Yes. But why? I wasn’t able to find anything confirming the chain of events that led from an auction at over $2000 with the registration company refusing to cancel it, to Hexbear suddenly having their domain back and everything back to normal.

Good luck!

It’s really not clear that’s what happened. A direct question and there’s no real answer: https://hexbear.net/post/4470506

In the original thread about it there were people joking that the domain renewal didn’t get paid after DOGE cut funding.

But it’s just suspicious enough that if I were a user I’d not share any personal info and connect via a VPN…

It might need some special setup? Here’s a guide to setting up from a couple of years ago (hopefully not too far out of date): https://appelman.se/matrix-on-cloudflare

I haven’t done it myself (using Matrix.Org like a pleb) so can’t give any advice.

It seems to exist for me. I didn’t try to join but it seems to exist:

Interestingly it seems to be a room about ActivityPub not Lemmy. I’d probably join that room and then ask there. The lead devs are definitely active on Matrix so that’s where I’d head if I wanted to contribute.

There’s a guide to new contributors. It has a link to a Matrix chat where communication happens.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/01-overview.html

While the user bases of Piefed and Mbin are smaller, they should be included as they federate with Lemmy and interact with our communities.

The same is true of Mastodon but that’s a lot harder to count since most Mastodon users are not interacting with Lemmy (since it’s a different style of platform - microblog vs link sharing).

They plan to move to sublinks, but it’s still in development. So they said they will update to the latest version and also planning to update to 1.0 when released (planned for later this year) because their members are having trouble with apps etc after breaking changes.

There’s an update post here: https://beehaw.org/post/18771220

People who did upgrade would have found regressions in several of those versions.

We’re on 0.19.8 so just one version behind that I need to get around to updating, but before that there were a string of versions with known issues.

Lemmy is not even version 1 yet, it’s risky to update to a new version straight away.

A lot fewer possibilities than that! No special characters, all lower case, it was a word in the dictionary.

Those were different times.

I still sometimes think about my first email address, and how it had a four letter password. Just signed up at Yahoo, it wasn’t anything special.

Mozilla collects and shares some data with partners to keep Firefox commercially viable

How hard is it to be specific? People are concerned about this, can they not tell us the exact data they share and with whom, or is doing so going to make people more concerned so they are avoiding telling us?

Everyone knows you don’t upgrade to a X.0 release. Got to wait for X.1 at least.

Ah I see how that could work. The stations have wifi or mobile network, then Google Location Services uses that to pinpoint to the station. You will at the very least know the location of the defect to between two specific stations. Then you can use the other sensors to narrow it down.

How well does location tracking work underground?

The beautiful thing about decentralisation is that if an instance tries to as ads, then you can go to a different instance and see the same content.

If an instance creates as posts, your instance admin can block the whole instance.

Interestingly, the big instances seem to easily get enough donations to cover costs. I think that’s the great thing about this model, people are willing to donate when they know it’s not some big corporate making profit for shareholders.