Not really anything serious.

By poking around https://bonfire.fediverse.observer/list I found two (and only two) with open sign ups that do not say “demo and testing instance”:

Try:

https://discussions.sciety.org/

https://bonfire.home.coop/

It’s kinda amazing to me how they convinced so many people to give them money when that is all they have. I guess people want to have hope.

The story was invented so people would subscribe to his substack, which exists to promote his company.

We’re being manipulated into sharing made-up rage-bait in order to put money in his pocket.

The answer to that is literally in the first sentence of the body of the article I linked to.

GPTZero is 99% accurate.

https://gptzero.me/news/gptzero-accuracy-stats/

https://gptzero.me/ is free, give it a try. Generate some slop in ChatGPT and copy and paste it in.

I’ve tested lots and lots of different ones. GPTZero is really good.

If you read the article again, with a critical perspective, I think it will be obvious.

FYI this article is written with a LLM.

Don’t believe a story just because it confirms your view!

These two new features have complete API support so I’m hoping the client apps get on board with these quicker than they have been able to in the past.

See also ~peertube@piefed.social

Check out https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser

Coding a carddav export / import would be easy. But realistically every platform will need to just use whatever format Mastodon uses.

And then there’s the question of what would importing fedi contacts into an address book app actually do - most contacts apps would merge contacts based on email address or phone number, neither of which are available in a federated situation. If the app merged based on name that wouldn’t work great either because few people use their full/real name on fedi.

Well said.

I’m mindblown that serious career/business people still post on X. Don’t they see the brand damage they’re causing to their company and themselves?

Thank you Eugen, for everything.

Groups

Yes, it’s tricky. I don’t remember which instance it was but it was one of the smaller lemmy instances with roughly the same MAU as Piefed.social, tho. Not any of the top 6 Lemmy instances.

It could have been an outlier. Looks like lemmy.mods4ever.com is much more reasonable although that’s a single-user instance so it’s going to be the absolute minimum.

I can’t find/remember the post but recently an admin shared some resource usage graphs. The thing that jumped out at me was their Lemmy instance was using 32 GB of ram while their PieFed instance was using 2 GB of ram. Maybe a little more, but it was low single digits.

Maybe their piefed graph did not include postgresql, which should be 2 GB just by itself… That would bring the total up to around 4 or 5 GB. piefed.social uses between 4 and 5 GB, too.

CPU usage was quite similar between the two.

https://piefed.social/topic/tech/linux#topic_communities

I’m a flask developer but even so I would use PHP for this. There are a million php-based contact form scripts on the web and configuring caddy to use PHP will be easier than python/flask.

As for the sending email part - don’t run a smtp server locally, too much hassle. Smtp2go has a free tier which will be fine.

IMO Lemmy/PieFed is safer to run because the community mods will delete anything illegal, which will delete it for you, too. About 5 instances host 95% of communities worth joining so it’s easy for us to coordinate defense.

Mastodon is thousands of instances and more wild west. Bad stuff can come from anywhere.