It seems like a tedious workflow, but the end result is quite good.

Interesting. What is tge reasoning behind only fetching the comments vs. a full fediverse integration?

I think counting fediverse users is about as difficult as counting e-mail adresses.

If you vote, post or comment, you count as active user.

Lemmy alone has about 50k active users.

Source: Join Lemmy

IMO, sticking to manual processes that are error-prone is a waste of money and not a sign of a honest business.

Letsencrypt issues wildcard certificates. This is however more complicated to setup.

AFAIK, the only reason not to use Letsencrypt are when you are not able to automate the process to change the certificate.

As the paid certificates are valid for 12 month, you have to change them less often than a letsencrypt certificate.

At work, we pay something like 30-50€ for a certificate for a year. As changing certificates costs, it is more economical to buy a certificate.

But generally, it is best to use letsencrypt when you can automate the process (e.g. with nginx).

As for the question of trust: The process of issuing certificates is done in a way that the certificate authority never has access to your private key. You don’t trust the CA with anything (except your payment data maybe).

My guess is that it’s not possible (yet) to follow from lemmy. However, you can follow and interact from Mastodon.

At least I personally have not seen any issues in this current release.

Given how long it took to fix the federation issues back in december (0.19 update), I’d be hesitant about updating, too.

If a post is interesting enough to write a comment, it also deserves an upvote.

Lotide is

A federated forum / link aggregator using ActivityPub.

It looks very basic compared to lemmy/mbin.

There are four lotide servers still federated:

https://fedidb.org/software/lotide

It’s still magic to me that my comment here can be retrieved by a lotide server: https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/137949

Never use SMR drives for a RAID setup. But outside of RAID, they’re probably fine.

The approach could be to use the lemmy server software and a custom UI, not a whole new server-side project like kbin/mbin.

Examples:

• Photon
• Alexandrite
• Next

Ryzen 2000 and 3000 are still fairly recent and were announced 5-6 years ago.

Opens only in browser, not in lemmy itself

Seems like there is no way to interact from lemmy or mbin

If I read this article correctly, then all of euope donates about €150 million per year to policical parties.

Kamala received $ 300 million only in july.

There is literally an order of magnitude between the donations in the EU and the US.

From a european point of view, donating to a political campaign is nothing we would even consider. Additionally, we are not even allowed to donate if we wanted.

This makes this whole post relevant to less than 5% of the world’s population.