Even on reddit, there are two general buckets of forum style user: those who make it an identity, and those who rotate accounts and remain anonymous.(1) Piefed tends to favor the former and Lemmy the latter based on the feature matrix presented. I use Mastodon for the former. I still read reddit for my game and the news coverage is better (I have a multireddit of all the news subreddits, something Lemmy can't do yet).(2)

(1) these tend to trend with the type of content as I consume both; the former seems to be much more engaged in posting real world news, blog articles and the like, whereas the latter tend to enjoy the comics, memes, jokes and other lighthearted content. Hence mastodon is the serious place and lemmy is the fun comic place in my life. Piefed would be the serious version of Lemmy I guess? shrug

(2) aside, I don't like the Piefed webUI so beyond testing accounts with it, do not spend a lot of time using it. I like the Lemmy webUI much, much better and it's what I use a lot of the time. I've heard it can do something like mulitreddits but, well...

Yours and the other combined, "yeah well I was ugly before I got in this cab what's YOUR passenger's excuse?!" and just throw hands. channel your inner Steve Buscemi

No because they don't scream 🙀

!subscribe #electronmicroscopefacts

See here's the thing - the mascot and URL are serving their purpose to deter the software author's outsiders. They don't want your business, it is a social signal being sent and the reception from your coworker? - did it's job.

My comment was specifically about these round concave cardboard things - they, their shape and composition, is some weird magnet to the cats. It's unlike a traditional post, there's something in their brain that likes these things and they calm down after scratching and curl up in them. I've found them in various shapes and depths at Ross, the cats rotate from one to another as sleeping spots and all that cat juju. Here's a random pic: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bPWIbZPwL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

One thing I've found to work is keeping a string (hoodie cord work great just snip the ends off) coiled up on the desk. They walk in wanting attention and you toss an end at them etc. and they rawr and attack. See if that's what the lil guy wants.

I've also had tremendous luck with the circular cardboard "dish" shaped (concave) scratchers, a modern take on the classic cardboard scratcher. Somehow the act of scratching it then curling up for a nap in it appeals to the cats. Both are snoozing in them as I type 😺

It sounds good but in practice it doesn't work out; laptops sleep, people put their phones on airplane at night, whatever happens in life. The "best" solutions use some sort of cache-and-forward relay (thinking like DeltaChat relays, or I hear SimpleX is adding them) but I think most end up looking at Snikket (xmpp) or Matrix for the group management etc. on a central server. The Disroot group uses "Movim" which is XMPP highly customized to a social experience.

I use DeltaChat with friends and there's a lot of things you can't do because it's essentially P2P with caching relays - like Jami, all control and data is stored on the device(s). If all you're looking for is a Signal replacement it's great (and why we use it), but if you want good group social controls you gotta go the central server route.

I think Jami here could do with caching relays like Delta has, could move this project to the next level.

There are already instances doing this (and Mastodon ones as well), it's a thing - there are warehousing no-user instances[1] But they could be blocked! We can't have that, luckily...

...the Lemmy API and RSS feeds have no authorization around them for consuming the firehose of data; if I were a person doing this data gathering, I'd just passively monitor the firehoses off the top instances from random rotating IPs. Could and is most likely happening right now, can't block them.

[1] I personally wrote a simple script which uses the fediverse observer info, grabs the XX most popular communities and builds a subscription import file to bootstrap a new Lemmy instance. wasn't hard, just some curl and jq work.

Put HE (dns.he.net) in your back pocket - they run a free DNS service which includes slave (do we still call it that?) service so that you can add their resolver as an ultimate failover / failback if your self hosted DNS takes a dive for whatever reason things break in our world.

Generally, hosting your own DNS "should" mean having a primary and secondary on separate AS networks, or at least different provider routes or locations. But if you're doing all this from home, where is the second location for DR purposes... exactly? I sure don't have one, power goes out here everything goes dark - in the old days everyone used to do this (share out tertiary DNS to each other) but it's become a thing of the past in today's world. HE can help fill that gap.

To your point - I use Gcore DNS and Bunny DNS for my stuff, as I mainly use online VPSes and don't run racks of hardware at the house. The only things I physically selfhost at home are a pair of old laptops acting as storage servers which backup all my bytes and bits from online to some SSDs.