Piefed has built-in processes to aid in moving communities to it. See the previous reply from Blaze.

When I read the article, it seemed they were very careful not to mention who the 3rd party Cloud provider was who really caused the outage. It was Google Cloud.

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/multiple-cloud-services-down-as-google-cloudflare-resolve-issues

The downvotes and karma do not stop you from saying whatever you want. It just means you have to say it somewhere else. Hence, you are not censored.

I’m on the Mozilla VPN which uses Mullvad and I don’t see a problem.

As a believer in the Fediverse, thank you to all those involved in lemm.ee. You are the pioneers that helped grow this wonderful alternative to corporate-owned media, especially Reddit, and proved it’s viable and better. Thanks for all you’ve done! I wish you the best.

It’s amazing that a company can get public officials to sign an agreement making it illegal for them to give any information to their electorate about a project that would have a huge impact on them in every possible way. No elected official should ever sign such an agreement. Why would they? But, they did. Corruption is the only reason I can think of.

And why is there no law against elected officials agreeing to become agents of a corporation against the interest of the electorate? Same answer, probably.

But all these people were elected by the ones they are hurting. And the electorate most likely elected their leaders based on some emotional non-existent issues instead of picking leaders based on commitment, honesty, competency, and a desire to help people. From what I see from the rest of the country, and we are talking about Alabama here, they may have gotten the government and outcome that they deserve and are actually responsible for their own problem. I think American voters are bringing all of this personal damage upon themselves.

I’m a disillusioned American, by the way.

Yes, that happened once and I quickly removed the account. Because I leave the site open, I need to be prepared to put in the extra time to moderate it.

I’ve been running a Peertube instance for, I think, at least 2 years now? My registrations are open. I have some large initial limitations on upload sizes too and will adjust them up even higher as I see that videos being posted aren’t violating the rules.

Why do I keep registration open in mine?

I suppose it comes down to why the site was created. My reason was simply to provide an alternative to YouTube, on principal, and as an advocate against corporate control and ownership over people and their videos. Given this, at least for my site, “I just wanna upload stuff” IS a valid reason to open an account on my site.

I’m glad you asked. This has been irritating me for a long time.

This tells me that you’d be in a lot of trouble if you lost your phone or had to wipe it because someone got into it. It’s probably good then that you’re now thinking about this so you can prepare for a time when you won’t have your phone for other reasons.

All sites supporting 2FA usually allow you to use a second method. Email is usually an alternative. Assuming that your email is your universal second OTP method, you just need to make sure you will always have access to your email account and you’ll be fine. So just solve for the OTP problem for your email account.

Pre-buy your burner phone and make it a second OTP device for your email account. For more assurance, buy a couple of physical keys (like Yubikey) that can be used with your email account. These can also be set up for some of your other accounts that support it, which may be more convenient than email when accessing them.

This better be an April Fools joke

I tried translating something before posting it to the same language (Thai) and apparently nobody understood what I was talking about. But enough people understood English, so at least some people would have understood me if I just posted it in English. The others could try translating.

Responding in English, if this is your language, is not Anglo domination. A lot of people learn English as a second language, so many know it. If you translate to Japanese and post it, then when people translate it to English, or Spanish, whatever, it will make no sense whatsoever.

When I traveled to France, a Middle Eastern family came into the restaurant and asked for the English menu. They couldn’t read the French menu. But they knew enough English. That’s when I realized that restaurants in France offered English menus, not for Westerners, but because more people in the world were likely to understand it rather than French.

I post in English. Translating from English to Spanish is better than English to Japanese to Spanish.

Astounding number of changes! Thank you so much, all, for your hard work on this!

Well said

I see no legitimate reason for not using a User Agent string, like all the other crawlers use, other than the desire to hide the crawler and make it difficult to block.

I don’t accept his explanation. I see it as gaslighting.

Yes, it’s worth it. I own mine for just the reason you give. You can take it to any other provider. And there’s no danger of the email provider deciding to close your account or cutting you off unexpectedly. Imagine losing your email access. At least with your own domain, you can switch it that same day to someone else.

Unsure about whois lookup privacy. My registrar hides my details as an option. Anyone looking up the domain just sees them as the contact for the domain.

You can go to https://hear-me.social/ and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.

I just duplicated this. I downloaded Pale Moon and went to https://hear-me.social/ and clicked on “Register”. It puts up a Cloudflare “managed challenge” which loops endlessly when using Pale Moon, but not the other browsers I’ve tried it with, including Zen, another Firefox fork.

It’s a problem, for sure.

Have you tried asking in helpers@forum.friendi.ca, the Friendica support group?

I’m so glad you pointed this out. I did not have this enabled on mine and I forgot about this option completely. I just enabled it.