What are your thoughts on communities about drugs? Pretty big topic for me, although the drug subs mostly haven’t moved here yet, is that because you ban them? If so, I’m wasting my time waiting for them here.

Why do we need laws on this topic at all?

I’d say I was happy, too, if I thought they might hang me or cane me if I didn’t. Happy as hell, sir!

Is that why I got cloudflare banned last night? All I did was click my Local Top Day bookmark.

Just a little, light cancer.

How is it legal to make up a fee then offer a paid membership to avoid the fee you just made up? How is that different from the mob guys that would collect your “insurance” membership so that you didn’t incur a “business burned down” fee?

What does the hair dryer do with all the water??

You know, if we had mass tagging built in to the platform, it would solve a lot of bot problems. Probably create whole new ones, too.

I watched this happen on the britishcolumbia sub. They got too many reports or something about misinformation (my memory is unclear about this point, but there was some dispute about misinformation), so the admins closed the sub, posted a message asking for the community to select moderators, then completely forgot about the whole thing. The sub (a sub for an entire Canadian province) was closed for like six weeks. Then some random did a reddit request and they gave it to him, not the mods the community voted on. This random waited for a while, then started letting racist stuff through, and booted the old mods who objected to the racist stuff he was allowing. And Reddit made it all happen.

The idea of Reddit replacing even a hundred mods, in a single day, with anyone capable of the job, is laughable. They couldn’t do a single sub in over six weeks, and even after six weeks they fucked it up.

idk, but somehow I did

They don’t have a payment method for me, so gl getting me to pay that bill, anyways. I think I’d rather go to collections than give Reddit a dime.

Does that mean Reddit will be sending us fat API bills for using our own API key?

I want one that’s already ‘there’. I appreciate the work and sacrifice early adopters are doing to help me get there.

I actually have Portainer set up and running, and I even spun up a few simple containers in it. Unfortunately I did so by following a guide to complete a specific task. I completed the task successfully, but now I have a Portainer install that I don’t understand in the slightest, and don’t know how to update it or any of the containers in it, or really do anything that wasn’t covered in the guide I followed (which I now cannot find). I found a YouTube video that tries to explain Portainer, but I don’t know the terminology of Docker enough to understand what they are saying, and I haven’t found a Docker video simple enough to bring me up to speed.

Is there any use to spinning up an instance, only allowing say 10 people max, then just keep it updated and let it run, to take the load of those ten people off the bigger instances? Is that too small time to be useful? I have pretty weak upload.

I think I just need a general overview. Something about the concept isn’t clicking for me, and it makes it hard for me to learn how to use it when I fundamentally don’t get it. Is there a really good “Introduction to Docker and the tools people use with it” that I haven’t found?

Docker is hurting my progress. I just can’t seem to wrap my head around it. Is there a Docker for Dummies?

Kinda depends. I have one that makes an excellent Plex server with an external USB drive for the media. It’s ancient, got it for nothing from an school that was going to throw it out, it’s got Intel QuickSync so it transcodes media in hardware. I even got the 2TB USB drive for nothing, friend didn’t need it any more and was going to throw it out, now it serves him media with the Plex server I built. Did the same with another Chromebook for Pi Hole. Now thinking about a slightly beefier one for Home Assistant. Might set up a Lemmy instance on another one, just for the fuck of it.

End of life Chromebooks, baby!

I signed up and then went to bed. I’m assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk