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I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

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I don't know though. I'd find a certain amount of entertainment in watching him ummm and stutter his way through the explanation.

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As I recall if you login through full browser, click your user name and there should be a dedicated premium item in the menu. On there is where the cancel option was for me. Which is now gone because I've already cancelled. They just seem to want to give it to me for free.

I have a very weird other problem. I cancelled mine at the start of June after the API information came about. My last day was June 16th and I have a cancellation message to attest to that.

Except it now says July 16th is my last day and they didn't take the money and on the premium option it offers the subscription to me. So I am unsubscribed but, have free premium I don't even want.

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In that case, click the notification icon, and then messages at the top right of that it should open your messages up and you should have one from /u/reddit telling you that your subscription was cancelled. Do what I did, and screenshot it. Because I don't trust them at all any more :P

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I think the numlock key is a hangover from the IBM XT computers (maybe even before that). Those keyboards didn't have the cursor keys and other key block. So, the numlock key was quite important.

I know, because I got my first PC during the PC AT days right before they moved toward ATX. That was a full size keyboard.

I am surprised it has stuck around so long. I understand in the transition from XT to AT that perhaps computer operators got used to using the numpad for navigation and muscle memory would be ruined. But, you know it's like 40 years on now. There isn't really a modern day reason to keep it.

But, happy to be proven wrong.

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You can also follow an instance it if you want to see every single post from every single community on an instance for some reason.

And then you fill up the storage on the poor guy running his 10 user instance on a VPS. :P

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Why not both?

Oh, I see images in comments don't come across to lemmy. https://media.kbin.life/e9/37/e93745c48603398e14f513ba41b3de0587ee3e4dac7ce81f3430b0749b261a52.jpg it was this.!

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Meanwhile, in the background the compiler optimizes them all to the same result anyway. :P

Don't federated instances just exacerbate already existing problems with places like Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter? Specifically admin/mod abuse, excessive reposting/cross-posting, server lag/issues?

So considering there’s a substantial push to get away from places like Reddit and Twitter, as an outsider I’m wondering how the fediverse is going to actually provide solutions to some already bad problems within higher resource platforms:...

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Here I have to speculate because I just don’t know enough about the technical side of it. At the moment, most issues seem to be cause by software bugs, not by too much traffic or hardware performance.

Handling high amounts of traffic and activity is always tricky. I believe scalability will probably be an issue that will arise, maybe sooner than later, but I don’t think it’s an unsolvable issue.

I'm running a small instance with around 55 communities/magazines. But, running on kbin. I'm currently getting an average of 5 federation messages a second, of course most of them are like notifications. The LA on the server is 1.55 1.35 1.05 right now, that's with a 16 thread cpu, and the server is also doing a lot of other things. At the current level of traffic, the load of federation at least is negligible.

I only have myself as a user right now though, because for whatever reason my instance doesn't show up in fedidb unless you actually search for it. But it's not in any of the lists they publish of instances they are blocking or hiding.

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And clean the chute up there.

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I had a server lost in that fire. Luckily I had a full cloud backup. Watching some businesses freak out about losing their data was crazy.

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In theory, they could I guess have users set up their own client Id etc and have a place to enter it in the app. But, I'm afraid for me, it's no longer just the API business. Their response to protests about this revealed a lot about reddit, and none of it was good in my opinion.

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I think they did turn it on initially on the day because I do remember loading RIF in the morning and getting reported 429 errors. But I've heard since that it is working again. So, maybe they backed down a bit in the end.

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I think they forgot to include "in the style of a redditor" in the AI prompt.

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Close enough!

Wouldn't the fediverse work better if it was like a drive array rather than independent communities on independent servers?

I get the impression that we’re headed for the same issues that pop up when we put all our eggs in one basket with Reddit/FB/whatever. People flock to the largest instance, and someday that instance could go down due to cost or the host losing interest....

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You could in theory nominate one instance to take over a community. They would then hack their database a little to make it local.

But, I could be wrong. Doesn't lemmy use the original URL for media? So you would lose that unless the transfer was co-ordinated before they shut down. Kbin does take a copy of the media and self hosts, which of course comes with its own problems.

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I remember, I was on holiday 4 or 5 years ago. I was sitting at the bar having my morning coffee and browsing reddit and I was getting annoyed that if I went to get a drink from the bar when I came back and turned the screen back on it would reset my position in the comments.

So, I asked around and was recommended RIF. Not only did it keep comment position, but it was just all round in every single way better.

No, I couldn't go back to the official app.

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And here, is where I dig up all my fellow oldies.

Everyone loves magical Trevor, the tricks that he does are ever so clever!

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A snake, a snake! Oh, it's a snake.

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It doesn't get everything. At least it's not what kbin is doing, and I expect lemmy is the same. How it works for kbin is, once you subscribe you will start getting info about ANY change. A like, comment or anything like that.

So, someone likes a comment, anywhere on any instance. We'll get sent that like. But we don't have the comment. So, we fetch the comment. But, wait this one was a comment on a previous comment. So we'll fetch that too. All the way to the post. Also any users involved (the liker, and commenters back to original poster) will also be fetched. The hierarchy to the comment that was liked is then built, and then the like itself is applied.

That's why you will start to see a lot of old posts, but not all of them. It's just going to slowly build up over time as people interact and of course you'll get anything new.

Even with this I'm getting a LOT of content right now delivered.

EDIT: Not sure why I posted without finishing typing before.

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Repeating of course.

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Oh no!

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Wait, why wouldn't they invite us?

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In other news, War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

(Controversial) Should lemmy.world close registrations at a certain user count?

To support decentralization and spread, should lemmy.world close registration at some point to prevent a performance overload due to too many users? Of course, if registration is disabled, there could be a hint placed somewhere near that from other instances you can interact with content on lemmy.world just like you had...

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Even as a small instance operator, the media storage increases at a pretty steady rate. It's probably going to be a case of months or even years before it starts getting to costing money I will notice. But, still I guess we can by then start to purge very old stuff if we're not a big instance though.

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What would the other option be though "No, I don't believe in errors" ?

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Back in the early 2000's I had the windows error sound play Neo saying "Oh shit!" from the Matrix. After a while, it just got annoying though.

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This becomes a problem though when, like in my case at the moment I'm just me running my own instance. Even if other users join my instance, how many are going to want to moderate the content? Not many I'd bet. There is so much content coming in right now. As of right now I've received 405 new threads, 5652 new comments and information like avatars (which could also be explicit) from 6058 users.

How does one person moderate all of that? I'm not sure (not tested, but I doubt it) whether a moderator deleting a comment or a post on the owning instance is also sent to other instances federating. I think it should (and maybe have it configurable whether you honour them or not, but it should be on by default). That way the moderator team on the hosting instance is removing stuff. Sure on a per instance level reported content can also be deleted. But that should be the outlier.

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Yes, but what I mean is that unless the deletions are propagated over the network, smaller instance operators will keep those potentially illegal posts and comments and they don't have the moderator team.

I'm hoping deletes are propagated and respected. Otherwise it creates a real problem for me.

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I uninstalled RIF and don't think I've looked at reddit since. I'd generally do most of my reddit browsing via RIF and longer posts I might pull up a browser on my PC to type on a keyboard.

But without the initial browsing on RIF, I've not felt the need to open it up at all on desktop.

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Same thing. I knew people were doing it, but figured "what's the chance it will happen to my searches?" turns out, a pretty reasonable chance.

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You're really not likely to find that out unless it becomes so obvious everyone can see. Reddit will not give that information out. My opinion is, not to dwell on what they've lost but instead what I've gained.

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When you get a 502 error, that's not coming from lemmy, it's coming from nginx. If you're saying that nginx should send any error data along with the status in json if the accept headers require it, that's a task for nginx but it wouldn't happen in this case anyway since the json wouldn't be what they were expecting anyway. The app should be handling non success responses better is the point being made here.

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I think large data broker businesses are going to have a hard time integrating federated sources with their existing user data. Mainly because, they have privacy policies that let them sell their user's data, retain it, monetise it and overall take ownership of it. Everyone that signs up to any of the bigger social media sites agrees to that.

But the user's whose data they will be vacuuming up by joining federated instances will not have agreed to any such privacy policy and as such could create a need to at least separate data.

I'm not a legal expert, but I'm sure there's a reason for these long and convoluted privacy policies and I find it hard to believe they work in the user's favour.

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No! Forced to create an account but not on the flagship instances!

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UK, checking in.

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In most cases, the ping from the US to Europe is going to be <500ms. Half a second. Now, back when most stuff was serves up sequentially and the turnaround time from ping between getting each small file mattered. Now, page and media are pulled in one. So, really you shouldn't feel much difference.

There will be a difference, sure. But it will be negligible I'd expect. But, you can just visit some different ones and see.

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It's pretty much this. So the instance the group is on, is the controller of the group. Posts from that instance or others are sent there and that instance distributes the posts and comments to other instances with users subscribed.

Likes work just the same, you click a like, your instance sends that like to the controller instance and that then sends those likes out to subscribed instances.

It doesn't always happen in real time though.

Is there somewhere we can easily see the growth in Lemmy users and instances?

Curious if anyone has put together a site or something similar to view the stats for total users and instances on Lemmy? I know there’s a lot of people joining from reddit in the past few days (myself included) and thought it would be cool to see this as a historical graph.

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They actually have a threadiverse grouping on fedidb combining lemmy and kbin now. https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

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you signed up to one of the biggest instances, this is not like reddit, its a federation so it does not matter as much what server you are on, however adding load to the big servers is causing BIG issues for them.

It's actually causing issues to other instances too. Lemmy.world is often responding 429 to our requests for fill in comments and posts. Meaning those messages don't get processed until some time in the future.

But, I can still understand why people flock to the flagship instances. Just on the kind of network, it's not ideal.

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Sadly, after all my years of my existence it's become painfully clear that, actually marketing really does work. And the better domain name with the better marketing more often wins.

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You're on a kbin instance, and it is the main one so most of them are probably already there. If any of them is not, just click the search button at the top of the screen and enter the name you see above without the ! and without the space before the @. e.g. "[email protected]", your instance will then look it up and subscribe you to it if found.

It might take a while for threads to begin to appear if it wasn't already there though.

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I posted an answer above to the same question.

In case you cannot see it:

You're on a kbin instance, and it is the main one so most of them are probably already there. If any of them is not, just click the search button at the top of the screen and enter the name you see above without the ! and without the space before the @. e.g. "[email protected]", your instance will then look it up and subscribe you to it if found.

It might take a while for threads to begin to appear if it wasn't already there though.

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Ah 2003, I remember it well.

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First off, I assumed the original question was a troll. But, regardless. I'm not completely certain but, I doubt this was a known thing in 1985. I could be wrong but sometimes, things are just coincidences.

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As a victim of domestic violence who has spent years online trying to help other victims, Reddit's act of undeleting several of my deleted comments just made me have to go through and manually delete. In the process, I had to relive a huge chunk of trauma.

I'm not feeling okay right now.

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You know it's probably on page 1023 of the privacy policy. I think it's more to the point to ask, how do they think this is the right way to approach the problem they have?

All it's going to do is severely reduce the chance people will ever go back to that platform. I think with the response to the API changes, reddit was backed into a corner (in a corporate sense) and is now showing their true colours.

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"The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance." - why does this appear and how can I turn it off? I cannot log in to other servers to post

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@ABCDE it's just telling you that having subscribed to a community on another instance after it was created there may be older posts that are not present on your instance and providing you a link to the same community on the home instance if you want to look at older/not yet federated content.

Not sure if you can turn it off though.

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