Wander @ Wander @yiffit.net

30-something grey wolf therian and furry. Admin of yiffit.net lemmy instanc

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I don't think it's necessary to go that far. After all, there's nothing wrong with Yiff and I believe that most instances also understand this. From my limited experience of being a Mastodon admin for half a year, what most instances are concerned is about the nature of the content that is posted, not necessarily whether it's NSFW or not. Sometimes admins can be a bit hypervigilant, but in general they want to avoid unmoderated instances, instances that spread racism, hate speech or problematic material.

We should be fine with our name as long as we make it clear that our instance is well moderated and that we don't share problematic content. Once we are more established we should be fine with also sharing content that's more niche and perfectly legal, but which could make other instance admins raise an eyebrow. We need them to get us to know better first.

Thank you! I didn't know it was like that, but it makes perfect sense.

Absolutely! <3

Yes. ICANN has the root DNS servers which point to the DNS servers of the registries (company that manages a domain extension in exchange for a hefty sum each year) which point at the DNS servers of the registrar (company authorized by the registry to sell domains) which either hosts your DNS entries or they can point to any server you tell them.

The commercial DNS you mention are called resolvers and are specialized in retrieving records from the linked chain of servers I mentioned above and caching them so it'll take less time.

You could point your own resolver to the ICANN root server and then set up your computer to use that resolver.

When you buy a domain, you buy the right to (among other things) edit the address book for that domain, also known as DNS zones.

Once you buy the domain, for example, you can tell your domain provider "I want example.com to point to the IP address 1.2.3.4".

Most importantly the domain provider has been given the rights to sell these domains by ICANN who manages what is known as the "root DNS servers".

When a computer has no idea who to contact to resolve a domain it contacts the root DNS servers first and these tell them to check the entries of the domain provider. It all trickles down from there. If the domain provider wasn't approved by ICANN then their root DNS servers would never point to them.

In reality there's more organizations involved including: resellers, registrars and registries. But they all follow the same principle and create a chain of linked address books (DNS zones) that flow from the root DNS servers.

There is not stopping you from setting up your own domain system. You can get all the domains you want for free, but no other computer would be able to access them because by default the convention is to trust only the ICANN DNS servers.

If you use windows, Google "hosts file". In that file you can enter any domain you want and an associated IP address and your computer will comply with it. You could even have google.com point to your own homepage, but of course that would only be your computer.

By the way, if you hear about DNS servers like google's 8.8.8.8 or cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, these are not the root DNS servers. These are called "resolvers" and they are the ones that talk to the root DNS zones and cache their response so that it can be resolved faster instead of having to go down the whole chain every time.

Welcome! Thank you so much for joining! Do you have a FA page or gallery? Also, your sona is adorable. I love the ceiling cat reference!

It's automatic. You don't have to do anything. You just need to worry about not distributing content that will leave people block you.

Unfortunately yes, that would be best. Maybe you can bring it up in !chat@yiffit.net and someone can create it for you?

The best is to subscribe to each of them and then you'll be able to see them all in a single feed.

Please credit the artist in the title. Thank you <3

Don't forget to credit the artist, please! ❤️❤️❤️

What would you say are the main cons... of huge cons? :P (sorry for the bad wordplay).

Yup! Totally agreed.

Thank you <3 It means a lot that you get this feeling. I'll do my best to make sure it stays tat way and even gets better.

Alright! I'll try to have new guidelines up by tomorrow ^^

I just noticed that it probably is a coding error in the UI. If I close the browser tab just after posting it will still have been published correctly even if I didn't wait for the spinning animation to finish.

Maybe the UI isn't getting a success callback, but definitely looks like something I can't change by merely changing some performance settings.

Yes, that's a good idea. I had thought about that but wasn't sure whether to put it in the title or body of the post. Do you have any preferences?

Thank you! I was worried that people would see more stale posts because of the default setting. At least for me "Hot" is much better for fresh content.

Thank you a lot for your offer! I don't do this directly for a living, so I'm pretty sure you're better at it than I am :P The biggest problem I have now is that there really seems nothing wrong from the logfiles. I have also noticed that it takes more to load the larger the more subscribers the community has. I'm inclined to believe at this point that it might be lemmy doing all the federation stuff while the spinner is still loading, instead of telling the user that it has been posted and then doing all the federation announcing in the background.

Fortunately all this lead me to notice that my PGTUNE settings for postgres hadn't been applied when I installed lemmy and now the site is much faster, except for those actions that require some sort of "announcing". I've also increased the federation worker count to 512 which is what lemmy.ml currently uses and is surely overkill.

I've also noticed that the Jerboa app itself takes some time to post when using a lemmy.ml account (which is the flagship) and only posts something after timing out. So... I'm inclined to believe it's some bug which hasn't been noticed too much because usually communities didn't have as many subscribers.

I have to leave now, but I'll keep you posted! Thank you so much <3

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