Its not a bug but the mod log could use better filtering.
You can find it out yourself by registering with a test account.
Then cloudflare would be able to spy on all the traffic so thats not an option.
There is a 10k char limit.
Hetzner is great but they are very strict about piracy, so its not an option for lemmy.ml. For now the load has gone down so I will leave it like this, but a dedicated OVH server might be an option if load increases again.
Im also considering to setup nginx caching for lemmy.ml. Did you find a configuration which works?
Its just a markdown link so it can point anywhere.
If you really want to improve this, make a pull request. We are already very busy.
Cant respond, too many notifications to read and problems to fix.
There are a few main problems with performance which we are currently fixing:
Federation isnt causing any performance problems, its all due to database reads from local users.