I just want to say thank you for your take. I’m not smart enough to intelligently discuss these issues, but it pleases me greatly to see great minds thinking hard about Lemmy.

It took me a while to find an instance that I liked. I’m sure I counted as multiple active users until recently.

In reality, I’m the same one human who has been accessing the same servers.

I’ve had instances where I worked with an API so badly designed in a dynamic language that I had no idea what I might receive.

This, when I get something back that’s not what I expected, I just logged the type because I really don’t know what it is. It’s the result. Whatever that means.

In my defense, that was supposed to be a temporary fix, sir!

Remember to take care of yourself. Just because you have an idea doesn’t mean you have to test it right this second. You need breaks.

Did you mean to include a picture?

EDIT: Apparently it can take a minute or two.

I’ve had this conversation:

We need to increase our velocity! Has the customer told us yet what they would like us to build?

I also found that record, but I have no way of knowing how accurate it is. I can confirm that it isn’t responding. We might have to wait and see if/when it returns.

The server isn’t malfunctioning. Rather, the name vlemmy.net isn’t given you the IP address of the server anymore. Does anyone have the IP? We could test if the server is still there.

Porkbun LLC is a DNS registrar, so maybe somebody didn’t pay their bill?

The data for the communities is stored on that server, so yes, but only for the content that was actually posted there. Any posts you made from that account will continue to exist on outside communities.

Hopefully, it’s just a temporary failure.

Make that a logical or. These attributes are definitely not mutually exclusive.

Reference: me.

Then something terrible happens. It works, underscoring your lack of understanding.

🔌

When people comment that having multiple communities fragmented over the fediverse is bad, I think back to this concept. We aren’t built to handle the scope of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of people under one roof. We are socially constructed for small groups of people–tribes, and the fediverse emulates that more closely where it is decentralized.

I don’t mind if there’s N Android communities if it means that when I ask a question, it’s going to be seen, and people are willing to answer.

Quite literally by the hour I see app updates come in to pave over issues while at the same time developers are working directly with the big instance owners.

If that’s not a labor of love for a platform you care about I don’t know what is.

I’m not sure this will continue to be the case indefinitely. Those features were added to help stem the tide of bots.

Bots are going to be a problem for any pseudonymous online community. I think Lemmy is simply too new to face the hordes of bots that occupy Reddit, but they will come.