I understand the reasoning but I think it’s not the same situation as lemmygrad, which I feel is a normal instance with an ideological bent.

Lemmy grad actively denies Genocides. Lemmygrad says that that Tienanmen Square was fabricated by the U.S.

Lemmygrad consistently host antiwhite racism and then defends it by saying something like it’s not racist because white people aren’t real or something

Exploding-heads will poke fun at gender dysphoria in two communities, dank memes and dank taco.

EH is morally superior to lemmygrad in every way.

Finally,

You all should be using nostr where admins can’t take your voice away or your right to hear opposing opinions.

Sounds like they keep trying to shove blockchains in there. And that is completely unnecessary. Just use private keys like nostr.

I got a buddy in the business of extracting oil. Making 500k this year because of high prices. And he’s tech support.

We used to fill manholes with card board , then pore lighter fluid and drop matches. Could have ended badly in retrospect

I can never get that community to work right.

Doesn’t it balloon in size quickly?

I vote we open up a nostr chat room. Hosting a matrix server is hard. A relay is super simple.

30 jobs at 19 isn’t to bad. Keep going. Actually never stop. You can take a couple days a week to try out manual labor. A few times I would wait for work with all the mexicans at 5 AM. Some guy in a truck would come pick us up to do odd jobs. You can also just work minimum wage and keep applying. You can also go to another country and teach english.

You want one? What would you want it to do? Why does it need to be a app and not a website? Just upload images? On the one hand catbox cost 1200$ month to host. I’m not going to pay for that. On the other hand, pretty sure I could just point the app to someone else’s host like https://nostr.build or even catbox.moe But then again you could just use https://nostr.build or catbox.moe the url.

Both of these are like one button so I could build a app to do it in like a day. Would be probably minutes if I built android apps often.

Migration to nostr would be good, but the current state of it isn’t perfect and is not ready to use with communities and use it like we are using EH rn.

Totally agree. Should be more like a backup right now. It’s probably atleast a year away maybe two from being a decent competitor. It will happen though.

I don’t support the usage of Cloudflare. We give too much control over all the data to it. It also doesn’t protect agains not powerful enough hardware.

Fair enough.

I talke with Kapow briefly about it. Honestly hard to reply because when I click post we are under attack. I get board waiting and go do something else. We’ve been looking into migrating to nostr. I would say the nostr ecosystem isn’t ready yet. zapddit.com with nos2x-fox on desktop plus Amethyst for phone isn’t terrible. flycat.club is quirky and fun but really slow with communities. I get lots of javascript framework garbage errors running it locally. I like it’s old looking interface though.

I suggest we get a relay up or two and try to get people to make nostr accounts so we can communicate when Exploding-heads is down. We can put our public keys in our profile for easy visibility. and maybe a list of relays we like to use.

I can totally host a relay on like wss://relay.wolfballs.com. I would prefer to keep it to only this tribe of people if possible.

I can also look into hosting a mostr bridge to get all these post pushed to nostr relays. That SHOULD already work. These both would take very little time commitment on my part.

Nostr is nice because if our relays are down you can just send to a bunch of other ones. People can still find you.

Really hard to ddos everyone.

When election season comes around I imagine ddos attacks will pick up. I think these attacks aren’t really politically motivated and likely people just playing and learning what is effective against lemmy instances. Also possibly a uptick in bots scanning lemmy instances because they are more popular. AI training bots and otherwise.

Honestly I think cloud fare would work fine for EH. I doubt they would take it down for speech issues.

If we need to pay for it we can do some crowd funding. I sent kapow a little etherium (I’ve been using this site lately so worth it) and if like 5 people did it could fund a few months it can’t be that expensive.

No never heard of it. Tea derived? Tea makes me stay awake all night. Also angry. Like really angry. I can basically chug coffee all day but probably because I’m so used it it.

Jogging helps during detox. If nothing else it gets your mind off it for 30 minutes.

I currently drink about 400mg of caffeine a day and need to ween off it.

It’s weird, I had this one chick feel bad I never sent her dick pics.

All her friends were complaining to her about all the dick pics they got.

She felt left out. Lol. I guess never assume you know what a woman wants. Even she doesn’t know.

My mom always told me I was part Indian. I took a DNA test and am zero indian. Almost completely Scandinavian. With a little Irish English mixed in.

Lemmy world was getting attacked too

Most the Lemmy sites have been getting ddos attacks pretty bad.

Has anyone hosted one on a phone? I have a old pinephone collecting dust it would be funny to just make it into a lemmy instance.

I would just take a break and come back in like a year. I’ve found a good couple accounts that don’t talk about bitcoin and follow those.

There really is no moderation tools as of yet. People in the future should be able to just blanket ignore all crypto conversations. The global all feed is just a mess. We need to have relays dedicated to specific topics and a option to browse relay groups, plus community support will help a bunch.