I just posted about it in the support community: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60773
samick1
joined 1 year ago
Has that happened with Mastodon?
Orgs spending volunteer money have to be careful, they have to allocate money to their stated causes or they could get in trouble. A Lemmy instance would have to coincide with their agenda.
A philanthropist can do what they want, but they could still attract criticism for not donating to world hunger or some more optics-friendly cause. They'd also probably end up with a fairly popular instance which would require effort spent on maintenance and moderation.
I think people who actually want to run instances will end up running them. I'm considering starting one. Some of those will end up running really good, stable and desirable instances which can then attract donations for the cause.
Yes, they get stuck forever sometimes. When I come back a few hours later they'll often go through though.
But some lemmy.ml communities refuse to even federate at all and I don't know why yet. For instance I can federate this lemmy community as expected through sh.itjust.works:
https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]
But e.g. the kubuntu community doesn't work:
https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]
I get 404: couldnt_find_community. I've found a couple dozen others I'd like to subscribe to which do the same thing.
Edit: above issue is resolved, see here if interested.
Lots of stuff's down: https://downdetector.com/
May be CloudFlare: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Oh wow, that doesn't sound good. Stay safe!
I'm not from that area, what's a boil alert?
Reddit won't allow the dev to create an app where users can enter their own keys. So it will still be FOSS but you'd have to build it yourself with your own keys, if you can somehow obtain them. Thus there's no point in putting the app on F-Droid.
I joined reddit in 2007 but I'd been surfing it for a year or so already. Early reddit was amazing. There were no subreddits yet, which was fine, there weren't that many users. The concept of subreddits was innovative when they introduced them, but once you could create your own it was pretty mind blowing.
I always felt like reddit was "hiding" from the common folk. It had a plain white background with default blue & purple links and it looked like someone's personal project. Digg had lots of gradients and borders and glitz but reddit had a real "function over form" quality that really appealed to me as an engineer.
It makes me sad to think about how many terrible things it's been put through by its dumb ding dong owners over the years.
Just a thought - you should wait until the blackout is over at least, those submissions aren't accessible right now. After that, do it ASAP. Some communities are already permanently dark and more will be over time.
I've used a Python app called bdfr though not for the purposes of archiving an entire account. There are tutorials on how to do so out there if you search; perhaps there's a more purpose-made tool.
I did just now and it worked, and in fact the deep link works now too.
I tried it with another community I was unable to fed, [email protected] and it said "No results" for a while but then it found it. After that point, the deep link works for it too.
So evidently 1) the deep link only works with already-federated communities, 2) searching as you described causes the community to be federated, and 3) the search is slow and will say "No results" for a while.
I'll play around with a few others and see if this is correct.