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Are you thinking of beehaw.org?

Making an “ouch” device or basic heater is something I could do.

Even a battery I could make a simple alumium air battery cell. Or lemon battery. But I’d be viewed like a sorcerer asking for foreign ingredients like salt, aluminum, copper and zinc.

there’s less variety in where money ends up

that’s exactly the thing rich corps want. Whatever money and power that’s left to go into their coffers.

All/New was the only way you could get an entirely new feed a couple times a day.

There was still some lore and beefs between servers (like with wolfballz, a right wing community taken down for hatespeech, or hexbear that became incompatible and headed their own way). Feddit.de has a still a bunch of old federated servers cached that came into and went out of existence.

Between Lemmy.ca (I joined there in March) and Beehaw, there were 10 people posting regularly as in a handful of posts a day. Lemmy.ml had a mix of general news and user “Yogthos” posting pro-China news/propaganda.

It was a quiet but nice little place. The admins running the instance would often be quick to reply and give you detailed answers whenever you needed them. Now many have their plate full with moderation actions and keeping their site up.

!Programmerhumor@lemmy.ml was one of the first communities to me that seemed based off a Reddit subreddit theme.

We knew the change winds were coming, slowly at first in May, then suddenly exploded after May 30th. Beehaw grew from 700 users to 14000 in less than two weeks (during the time the Reddit protest was being organized). That was a crazy change for Fediverse people, new people everywhere, minor trolls popping here and there, Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works being born, admins working overtime to accept new members. All very exciting.

Second half of June there was some trouble. Beehaw defederated because they couldn’t keep up with moderating users from instances with open signup processes (and I suspect it was triggered by a troll making a hateful post about his dick on the LGBTQ sub).

Then there was a torrent of accounts made on some instances that originally had one or two users. They had no comments or posts and had a username with a random word and a bunch of numbers. All of a sudden the instances with the “most users” were these completely inactive instances.

CAPTCHA was better implemented, and dbzero helped create a filter to monitor and defederate instances with hugely disproportionate number of accounts compared to activity.

There’s your mini-history lesson for Lemmy.

Absolutely. It’s nice a solid portion of the silly Redditness is relegated to Lemmy Shitpost and Meme communities.

I have other accounts on Lemmy but lemmy.world feels the most like Reddit imho. Check out some of the other, smaller instances, many have a different vibe and are more relaxed in pace owing from the smaller userbase.

My boy Lemmy is growing up!

Is an internet pirate community an internet pirate community without the odd patch of rough seas?

I dunno what kind of channels you wanted.

Just wanted to say that steve1989mreinfo is posting again!

The glasses might be making you see things strangely…

Found the answer.. Edited my comment to include it.

It is surprising. A month ago they were Canadian servers, @smorks@lemmy.ca moved it to lunanode (Canadian). Perhaps CDN was moved or the whole machine was moved to a cheaper hosting platform since it got very big from then and is under new admin management as of a week ago-ish.

Edit: found the answer from @Shadow@lemmy.ca, TL:DR is CloudFlare

Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.

Here’s a blurb from a doc I’m working on:

Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.

We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.