A lil above $16 per year is insanely cheap. My current shoes are on their fourth year and not falling apart anytime soon, but I can’t expect to beat that value. If the boots are good on your feet and last 4 years of hard use, $65 is a miracle bargain.

Those ai generated plants and hallway wall things bother me a bit.

At that price point, something used and not particularly recent. Even an old laptop will be good performance-wise, but not necessarily storage-wise.

However, buying a laptop to run at home might not be the most reliable or economical way to host Lemmy: you can rent a virtual server for not much, provided that you have access to a computer to remotely access the server with.

I have zero experience with YunoHost, so I don’t know how that may or may not limit the options. Probably the most common way is to use Lemmy-Ansible. It’s easy (well, relatively speaking) and is maintained by the actual lemmy devs themselves. Managed services (ones where you don’t have to deal with the server) should also exist for lemmy, but I’ve never used them.

This sounded off, so I checked the docs.

…downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

Intentionally blurring the line between ads and user posts. Same stuff as always.

It promotes downvoted posts?

As much as I wish votes could be private, obfuscating them would make troll instances harder to notice. I think I hate it the most that the current model gives the illusion of being private, when it isn’t.

They aren’t shown to users, no, but because votes are federated, they’re freely accessible to anyone willing to put in some effort. Set up a server and you’ll get access to the data.

I watched this in theater. It was very late and there was only one other group of people. During the film one of them loudly said something like “what the fuck is this shit” and they walked out pretty early.

I guess it’s not for everyone.

Classic, but I’m more of a Con Air man myself

You’re god damn right with that opinion

You’d have a hard time finding a company that would just give you access to a vps or managed instance for free. Running a server always costs someone money.

Not every judgmental asshole who hates the world is french.

Okay, I’ll try again.

The b is lower case so it sould be bits.

Romanticizing “past greatness” seems to always involve some very shit politics. It’s more obvious in these old empires, but it exists in more subtle forms elsewhere, too.

I was specifically talking about euros, but I guess a certain US president gets a honourable mention for his campaign slogan

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I censored the url.

It’s a fake website

Figured as much. So it’s ad spamming that they’re going for.