Wintermute

Another vote for Synology here. I have 2 RT2600 and 1 RT1600 between myself and my parents houses. They have been completely bullet proof and the oldest one is going on 7 years old now.

If I read the announcement correctly, that is implemented by a bot with mod privileges that parses comments and takes actions on users’ behalf. I don’t think it’s practical to literally make every user a moderator.

I wish we could leave cynical takes like this back on Reddit. They don’t add anything of value to the conversation.

For Lemmy in particular I would suggest joining the Matrix chat. There’s quite a lot of activity related to working out and reporting issues that happens there.

This only proves that you can’t unilaterally migrate a subreddit. That instance currently has ~250 users. I don’t know how active the subs it represents were, but surely they had at least an order of magnitude more active users than that?

Even with in-video ads, those must be paid based on historical (or actual?) view counts right? No matter how big you are, there’s no way you’re going to maintain view counts when switching away from YouTube.

I think GP is saying the the total income from Premium doesn’t cover the cost of running all of Youtube, not that a single premium subscription doesn’t cover that one user’s costs, which it obviously does (or the people running YouTube are truly idiots).

I would suggest joining us on the Lemmy matrix space, particularly the “Lemmy Instance Admin” channel. It’s much easier to help in semi-real time.

Yeah, after I got my lemmy and matrix servers up and running I started looking at doing mail myself… The rabbit hole just kept getting deeper and darker, and MTAs seems to have stopped evolving in the 90s so I gave up. Email for my lemmy instance is now handled by Google. I’ve always used on of the big players (currently Outlook because I got a good username when they opened up the outlook.com domain) for my personal email.

Yeah, 1gb is definitely near the lower limit.

Currently a 1CPU/2GB RAM Linode instance for 26 users. Linode’s pricing gets insane as you scale up though so I will definitely be looking elsewhere if I need to scale much bigger. I think I could get away with 1gb of RAM at half the cost right now, but I’m also hosting a Matrix homeserver on this VPS and Synapse is a hungy boy.

I would like to try one, but I have yet to see one that comes at a price that’s even remotely tied to reality. If anyone can recommend a split keyboard (assembled, not a kit) that I can buy for under $200 I would be all over it.

Lemmy, mostly :D. I also recently started up my own Matrix home server. I took a stab at email, but it was more trouble than it’s worth considering my relatively newly acquired cloud hosting IP is on several blacklists. Now that I actually have a server running again Gitea might be next on the list of services that gets added.

Looking at my own very small instance, Lemmy doesn’t seem to consider “logged in” as active. I currently have 8 users online and 3 users/month.

I think this is right, but there is a bit of a confounding factor in that mods and power users of reddit are disproportionately likely to jump ship IMO. So while the masses might still show up to reddit, it’s entirely possible that the quality of the content will take a nosedive anyway. I’m not really sure how much of a difference that makes. I suspect not enough of one to kill reddit off completely, but I do think there’s a good chance that it’s enough to get Lemmy off the ground and viable. I think we probably only need to see 1% or maybe even fewer users migrate here from reddit to make Lemmy active enough that I never have any reason to go back to reddit again.

Is there an English translation available? That’s a hell of a departure from international copyright agreements that I wasn’t aware of if it’s true.

What “law” says that? That’s not how copyright works at all. If you don’t have an explicit license to use content you don’t own, you can’t legally use it.

It’s quite the opposite at this point. Reddit isn’t really in control anymore. Rather, something drastic would have to happen to Lemmy to cause me to leave. Reddit is no longer the default choice.

If you had asked me how many employees Reddit has, I definitely would have guessed a number between 30 and 60 total. What on Earth do all of these people do??