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mrmanager

@ mrmanager @lemmy.today

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Long time linux user and tinkerer. Currently working as a devops engineer. Very positive to the idea of decentralized internet platforms. :)

  • Just a reminder we are the future of social media.

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  • You can rent an instance for like 10 dollars per month and grow from there. Then expand if you get users and things get slow. Lemmy runs ok on 4 GB of memory but it's better with 8 GB. Postgres use the most.

  • Just a reminder we are the future of social media.

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  • It's what we all loved about the internet I think, before the web become... "that" (looking at the pile of shit the web has become).

    But actually it's not the web, not really. It's the big tech platforms that most people seem to think is the internet now. It's sad to watch how people log on to "Facebook" and not the general web anymore. And then Google in front of everything, like a big cancer growth.

    Lemmy is not the new internet either I believe. But it's here to show people that something else can exist. As soon as we let advertising in here though, it's over.

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  • I think eventually, some people will be OK with paying 5 dollars per month for a YouTube competitor that is better than the original. Much like Kagi is doing for search engines. It won't be for the majority since they still expect free stuff and no ads, which doesn't work.

  • Takeaways from AP report on how the search for the coronavirus origins turned toxic

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  • This is like asking the burglar to investigate his own crime in a way, isn't it?

    I don't know what happened with the virus of course, but trusting what US intelligence agencies are saying, isn't that a bit gullible?

  • The Fuckening

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  • Lol :)

  • I wish I was a cat. No school, no work. just meow meow

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  • Cats are easily the best looking being on the planet.

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  • I've been there a few times, but will log in more and catch up. :)

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  • In all for trying it. Will enable it tomorrow then. Thanks!

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  • Thank you, it does make sense. We will enable it tomorrow. This thread changed my mind. :)

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  • Yeah it makes sense. After reading all the arguments here, I guess if it helps to slow down spammers, it's a good idea. Let's do it. :)

    I will enable it tomorrow and I would be very grateful for some extra admin help. I will contact you tomorrow. :)

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  • Yeah I didnt see this until now. Thanks!

    There has been a huge wave of spam accounts recently, and I recognize some of the names on this list. Of course these accounts gets banned quickly.

    Getting a fake email address is really easy, so I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever. On fastmail which im using, I can even create fake ones with a click on a button. It's built into the service to have different emails for different sites.

    Having closed signups will not stop any spam accounts. It just adds a delay between registration and being able to log in. There is no way to know if it's a spam account or not before they sign in. Of course, some of the names in the list makes it obvious, but they just change to ordinary sounding names then.

    I think it's frustrating for new users to have to wait for a random time period to get accepted, specially when it serves no purpose. I'm not going to be any wiser if I approve the registration now or 12 hours later.

    Or am I wrong? I haven't been a troll myself but seems like I would just spend 30 mins to make accounts in random instances and then fire off my bot a few hours later or on the day after.

    How do you know which accounts are spam accounts before they even started posting?

    If the spammers and trolls manage to make you defederate from Lemmy.today, they will pick another instance. And every defederation will continue to make the fediverse smaller and more centralized. Sooner or later, small instances may even stop accepting new users for fear of being defederated from the larger network.

    I would like to stop having these spam accounts and trolls on the instance. I could add email verification but it won't make a difference and just make it more annoying for new users. I really don't want to punish them for what trolls and spammers are doing.

    But sure, I prefer it to defederation. So if you think it makes a difference, I could add it just as a sign of good faith. But it's really a pointless gesture.

  • Women Should Just Be Honest

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  • Of course. Not all women will do this. Your wife doesn't do it, that's great. But we all have different experiences in life. Everyone gets treated differently. So all these discussions are is about our subjective experiences.

  • Women Should Just Be Honest

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  • One thing women does that men don't... Is that they remember every single time you did something dumb, and they will use that as ammunition in every fight.

  • The world has become Applefied.

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  • Humanity slowly goes insane... :)

  • The world has become Applefied.

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  • The world is not McDonald's though. But yes, there is a trend towards sterile clean environments with muted colors.

  • Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

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  • I'm wondering about her reason for not using one too. What is the advantage?

    She thinks the web can't exist without ads? It can, because it did once.

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  • Just another reason to not have a YouTube account. If you use Newpipe, you can subscribe to feeds anyway without any YouTube account.

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    Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, prison service says

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  • I hope there is eternal hell for people like Putin. Few deserve it like he does.

  • Fuck Facists, never again

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  • Kind of obvious how it works isn't it? You become hateful as you fight evil, and you become more and more accepting of cruelty as long as it's to the enemy. Happens in wars all the time.