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Made a post to /c/Fediverse about Burggit shutting down and it sparked an interesting discussion about the current state of Lemmy

There was a previous post on that community about Burggit shutting down, but because it just linked to the announcement without explaining any of the details it didn’t get a lot of attention or generate much discussion, with most of the comments simply consisting of “loli bad”....

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A lot of our issues were due to the growing pains of our host who, don’t get me wrong, promptly responded and fixed issues as they popped up. The big reason we stuck with him is because he went to bat for us when someone did their typical crybully shit and tried to go above us and get us censored by our ISP despite the infringing content being completely legal in the country that the host is in.

I highly recommend kyun.host for this very reason because they will promptly tell any complainer to fuck off so long as the host they’re complaining about isn’t doing anything illegal. It really is censorship resistant.

I’d get pinged all the time on our Matrix that the server is down or is slow and other stuff which caused the components of the server, namely pictrs to crash and exhibit undefined behavior, since our image storage host was accessed via an NFS share to a spinning rust server with more ample storage mounted through a Wireguard tunnel. With each server going down all the time, it’d cause Lemmy to seriously break and require a manual fix to get it going again. Over time, I’ve gotten kinda burnt out from maintaining the site and slowly just mostly stopped using it altogether aside from a cursory glance every now and again to make sure it was still working, due to my increasingly waning lack of interest in perusing the site.

If it wasn’t for the funding issues, this instance probably would’ve remained on the same path to being shutdown just at a later date, most likely. Just because it’s too much for one person to maintain given all these situations along with the software still being of a beta quality piling onto our already existing issues. And frankly, I don’t have fun using it anymore and honestly completely dread working on it.

I absolutely refuse to create an account on any of the popular instances, which would probably end up in a repeat of the Lemmy Admin Matrix room situation where I laughably got permanently banned on sight for “CSAM” even though I never posted any such thing, rofl. So I’ll leave this here, the hyperlink in that post references their Fediseer tool:

https://shota.nu/ss/xsfosmqk.png

This is precisely another reason why I’m glad we’re shutting down, the threadiverse is so stifling that we have to be on our best behavior or else we get labeled through your dumb Fediseer tool. Sometimes wrongly, (IE: calling us bigots when we fully support the trans movement, as well as the overall LGBTQ movement as a whole, and any movement that’s focused on minorities.) labeling us as a bad instance. The fact that your tool doesn’t allow instances to opt out can create a completely slanderous situation if a clique of high profile instances decide that they don’t like you.

Burggit will live on in a frankly more fun microblogging fork of Misskey, called Sharkey in the wider fediverse. A big chunk of which, will not give two shits about the reputations passed down to instances by this tool wielded by a clique of popular Lemmy instances whose behavior would make a typical Reddit powermod blush, since it takes itself way less seriously: dill.burggit.moe

Burger,
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Going back on my, “This is the last post I’m making on Burggit.” Already apparently, lol. This was something that I thought of covering, but ultimately decided not to, since I thought the post was long enough as it is. Thank you very much for bringing this up.

Burger,
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I really should write up a guide for it. I’ve just been procrastinating on it. The gist of it is that each timeline has the following:

Home: People you follow

Local: Everyone in your instance

Social: Home + Local

Bubbles/Reccommened: Servers the admin reccomend (like a network or webring)

Global: Every server the instance is federated with

I’ve chosen these instances for the bubble timeline:

varishangout.net

bae.st

pleroma.skyshanty.xyz

shota.house

kyou.social

breastmilk.club

lain.com

burggit.moe

uoh.cx

shortstacksran.ch

baraag.net

shrine.moe

dill.burggit.moe

akkoma.kikuri.moe

binky.fish

kitty.haus

cannibal.cafe

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I suppose I should post the Sharkey instance URL while I’m at it: dill.burggit.moe

Burger,
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I feel the exact same way. I hardly use Lemmy anymore. It consists of the same tired ragebait articles on the front page of each instance. As well as the same familiar Reddit style of moderation where “Anyone who doesn’t agree with me gets permabanned.”

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Any app that supports the Mastodon API is compatible with Sharkey. So apps like Husky, and Fedilab will work with it. You can also click More > switch ui on the webui for alternate layouts that you can try.

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Not sure about that. I’d just right click -> copy image and paste it into your post and link the source.

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That being said, there’s a markup language guide for doing some fancy stuffs. Embedding images doesn’t appear to be in here, but what’s in here still looks neat:

misskey-hub.net/en/docs/for-users/features/mfm/

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It’s not 1:1 to traditional forums like Lemmy/Reddit, but there’s channels for which you can group posts following a specific topic. I wish this feature was more at the forefront, imo. You access it by going to More -> Channels

https://dill.burggit.moe/files/bb913470-600a-4669-896e-d5579a813278

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Anything compatible with Mastodon will work with Sharkey. There’s Husky, Fedilab, Milktea to name a few.

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The only instance we defederate is Meta’s threads.net, and we intend to not defederate any other instances, barring any illegal imagery that comes across our feed.

I’m not 100% certain that this is how to do it, but for Lemmy instances, I believe you should be able to trigger a federation with your desired community by searching @communityname and following that account. Since to the fediverse, the threadiverse just shows up as individual accounts for each community.

Burger,
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I personally lean more towards Misskey because I find it dead simple to maintain. Kbin/Mbin has a lot of moving parts to it.

Burger,
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Excellent looking butt to wake up to! ablobhearteyes

Burger,
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Nice butt!

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If it’s like the only spice, then it’s better than nothing, IMO.

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They should cite it as a threat to democracy.

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Fuck, this one’s hot.

Burger,
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I don’t know why that burger isn’t front and center since that should be the star of the dish.

Burger,
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Fire alarms are the new trains. blobcatthinking2

Burger,
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So smug… ablobcathappypaws

Burger,
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Insanely cute. ablobowo

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Yeah, toss that condom by the wayside. ablobcatjumping

Burger,
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Step 7. Install cmatrix and make your terminal look like the Matrix!!1111

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At a quick glance I can tell they’re just 3D models. I’ll see what @Disabled has to say about this since I browse /3/ a lot so my perception of what constitutes whether or not a given image looks like a 3D model or looks real is quite skewed.

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Just updating you that it might be about a week before he can get back to us on this due to an IRL emergency that’s happening for him.

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LOL

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Butt. :p

I just got a new job after a year and a half of unemployment. Am hapi.

I spent 2021-2022 programming for great salaries ($4000-6000 per month is a lot in Latin America and Europe) and then in October 2022 I got laid off due to a massive company downscale and I was left somewhat depressed. I found it very hard to even start looking for another job. However, courtesy of Nepotism™️, I got invited...

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Congrats!

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https://burggit.moe/pictrs/image/f39b674e-8f8e-4aab-a412-3795be5cb018.jpeg

18+ Changes Coming. Now's the time to tell us your feedback.

Hey guys, it’s been a long time. I was sick for awhile, so sick I have 2 hospital visits which almost landed me 6ft under. This is why I’ve basically been entirely absent the past few months. This has left Burger all alone to do both the public facing PR type stuff (which used to be my territory) and the backend....

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100% agreed, @Disabled is cute!

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It’s less work for me. Since all I’m doing is a text replace at the reverse proxy level. I’m not having to change code for this since I’m just replacing what gets sent out. It’d be one thing if this breaks apps, but afaik apps just use the Lemmy API.

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This should be fixed. I goofed somewhere when I was trying to fix a separate annoying issue. I rolled back the changes and I’ll have to take a stab at it later whenever I’m feeling up to it. For glaring issues like this, please ping me on Matrix. I don’t bite, and it’s the fastest way to get ahold of me.

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Not able to duplicate this on v23.11.29. You select the subscribed button and scroll down to achieve this crashing behavior?

Burger,
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I tried setting subscribed to default like you had and am still not able to duplicate this. I forgot to point out that this is a fresh install, so maybe clearing data/reinstalling the app is in order?

I primarily use Burggit in a PWA on mobile since it seems to work pretty darn well by default. I’m on Android 13 too if that matters.

Burger,
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Which community was it? I’m curious to see what data the server tries to return, assuming I can reproduce this on my end.

E: I noticed that it’s running 0.19.0. Maybe try another server we’re fed’d with that runs an older version to see if this same behavior happens.

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It outright crashes. The logs don’t show the instance trying to send anything when it happens, so it’s purely a client-sided issue… Do try another community from an instance that’s fed’d that runs an older version of Lemmy to see if it happens with that one too (If you can find one.)

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This appears to be an app issue, then. I scrolled through my subscribed feed on the Boost app and even found a post from that community, and no crashes occurred there. Nothing I can do about it, I’m afraid. I guess report the issue to the maintainer and hope that you don’t get banned for the contents of the report (lol)?

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Running into heavy packet loss again for the moment… https://burggit.moe/pictrs/image/9fdc2a8c-d2d8-417b-bbb6-ad4bbfcad13d.png

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Seems it’s resolved for now.

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There’s been a DDoS hitting my host. It’s not directed at us since it’s hitting the /24 subnet. Not sure if you are on my home server, but I suggest getting an alt if you want to get on there, if this is the case. I can’t decouple the Matrix home server from the Burggit VPS because the domain is needed to point at the Burggit VPS.

Burger,
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It’s similar in concept to the fediverse on here. You pick your home server which would be something like cutefunny.art, uddu.chat, matrix.org, etc. and you go to your destination room/space, in this case, you’d go to matrix.to/#/:burggit.moe

Burger,
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It depends on the policies of the home server. It’s technically allowed on Burggit’s space, but we’ve never had any requests for such a room on here. Most of what gets discussed is technical issues with the site, giving updates on matters, etc.

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I think I figured out the problem. Need to give it a while for federation to catch up.

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