Salamander

Best of luck raising funds! 👍 Pinned for extra visibility.

I just noticed that featuring will only pin to “All” and not “Local”. It is helpful to cross-post to a local community to pin it more visibly.

Amazing work! Thanks a lot!! Took me a few days to get to it but I have upgraded now and it looks great 😄

Awesome job! Thanks again! Upgraded without issue 🤘🏼

You are awesome! Thanks :D I hope you get to relax this weekend!!

Thank you for your hard work!!

I appreciate that you going through this test period. I hope it all goes smoothly and that at least a few hairs remain on your heads by the end of this week. Good luck!

I have been running an instance without a slur filter for about a year and a half. It is not a big instance, but big enough to have some experience in the field.

In case you are curious, 100% of the many times that I have encountered the n-word in my instance it has been in the context of a very banable offense, and it often requires spending some effort investigating and purging images from the database. The slur filter would block many these federated posts and comments from reaching my instance without the troll/spammer getting any feedback about this.

The filter can be a useful practical tool. The reason I keep it off is because I’m stubborn about not policing the words that people can and can’t say. But when I consider what I have experienced and reflect about this, I become more and more skeptical about my choice. The problem is still manageable for my small instance, so I can keep the slur filter off. But I can see that when dealing with this problem at a much larger scale one would want to use any tool at their disposal to make the job easier.

Cool. Thank you for doing this!

Really cool! I’m excited to learn more about you and the project!

What’s the format? Should we submit questions beforehand, or will you process questions that arrive at the start time? I’ve never participated in an AMA 😅

Upgraded! No issues.

Again, thank you for your amazing work!! :D

My view is: I don’t like this cultural element, and I am glad that I live in a country without it. But if I am a visitor from abroad I would not resist the local culture and try to impose my own values. If I am aware of this cultural element and I dislike it, my options would be to either avoid restaurants and other tipping situations as much as I can, or simply account for the tip when making my financial decisions, and pay it.

If I live in the country then it is different, because then I am more entitled to be a driver of change. Personally, my approach would be to support businesses with explicit no-tipping policy, and to refuse receiving tips myself.

I can see them from the computer browser and my phone’s browser (image below), not from Jerboa. At the moment I can only see emojis from my instance, but maybe as other instances add their own images they will become visible too.

In the admin settings there is a tab that allows admins to add an icon. So far I added :lemmy_hearts: and :mander: to test. I am posting from Jerboa now and the custom icons did not get invoked. I don’t know yet if you can also invoke them from a different instance.

What I did notice is that the icon gets fixed to a size that is bigger than a normal icon, and the upload button doesn’t seem to be working - i had to feed the form the direct url to an image.

What do you mean? What is being used?

Wuhuu! Thank you and congratulations!!

I think that you can add captions to images, like this:

![image caption](image url)

I wonder whether these tools would identify and read out the caption.

• The comment thread began with a user in lemmy.world, and the instance was defederated from beehaw, so that comment and sub-comments were not fetched
• The ‘comment ID’ is not shared by different instances, so each instance will assign every comment its own ID.
• If you want to fetch the comment from a third instance, you would need to click the colorful ‘fedisymbol’ to get the original link, which is the one from the instance that the original user lives in.

Thank you for providing me such a nice summary!

I wonder if, despite their public failure, the owners of these platforms somehow manage to make a good profit behind the scenes. If not, I am curious about why history would repeat itself in this way.

Cool! I like them a lot too

This is what I think, but if anyone understands it differently please correct me.

Vertical scalability refers to scaling within a single instance. More users join and they post more content, increasing the amount of disk space needed to hold that memory, network bandwidth to handle many users downloading comments and images at once, and processing power.

Horizontal scaling refers to the lemmyverse growing because of the addition of new instances. The problem in this form of scaling is due to the resources that an instance has to use due to its interactions with other instances. So, you may create a small instance without a lot of users, but the instance might still need a lot of resources if it attempts to retrieve a lot of information (posts, comments, user information, etc) from the other larger instances. For example, at some point a community in lemmy.ml might be so popular that subscribing to that community from a small instance would be too much of a burden on the smaller instance because of the amount of memory required to save the constant stream of new posts. The horizontal scaling is a problem when the lemmyverse becomes so large that a machine with only a small amount of resources is no longer able to be part of the lemmyverse because its memory gets filled up in a few hours or days.