The problem with this is trust. If you could seamlessly migrate like this, there’s nothing to stop someone faking a long post/comment on their own instance, making them look very legitimate and then migrating that account to a trusted/legitimate instance.

Then using that for spam/selling block chain etc.

People are the reason we can’t have nice things.

How you can have an article talking about the history of email and it not be about Ray Tomlinson, I just don’t know. Wait - now I know: This person looked up the Wikipedia article on the smtp protocol and decided Mr. Postal was the pioneer of email.

The conclusion is completely incorrect, also. About the only correct thing was that reputation is important for email transmission.

No: you can’t just set up an smtp outbound server on your home server and expect the world to trust you. For good reason: we’ve had decades of trojans and viruses taking over home PCs and sending spam. Your ISP declares its “home” IP ranges, and those are immediately not trusted.

That doesn’t mean you need to use a big email hosting provider. If you set up on a business IP range, configure your DNS Correctly with declared mx and spf records, the world will trust you (until you demonstrate that it can’t).

Millions of businesses around the world do this.

There is nothing that I want to watch badly enough that I would put up with this behavior.

I should probably know this, but why “threadverse” and not “fediverse”? The name Threadverse sounds like a Meta trademark.

https://instance.name/instances

This tells you which instances are federated/blocked. Everyone should have an /instances page.

We have big red magnets representing blocked to put on the board. We have to speak about every single blocker every stand up and what the team’s path forward is to unblock the thing. If it’s waiting for vendor, then that’s all we can do. If the ball is in our court for any blockers, and its still there tomorrow without a really good reason, there is hell to pay.

This one has been brought to my attention. Apologies all, the user is now in the sin bin for a week. Hopefully he’ll tone it down and play nicer if/when he comes back.

This behavior is not representative of aussie.zone users.

We require an email address and a response to a question on our signups. The response doesn’t need to be more than about 5 words, it’s just to stop bots putting random characters or single words in there.

So far, it has seemed to ride that balance between low bar of entry and too hard to spam with bot applicants.

That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

Dude, everyone understands the tipping system

This is not true. I’ve visited the USA multiple times and I’ve gotten tipping wrong every time.

the market isn’t gonna correct if it goes away because you’ll still be paying the exact same amount.

This is also not really true. You look at a menu in Australia and the price you see is the exact amount you pay. $20 lunch is $20 on the bill. No added tips or taxes or anything.

For the customer, this system is better.

Saying that same lunch in the USA would ‘have been $14 on the menu in the USA’ would not match my experience. In fact, prices for most things were in the same rough ballpark once the exchange rate was factored in.

Caveat: my last visit was 10 years ago. My experience may be out of date. 15% was considered a normal tip, then.

I haven’t used Opera in a long time, but I used it heavily 20 years ago. Back then you had to pay for it or there was a big ad banner on the toolbar.

It certainly wasn’t always Chromium based, Chrome didn’t come along until 2009 or something. Not sure when that change happened.

If I had to go back to that job I was doing (Internet Help desk) again, I’d consider Opera again. It was fast at navigating an intranet site where all the images were cached locally, but the killer feature for me was the back/forward. If you went back, all the stuff you typed in the form was still there. So you could resubmit it if the session had timed out or there was an issue.

I still use mouse gestures (an Opera thing) via extensions with whatever browser I have used since.

You might be surprised. Half of us were either born overseas or had at least one parent born overseas. A little under a third of us have English as our second language. That doesn’t mean that two thirds of us only speak English - only that English is our ‘home’ language.

I know there’s a lot of multiculuralism in the USA also, but I don’t know whether those percentages compare.

Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/lookup/media release3

I’m a simple person. My main philosophy for just about everything is: “if everyone did this, would the world be a better place?”

Things I do, things I say, things I think. I know I won’t change the world (much). But I won’t make it worse.

Ha! They’ve revived place? They must really be desperate for engagement.

I loved place both previous times it happened. I’ll happily look at the final canvas, but that’ll be the extent of my involvement this time.

I can’t tell you how tempting it was to make ericxjo@aussie.zone, backdate its created date to yours and mess with you.

“Oh yeah, she told me about you. How are you doing?”

It turns out I’ve grown up a bit.