I appreciate everything you do to help spread the word.

Good idea, but it is up to the Lemmy Dev team

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I don’t waste my time engaging with tyrannical crap.

They all know users can block communities the user does not want to see, but they do not want to give the user that power.

Because their real motivation is to stop other people seeing Exploding Heads content.

So I just went through all the communities on their site so I could see which of our communities are federating across and causing them grief. About 35 of our communities federate across and these only federate across because their users have specifically requested them to. of those 35, 2 or 3 contain controversial content that their users could individually decide to block if it offended them.

Interestingly the also have known child porn communities federating across to their site (not from Exploding Heads) which they seem quite ok about.

So I think the fact they federate with those child porn communities expose the real motivation behind this defederation effort - to censor political views they do not agree with.

Users can block communities (on any instance) they don’t like.

Is it a side effect of the drugs they are been given.

Thx

Bad.

I don’t want my beliefs confirmed, I want them challenged so I can consider counter arguments and refine my beliefs as required

When you launch a token on a decentralized exchange like Uniswap, Sushiswap, etc. you need to deposit an equal amount of ETH and the token you are launching.

The initial value of the token is the amount of ETH divided by the number of tokens you are launching divided.

A successful token launch requires money to be spent on development, marketing, community building, as well as the ETH to deposit into the decentralized exchange to launch the token.

Like most startups in any business, people launching tokens often do not have all the capital they need to do all the things they want to do to make their token launch successful.

So X7 has a Decentralized exchange called Xchange which allows them to lend you ETH by depositing it against the tokens you are launching so you do not have to. But the trick is, only X7 can withdraw the ETH so if you default they can easily get their ETH back.

Most of the tokens being launched have a transaction tax that builds up reserves over time to allow the X7 loan to be repaid.

It is a very specific lending case meeting a very specific need for people launching tokens, but if successful will I can see it expanding to meet other needs.

A loving family is the greatest thing that will ever happen to you.

It is also the greatest legacy you will leave behind on this earth.

Be patient, be nice, make yourself a better person, and good thing eventually happen.

I remember in the early days of the internet my nephew was born with a rare genetic disease and I was able to reach out directly to the world’s leading researcher in that disease - and he answered within a few hours.

That was the day I knee there might be something to this internet thing.

We have a community set up for bitcoin https://exploding-heads.com/c/cryptobitcoin

Love to get some more discussion going on it.

Also we have a bunch of other crypto communities all starting with the prefix “crypto” if you want to search the community list

Crypto will be a replacement for banks. Here is just one example of what is coming:

https://x7.finance/ provides loans to people launching tokens which:

• free up capital for them to invest in other parts of their business
• provides higher levels of liquidity for investors and makes it easier to attract larger investors
• helps the startup achieve a higher valuation at launch.

These loans:

• are permissionless - there is no approval process. You just say you want one
• you do not need to pledge security i.e. give a second mortgage on your house.
• they are under collateralized

As time goes by these loans will become available for other purposes.

As far as pooling of investments (deposits), X7 allows you to do that and so do lots of other crypto projects.

Most people hear crypto and think currencies, but they provide the means to build significant businesses that I believe on day will replace many traditional businesses.

The instance owner can turn off down votes. It is a check box in settings

We already sit behind the Akami DDOS prevention system. I do not think cloudflare would be any more effective.

When I look at the server - I am seeing the same behavior I saw when the big Lemmy instances started upgrading to v18. And these recent problems started when they started upgrading to release candidates for v18.3 - So I think this is a Lemmy federation problem not DDOS attacks.

We have plenty of bandwidth - do not even coming close to using it all. When we have these problems I am seeing spikes in CPU usage (normally 10% but spikes to 150% when we see these issues) and Disk I/O.

We plan upgrading the version of Lemmy we are running this weekend to see if that makes a difference.

A good Linux community would be great.

If stuff is off topic, then say so and remove it. I do not think that is unreasonable.

I think you will find we have a pretty good crew here with an occasional troll to be dealt with.

We are still at the early stages of looking at Nostr, I would not hold back on account of that.

When you set up your own community, you become the moderator and define the rules in the community. You can add other moderators as you see fit.

At an instance level, I just monitor the reports that come in and make sure sure there is no child porn, etc.

Be smart about the subject lines that appear in the local feed as they effect the whole instance.

I would welcome you to set up and if any problems crop up we will deal with them then.

But you seen how we operate here. We try to censor as little as possible.

Not in the USA. They had to divest it to get a merger approved