Fuck me, better do what they tell me!

oh my fucking god

By the time Black Sabbath are due on stage it’ll be past their bedtime.

Sometimes the nature of Lemmy means stumbling into places you aren’t familiar with and doing something silly. I would hope that most of these type comments are meant to engage with the community as new friends who missed the sidebar while looking at tasty food pics, but you never know.

I see. I’m confused as to why anyone would ever try to subscribe this way, but whatever I guess. At least it’s minor.

That’s strange. The links work normally for me from my VTC alt account and from WG.

That’s how I usually do it but I also used to eat them as just “bean sprouts” before I ever thought about letting them grow greens too lol. Lentils are awesome.

I see some lentils in there!

I’m going with Oscar mostly because I’m constantly finding weed bits all over myself. I also really enjoy the idea of the “grouch” toking away in his little hideaway while everyone thinks he’s angry.

Relevant Dave Chappelle-

https://youtu.be/aVW-FB1q8FM

L.W admins are not profiting, they work for very little money, as i understand.

This is every instance admin though. They don’t get a pass because they have a shitload of users. If anything the responsibility is even greater as one of the “flagship” instances. If they are unable to handle it then something needs to change.

They have troubles with the site and have been considering to drop it a few months ago.

I’m not really concerned with what the “official” excuses are as I find L.W staff to be untrustworthy. I haven’t seen them talk about shutting L.W down but that sounds like a scare tactic to me. My personal opinion is that the fediverse doesn’t need large instances in the first place though so I am obviously biased here.

My guess is that the protocol is heavy and since they have the largest instance there are bottlenecks.

Lemmy is a giant database that throws tantrums the more you add to it. As L.W is huge in terms of users and communities, I’m sure the demands on their hardware are very real. That doesn’t change the fact that it isn’t working correctly and sweeping genuine/good faith questions under the rug serves no purpose besides deception and ego protection.

Apologies if this isn’t the place for it but I feel it’s relevant to the OP-

I’ve been messing with WG off and on for months trying to sort out why it is that L.W won’t stay synced to all of our communities simultaneously. Nothing we’ve tried has ever worked for very long.

If L.W picks up posts from WG like it’s supposed to their comments/votes/etc don’t show up to WG until a day later, sometimes longer. Some of our communities update over there nearly instantly, others take awhile or have to be manually pulled over. Given that they are using an older version of Lemmy and have features in place that don’t match the rest of Lemmy it’s hard to know where the problem really lies. There isn’t much left to try on our end.

At this point there isn’t much we can do besides continuing to tune the database settings until something sticks or holding out hope that everything magically works again when L.W finally updates to a newer Lemmy build.

If others are having trouble too that seems like even more reason to continue to spread out across the fediverse instead of concentrating on a few large instances. As I’ve said before I don’t believe this is what the owners/admins/mods of L.W want. The longer time goes on the more it seems like they are actively working to hide their problems to keep a stranglehold on users.

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If we’re assuming it was a retaliation ban- The powers that be at lemmy.world would be wise to nip this type of thing in the bud now and replace those actively working to deceive and lash out at others from their team.

Eventually people will stop giving the owners/admins the benefit of the doubt when controversial things like this happen. What happens then? The time/money/resources are being thrown away to enable a few people’s egos and eventually the users will tire of it and abandon ship. It seems like we’re drawing closer to that every day.

One way or another the true colors will always come out. Interesting times ahead.

Fucking bone char god dammit all

Yeah. I jumped through all the common hoops (AFAIK) when I was first setting up the instance because I was undecided on what to do with it.

In the beginning I wasn’t sure if I wanted to deal with the hassle of users and instead just host communities and use it as a personal instance. Since then I’ve decided I’m ok with others joining as long as the numbers stay manageable, say 100-200 local users max, should it ever get to that point.

That way it should be large enough to foster local friendships and groups but not so large that we have users running unchecked through the fediverse causing problems. At least that’s the vision/goal.

It’s very small and there are only a few of us that actually use local accounts. I haven’t really advertised it or anything since it seemed like there were plenty of better options.

Now that it’s a little better established and things are going wild around Lemmy… Yeah. Probably a good time to start looking for like-minded people to get a friendly community going.

There should be room within instance rules to allow for respectful, good faith discussion.

You and whomever else are welcome to join WG if you want a smaller place to call home.

Your sweet potatoes are looking great!

Wow.

Wowowowow.

It looks delectable.