I suspect we aren't high on the targets list. This looks like it's coming from the edgy part of fedi and we have really relaxed rules here, and we aren't talking about how "le nazis are at every corner and that it's only a matter of time until they take over!!1111!!!!" every 5s.
They make it abundantly clear tbf since it redirects you to lemonparty if you access any of their pages.
Not sure what mechanism does it, though. Since it lets me access a thread momentarily and then a few seconds later the redirect kicks on.
Anyways, mfw this happened to an instance that defederated us:
Did you guys say a heckin' transphobic? That is so unwholesome Keanu Chungus. Permabanned from my sub and muted for 54234324234231531t24 years so you can't ask me about your ban.
Just an FYI, lemmynsfw uses Cloudflare. So it's not a matter of if but when they'll get taken down.
Maybe. I know some of the more, erm, propaganda subs chose to keep their subs open.
It helps that the big subs pussied out because the powermods couldn't go without powertripping for a measly 48 hours.
I can imagine some politician saying something like this. "These are damn fine burgers!"
It was always deranged to some extent. But now it seems like the userbase there are unhinged and the most diehard of SJWs. Most subs on r/all are like this now. Nothing is apolitical to these people.
It's basically "REEEEPUBLICANS!" In a nutshell
Also, that instance is using Cloudflare. Which automatically makes it a privacy nightmare from the get-go. We don't use Cloudflare because they're a reverse proxy that MiTMs your connection, meaning that anything that travels to and from our server is unencrypted on their node, and we would get banned pretty quick what with the content that we host anyways.
They claim that they don't hold onto that data, but you never know. It's their servers and they can do whatever they want and justify it by using EULA weasel words
They're both about equal, IMO.
There's a reason we didn't go with kbin. For one, it uses PHP. Two, I see it as more alpha grade software compared to Lemmy, which I see as more beta software. They even say that Federation is a WIP on their docs.
Anything PHP I used always scaled horribly. And it makes sense with it being an interpreted language vs Rust which Lemmy uses.
Lemmy currently has a bit of a scaling issue too, mostly because of DB queries being implemented in such a way where they're slow and blocking. The maintainers are currently focusing on that from what I can tell.
Perhaps we should have it state to not use your main email if you're not comfortable with people potentially having it on our signup form?
Building a community is hard. Usually you have to have a decent bit of content to kind of jump start it, before people start posting.
I really do hope the slow DB query bottleneck can be ironed out before D-Day (API shutdown) happens.
I have a beefy server box so I think my server can handle the increased traffic (if it happens), but anyone on a VPS provider is going to get lots of timeouts and other nasty stuff when people try to signup and use their chosen instance.
