Lol I remember trying to get my parents to get an ISDN line installed back in ‘95 or ‘96 - the price was ridiculous. I was stuck on 56k until 2001 when I went to work for an ISP and was able to get a 1.5M SDSL line and was fucking ecstatic. Used it to run a CS1.6 server from my closet.

Edit: actually I did have a 1.5/128 ADSL line somewhere in there for a little bit.

Lol, man I remember in ‘99 having a stack of 100Mb Zip disks, using the college’s computer lab to do all my downloading on their T1 then walking my goods back to my dorm room. I’d load up a queue in the morning, then swing back by in the afternoon after classes. Such simpler times.

Shit, I used to run a WWIV 4.23 BBS back in the day. First modem was 9600 baud. Then 14.4k, 28.8k, and lastly 56k - screaming fast! Nothing like watching boobie pics loading one line at a time…

Edit: I remember signing up with Prodigy and participating in my very first AMA, with Quark and Dax from DS9. Good times.

Would compressed air or a dust buster be better for this? Or both?

A big problem with this is that since 2016 the bots and hired commenters have thoroughly poisoned the intellectual well. What used to be considered extreme in 2016 was so artificially boosted that now real people have completely bought into the bullshit.

Kbin has this ability, but Lemmy does not (yet).

Totally depends on the challenge of the project - and it follows a bell curve. Too easy and it’s annoying, too difficult (or takes too long) and it’s fucking aggravating. But those rare Goldilocks projects that are a challenge but shit just clicks along? Chefs kiss.

Another vote for UniFi gear. I administer four homes for myself and my family, three of them all use UniFi equipment (and the fourth will next time I get over there, it’s in another country).

Anybody else have a problem with this part?

“Mod bots are allowed under the free api tier!”

“Ours aren’t.”

“Ok, what bots are yours?”

“These ones.”

“Ok, they’re exempt now.”

Like…. Wtf? Oh, I guess everything’s ok now then. This just rubs me the wrong way on multiple levels.

It places the post into moderator-approval limbo. The post will then be approved in a timely fashion, once the mod on duty has had a chance to review it. The current estimated wait time for mod review and approval of the post in question is 2-3 weeks, but sometimes as much as 500. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Sounds like it could also be glorious, for the exact same reasons! 🤣

And the phone number matching, well that can easily be spoofed. Can never be too careful, gotta follow the process.

What is kbin.social doing differently?

Unknown about kbin, but I’ve heard that Hot is currently broken for (most?) instances across the lemmyverse. (This might be related to the size of the instance - apparently for small (single-to-double-digit users) instances Hot works fine?)

Edit: and this is supposed to be fixed in the next release, 0.18

I’d have to bet that no, they’ll lose value. Currently aged accounts are valuable to be used as spam/click bots, but once api access goes so do the click-farms (in theory)

Not wholly unrelated, I’ve noticed a massive uptick in NSFW content, both OC and reposted, and historically that tends to be a good indication of where people are flocking to.

Lol, wouldn’t be the first time NSFW picks the winner - see VHS, Bluray.

But crucially it was also mature enough that there was a community and very low barrier to entry.

This is the biggest difference between then and now - back then, Reddit was mostly fully fleshed out and ready to go - it’s problem was scale and being able to handle the influx of a digg migration.

Currently, lemmy isn’t ready yet - although it’s close. The best way I’ve heard it put is that “they’re building the plane while it’s in flight and boarding new passengers.” Version 0.18 seems to hold a lot of promise, they need to get it launched ASAP to get lemmy’s functionality where it needs to be, but also at the same time prepare for the traffic spikes that are also coming. I do not envy the devs.

Yup. Reddit used to be the place to go to be ahead of the news cycle, but it hasn’t been that for quite some time.

That’s fine, actually. If Reddit wants to “hire” mods then they can actually pay them, which hurts their bottom line. (And they probably should have done that a looong time ago, for the largest subs anyways.)

If they just replace the mods with more unpaid volunteers, that will be a shitshow in itself - just imagine the people who would want to do that “job” but without any of the effective tools.

Either way, 🍿

Yeah I can see that.

Maybe name it /c/arborists? 🤷‍♂️

Shame that that baggage would have to carry over, but the flip side is can you imagine the confusion if it didn’t.

I joined sh.itjust.works because I like the domain. It makes me smile 🙂