical distro as a base (alpine, debian, Ubuntu, arch, etc.)

I really do hope the slow DB query bottleneck can be ironed out before D-Day (API shutdown) happens.

I have a beefy server box so I think my server can handle the increased traffic (if it happens), but anyone on a VPS provider is going to get lots of timeouts and other nasty stuff when people try to signup and use their chosen instance.

Okay, that Archer quote in this context made my day. LOL.