I’m constantly getting down votes because of the community topic. I’m making sure that it’s not someone habitually downvoting. If it were then I would refer it to the admins. People think flipping = scalping so ancaps and others kneejerk downvote. I fixed some broken consoles this weekend and now I’m going to re-sell them, but they don’t understand that. Just like someone downvoted me for using an llm as a search engine to learn how to so something new.
Except that I wrote most of it first and had to fix problems myself because it was buggy as hell. It really only gave me the jq urI part.
You downvoted me for posting a bash script, I guess I know why now. Vote count does matter a little bit because you’re pushing someone’s post down so others can’t see it. Kind of a bummer when I’m just trying to grow a small community and share with people.
I also mod. !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world There’s no difference between creating a community on a big instance and hosting a small one in that regard. The costs would be the exact same. I’m taking administration into my own hands and taking that load away from them, and decentralizing which benefits users. If Lemmy.World goes down or defederates from another big instance or makes up some weird rules, then my instance isn’t affected and users have continuity even if they have to make a new account elsewhere.
The way Lemmy works that media is stored on their instance, not mine. The only thing stored on mine are posts and whatever I upload. It costs $5 a month for a cloud server. I could host from home but I don’t feel like messing with it and it’s cheaper than setting up a server.
Without users the hosting cost is very low. I suppose it could go away if something happened to me I guess. The point is that it’s a community which is completely decentralized.
Feel free to visit. !dullsters@dullsters.net a completely independent and topic focused instance with no users. I created it so that the community would not disappear if an instance closed down or defederated from another big instance.
Type in credentials and click “are you human” then I get “pick all objects that fit in a basket” after that it’s “please enter the code we just sent”
I just never bothered with the screws, some cables even came without them.
!dull_mens_club@lemmy.world and
I just launched
Which is not active yet, but I’m trying to post a little bit to get the ball rolling.
You’re allowed to buy electricity from a separate broker than your “power company” so they split the bill between power usage and service fees plus there’s state and local taxes.
I wouldn’t care if I had to use multiple messanger apps. There used to be a pc program that let you login to msn, irc, and yahoo messanger all at once and manage your accounts in one place.
i have dissasembled batteries to recharge the 81650 cells inside then reassemble. If they drop below a certain threshhold then the protection circuit won’t charge them. I have a special charger/tester for lithium cells and a battery tab welder. It’s only worth it if the replacement is unavailable and it’s for something very rare.
I have an axiety disorder, so I’m suing for discrimination.
Itt, I struck a chord? Not sure why I’m being downvoted.
It’s a community only instance. If two big instances defederate from each other, then those users can still visit the same old community. I also don’t have to follow any rules set by admin which don’t really apply to dull content in the first place. Plus I just like growing the fefiverse and the idea of decentralization.
If I subacribe or visit any communities elsewhwere then those will show on the all feed on my instance. So I just have an admin account over there.
It gives you a bit more freedom in that you can federate or defederate with whatever instance you want, you can make your own communities that are free from other instance admin descisions like fed/defed. Less risk of losing your account.
I own dullsters.net but I keep it “pure” by not using that account out here. That way any outside visitor to the site only sees dull stuff.
It’s always awesome to see the community I created mentioned in the wild!
I also created !dullsters@dullsters.net as an independent alternative.