Bro.

Was that gay? Or, are you wearing socks.

lmao, literally offered you all the same thing.

on better hardware, in a more secure environment.

Didn’t get a response.

I ain’t got nothin better to do so might as well run a server forever

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

you should see how many of these big servers were (and still are) running their instances as ‘root’…

I specifically stopped trying to grow my instance to focus on security and sysadmin back-end administrative infrastructure.

Although participation will always be somewhat unequal, there are ways to better equalize it, including:

• Make it easier to contribute. The lower the barrier, the more people will jump through the hoop. For example, Netflix lets users rate movies by clicking a star rating, which is much easier than writing a natural-language review.
• Make participation a side effect. Even better, let users participate with zero effort by making their contributions a side effect of something else they’re doing. For example, Amazon’s “people who bought this book, bought these other books” recommendations are a side effect of people buying books. You don’t have to do anything special to have your book preferences entered into the system. Will Hill coined the term read wear for this type of effect: the simple activity of reading (or using) something will “wear” it down and thus leave its marks — just like a cookbook will automatically fall open to the recipe you prepare the most.
• Edit, don’t create. Let users build their contributions by modifying existing templates rather than creating complete entities from scratch. Editing a template is more enticing and has a gentler learning curve than facing the horror of a blank page. In avatar-based systems like Second Life, for example, most users modify standard-issue avatars rather than create their own.
• Reward — but don’t over-reward — participants. Rewarding people for contributing will help motivate users who have lives outside the Internet, and thus will broaden your participant base. Although money is always good, you can also give contributors preferential treatment (such as discounts or advance notice of new stuff), or even just put gold stars on their profiles. But don’t give too much to the most active participants, or you’ll simply encourage them to dominate the system even more.
• Promote quality contributors. If you display all contributions equally, then people who post only when they have something important to say will be drowned out by the torrent of material from the hyperactive 1%. Instead, give extra prominence to good contributions and to contributions from people who’ve proven their value, as indicated by their reputation ranking.

Your website’s design undoubtedly influences participation inequality for better or worse. Being aware of the problem is the first step to alleviating it, and finding ways to broaden participation will become even more important as the web’s social networking services continue to grow.

Holy shit, this study is as old as my car.

or… lemmy hates .gifs?

idk ugh.

ya know, it’s not hard to setup a totally independent instance on the same hypervisor as another.

I have servers, you have people, we could make independent lemmy instances on my two Dell R720xd and one Dell R730xd servers. They’re not overloaded with people like lemmy.world yet, that would put way way more stress on that server.

Oh you sonofabitch why’d you do that to me.

sigh give me a couple days or so lmao.

Holy shit, I’ve been looking for someone to do this server side instead of a browser script.

If that is on github/codeburg/whatever… its gonna happen.

Ooooh that’s a good idea when doing those though the command line. Wonder if there’s a way to do something similar with Proxmox at the VM snapshot level

💯 email verification is off for this box, which kinda sketches me out… But, privacy is way more important then the reasons i’m sketched out by that. Assuming that negativity doesn’t spill over here… (Narrator: “It will.”)

I’m sure It’s just a matter of time before a couple usernames make me question that we’re only defederated from/blocking Meta’s Threads (Fuck the Zuck) and Lemmygrad.ml/.com

I’m trying! I setup this thing lol.

I need a little bit of time away from a computer between this and work lol

wooo fixed some errors!

That’s what this Dell PowerEdge I’m posting on is for

ah ha! figured out the admin part. I missed that button somehow.

It’s all about those fucking advertisements the official app is plagued with.

Gotta get that $$$$$

*and why links REALLY can’t be posted to vendors by users or posts w/individual to individual trades on Reddit. They want to charge for that stuff eventually I’m sure.

💯 sounds good to me. Comment in a few or make a post, then I can login w/that bot account that made them from the import and tag you as a mod. I can’t do it w/this account even though it’s full admin just cause it didn’t create the community. Also can’t make this one show as an admin w/the bot and that’s odd… anyway… we just need a kick start on things, hopefully it all takes off and grows organically from there.

With as long as i’ve been in IT and have done front facing customer service stuffs, I absolutely should take care of servers instead of people now lol. I try to recognize that at least.