Discuss.online is pretty awesome. 🤓

Thanks so much!

Thanks, yes. I have been considering this for some time now but I have not had the time to decide on it or take action on a decision.

Thanks a lot! I’m exciting to get getting back into focusing on it :)

Thanks for your patience with Sublinks! I’m planning to increase contributions again very shortly.

Yeah, I am for now. However, if I lost my job or something major happened I’m not sure I’d be able to keep paying for it all. I should probably do better at fund raising. 🤔

Thanks!

I should add that there is almost exclusively cost to being an admin. For example, I pay around $5000/year to host demo.sublinks.org, discuss.online, matrix.discuss.online, social.photo, and utter.online. I take in a negligible amount of donations. Plus, I spend a lot of time moderating content and maintaining infrastructure.

Neat! Bought it!

Perhaps it’s your client or the server acting funny. Here are direct links to the open rooms:

• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-development-api:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-off-topic:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-development:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-development-federation:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-announcements:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-support:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-git:discuss.online

It’s not dead, perhaps you joined at a slow time. We were just chatting a bunch in there about cursor pagination. There are several rooms if you didn’t notice. General, Frontend, API, & Federation. Along with Announcements and Support.

I’m the founder of Sublinks. I’m happy to answer questions. You can find me on Mastodon @sublinks@utter.online. You’re right about the dev blog. We have a weekly Sublinks team meeting, the results of that could go into a weekly dev update. I’ve just been more focused on coding than community stuff. I’ll do better.

We had a lot of debate about the license. I’m curious if you can argue why MIT is wrong and why we should use AGPL. AGPL was the original plan, but I was convinced to change it to MIT by @lazyguru@discuss.online.

Thanks @gabe@literature.cafe! https://social.photo. I just opened registration so it’s still very young. I am running Lemmy on https://discuss.online, Mastodon on https://utter.online and Pixelfed on https://social.photo. I also run a matrix instance on the same discuss.online domain.

I’m based in Ohio, US; however, the servers are in New York on DigitalOcean. That’s really close to Canada :).

I’m trying to build an ecosystem under the https://participating.online brand. I don’t plan on going anywhere.

In fact, I had planned to build something many years ago and I’ll probably start on it now. It will provide a unique experience once it’s done in a several months. I’m working on some other stuff first… like myself.

Yes, I’ve just been into this idea for a while. I thought about building something like Lemmy about 10 years ago, but everyone said I was crazy to think people would do it. It’s here now, and I want it to grow and be trusted. The only way to do that is to build trusted instances. I took it upon myself to make that happen or at least contribute to it happening.

I prefer the smaller communities. It feels less like shouting into a void.

Yes, when I started talking to other admins that’s when I realized how over prepared I was compared to them.

That’s what made me decide to do the downgrade. I might do it again at some point.

Yeah, you can change that on your profile settings. But it’s not automatic, which is weird.

It was already in a spiral. I think some people are mores sensitive to the gravity of it.

I had many discussions with Mods when working out the plan for SocialCare.cloud. I never knew what was involved. I even suggested adding a tip jar to each community to help compensate the mods. I was told that was a terrible idea. After further discussion, it seems to be true. Perhaps a more general shared fund would be better.

I see. My server instance is at 5% CPU and 15% memory usage. However, my managed DB instance is constantly near 80%. I’m thinking about moving the database over to the same server and managing my own backups. It’s seems much more DB heavy now.