Weve been through this two times already in the last month. Time for another wave...
It would help if overloaded instances closed signups, then they would be unlisted from join-lemmy.org
And a few minutes after dead silent dialog, movies start blasting explosions and gunshots loud enough to wake up the whole neighborhood.
Used Thinkpads are usually the best choice. Very reliable and not expensive.
Part of the reason is that this instance already has a certain topic around open source and privacy, but new communities are being created for completely unrelated topics. It also causes extra moderation work to look after these communities. So theres no reason to deal with this when countless other instances welcome new communities.
They are Star Trek vessels (or bases).
Yes Lemmy also shows cake day on the comments. There will be a lot of those a year from now.
It's xss, so users could include javascript code in posts which would be executed in other users browsers. We announce new releases in a couple of places, like the instance admin chat, !lemmy@lemmy.ml community and github releases.
There are mirrors of the Lemmy code on Gitea and Gitlab. They are linked in the readme. We also hope to migrate development to Gitea once federation is implemented.
Anything to make you feel at home ๐ฅฐ