KelsonV

I'm sticking around here, but then I wasn't on /r/startrek to begin with

I don't know if this will work, and I'm going to have to try it, but Mastodon has a feature when looking at someone's profile to ignore boosts. My understanding of how Lemmy federated to other platforms is that the comments appear as boosts by the community, so turning on that option might do what you want.

(This is also why I stopped following communities through Mastodon, but I only thought of the no-boost idea just now when I saw your comment!)

Edit: It doesn't seem to work. The top-level posts don't show up in Mastodon either, which makes sense, because now that I look at it again, they're also federated as boosts.

Yep. DigitalOcean specifically recommends SendGrid as an alternative: https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/

Another way to look at it is that they suffered a DOS attack (in the form of more trolling than they could handle with their current staff), so they blocked the source. It sucks that some of it was coming from our instance.

Not everyone has the same level of resources available to deal with the same problems.

Neither Liberapay nor OpenCollective take a cut of the funds AFAIK, but one of the devs mentioned that Liberapay is simpler because OpenCollective requires them to submit detailed receipts for transparency.

Personally, while i think it's not the best solution...they don't owe us an audience or a megaphone. If they owe anyone anything, it's their own users. If they're overwhelmed, and i totally believe that they are, they should do what they have to in order to deal with it

Also from shit just works.

Aaaand I just read about the situation with Beehaw.org defederating from lemmy.world because their mods were overwhelmed, so that (for now) the two servers can't interact with each other.

So that's another way it matters.

Mostly it doesn't matter for the person using it*, so you can just pick one that isn't overloaded to start. But...

Ways it does matter:

• Your instance's moderation policy and actions. (including what content is allowed/disallowed, how they deal with harassment, etc.)
• Server reliability. This can change drastically if a lot of people join at once, as many Lemmy sites have discovered this week! (I believe Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world have both upgraded their hardware in the last few days to deal with this!)
• Admin reliability. This is harder to tell up front, but it's worth taking a quick look at whether the admins seem to be active and responsive, whether they seem like they're in it for the long haul or if they're experimenting, etc.

Switching is sort of easy in that all you have to do is create a new account somewhere, and you don't need to tell your followers because Lemmy doesn't have user subscriptions (though someone could follow you from, say, Mastodon)...

...but it's also not easy in that Lemmy doesn't have tools to export/import your subscriptions (yet?) so you have to add them to the new account manually. And moving your posting/comment history isn't something that's doable at the moment, either.

What I did when moving from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world was put the old/new accounts in each others' bios and add "Old Account" to the old one's display name. I'm not too attached to my post history sticking to my profile.

*I think it matters a bit more for where you set up a community, on the basis that an instance focused around, say, history would be a better place to create an archaeology community than one focused around FOSS. Though you might want to cross-post articles about free software used in archaeology!

Rubberized case, back only, no screen protector. No scratches on the screen as far as I can tell after ~2.5 years. I make a point to never put it in the same pocket as my keys. I've dropped it a few times, sometimes face down (on floors, anyway), but the case has absorbed enough of the impact that it wasn't damaged.

In the past I've had one phone that I dropped on concrete, that landed on a corner. That was in a hard plastic case, which broke and came off, but the phone only got a tiny crack in the corner of the screen and a dent in the corner of the phone itself.

It's insidious...

Um, never?

I've lost chargers on several occasions, and I've switched from older ones to newer ones for faster charging, but the older ones still work as spares.

Cables, on the other hand....