yes

funding from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey

I’m sure nothing bad will happen.

I’ve tried several distros before, none of them feel the same as arch linux, I keep coming back to it. It is simple and just works. The other distros feel too bloated out of the box, which immediately demotivates me. I don’t want to go through the hassle of removing everything I don’t need by hand, so arch is just perfect.

Though I think I shouldn’t have went with arch in my vps. I miss the automated security updates of Fedora.

It doesn’t use XMPP or Matrix. It’s just an open source Discord clone.

The one that banned you from !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was Ada. So I am assuming the instance wide ban was also performed by Ada. You should contact Ada through her Matrix: @ada:chat.blahaj.zone, your PMs via Lemmy will not go through.

Run a small periodic program in the background that will search for users with that name pattern using the Lemmy Search API and block them.

What’s your lemmy config?

Yes. Can be done with scripts.

Lemmy and Piefed both support disabling federation for specific communities, if you mean not allowing people from other instances to interact with the community. Or do you mean just not allowing comments?

Are you using postgresql 18? I tried upgrading yesterday from 17.6 and got an identical error message.

Welp, the fourth one can’t happen. Posts or comments by users won’t be stored in the database, so you can’t calculate “karma” for users.

The others are left to the community mods’ implementations.

Unfortunately there is also a need for automatic moderation.

Humans can’t catch everything.

By the way, mind telling me what was the most infuriating thing about Reddit’s automod to you?

All of them are possible with my current design plan, which is allowing mods to write the functionality themselves (instead of predefining them like in some other automods) in sandboxed Lua (might change).

I might still predefine some myself for performance.

Of course. Reddit’s automod is very simple.

My current design plan is leaving the implementation to community mods by embedding sandboxed Lua (might change).

For automated ones, sure. But if you just want to schedule some post you made, that functionality is already available in Piefed and will be available in Lemmy in the next 1.0.0 release as well.

There is something called OpenWebAuth that is currently in use by Hubzilla.

There’s even a FEP for it: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/61cf/fep-61cf.md

KDE does have a disk usage utility. It’s called Filelight

It’s only the Linux client that’s getting open sourced. NordVPN also offers dedicated client apps for various proprietary desktop and mobile OSes, and those clients remain proprietary themselves.

Hmm. That feels suspicious. It’s as if they are deliberately trying to get the more techy Linux users over.

You don’t need to calculate the average number of active users. If you do, it will be wasted resources and you probably will miss a few dozen.

Simply request the instance’s NodeInfo.

NodeInfo 2.1 (which Lemmy does implement) and I think 2.0 as well require implementors to provide correct user usage statistics. So you have total users and average active users per month/half year calculated on request.

This also means you can provide this service for other platforms that support NodeInfo.

Making a GET request to /.well-known/nodeinfo will give you the links to the instance’s NodeInfo documents.

In fact, you can recursively begin from some random known instance, get a list of other instances it is federated with, get their NodeInfo and repeat the process. NodeInfo also provides the name of the software (check schema).

You can use that.

FEP: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/0151/fep-0151.md

Schema: https://nodeinfo.diaspora.software/schema.html

Welp, I guess it needs some more development time.