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TIL: The maximum length of a domain name is 253 characters, and each label (`.` separated part) can only be 63 characters, and this is consistent regardless of whether you use punycode or not.  @thisismissem@hachyderm.io Can y'all imagine what the #Fediverse would be like if the projects had the kind of funding to enable this scale of development? Like, the #Fediverse probably has only like a dozen or two dozen core developers, max. Everyone else is just a casual volunteer contributor.  So, in some fantastic news, I've just passed my initial goal of β¬200 in monthly donations to my Ko-Fi! π Many thanks to the 10 people who kindly donate on a monthly basis to my support my work on the fediverse. Shout out to @Daily_Twerk for being tenth subscriber who pushed me past that goal! Next goal is β¬500 / month in recurring donations! @thisismissem@hachyderm.io Currently only have enough money to maybe see me through to the end of month. Please do consider becoming a sponsor of my work on fediverse software and trust & safety tooling on my Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thisismissem For context, at β¬20/month, I'd only need 250 people supporting me to make my work financially sustainable. At β¬10/month, it's 500 people. That's really not that much to contribute on a monthly basis! (I need net income of β¬3000/month, but have to factor in freelance taxes & health insurance which adds β¬1-2k)  The Fediverse has a Mental Health problem: https://medium.com/@thisismissem/the-fediverse-has-a-mental-health-problem-4cb4845dfee1 (Please do not reply directly to this post, use the hashtag #FediverseMentalHealth instead, thanks!)  @Emelia πΈπ» Would be great to read this on a personal website rather than a writer-exploiting closed-off media as medium.com... no pun intended :)
Just added this edit to that article after a walk and some food. In some ways, I don't think this should need to be said, but also, I think really does need to be said. Please don't @ me, I promise I'm not attacking you. If you do think/feel that this could be about you, maybe just quietly commit to doing better? Keep me working on the Fediverse! https://ko-fi.com/thisismissem/goal?g=4 I'll have a piece written soon that'll explain all the different things I'm working on, as a lot of it isn't necessarily visible to most people. What's something that's brought you joy on the #fediverse recently? Particularly instance admins and moderators? I feel like this has been a hard week in many regards, so let's share some good things!
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 @thisismissem my documentation helped another admin get their Digital Ocean Spaces working So my good #Fediverse thing for this week was having a kinda crazy idea and being like "what if...?" and then @trwnh and @steve (i think that's him) helping me investigate & explore this idea's viability, and it turns out it's not entirely crazy and it may actually be a very good idea. That was nice, I learned a lot. Also nice was getting feedback from the @Mastodon team on some work that had been in flight for a while. @thisismissem anything related to #BloomScrolling I love the fact that I can subscribe to a hashtag and have a constant flow of beauty in my feed. I know next to nothing about flowers, but there's something rejuvenating about them. Okay, so, I've just done a review of the #moderation features in both #Lemmy and #kbin, thanks to @stux and @ruud I've written up a fuller report on the IFTAS matrix, but the tl;dr is: if you care about user safety, do not deploy either of these. They do not feature comprehensive or well built moderation tools, and you will not be able to effectively moderate instances running this software. You are better off waiting to deploy these once they mature more. Like, if you're totally fine with not being able to effectively moderate a server you operate, then by all means, test out #kbin and #lemmy, but encouraging folks to use either en-mass as if they're anywhere near the calibre of Mastodon or Pixelfed* then you're in for a very very bad time. Alpha software does need alpha users to test and provide feedback, but we should be VERY careful recommending alpha software to mainstream massive audiences as an alternative to $centralisedPlatform.  What totally infuriating scammy bullshit is this!! The github user donspablo forks popular repos, adds his OWN sponsorship links all over them, then uses bots to increase his fork count to look like the official project. Definitely hope @GitHub take this shit down. For example: 12
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Here's my September 2023 Update: https://ko-fi.com/post/September-2023-Update-V7V3P3M85