I want magnora7 back

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[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 5 fun -  (43 children)

Nope, good catch. And I sure as heck don't feel comfortable doing that with m7 being MIA. The site and servers and admins past and present are not compromised to my knowledge, but it's not like they'd send me a bouquet of flowers to announce it if they were. I don't have the security skills to do server audits either.

But I'm hoping m7 is just burned out or taking a break for personal/family reasons. And this site and many others have been compromised from the get-go in a certain sense, by using Cloudflare.

[–]HibikiBlack 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (41 children)

Are there any measures we can take when it comes to paying for Saidit ourselves somehow? I don't want to make it sound like Magnora won't come back but we gotta have some kind of emergency plan...

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (40 children)

The Patreon is still active, which I assume m7 is currently using to pay for saidit.

As far as an emergency plan, I don't know. If the server blipped out I don't know if it would be ethical or desirable for me to personally re-start it from a backup somewhere else. That would kinda be like me stealing m7's "saidit". I am into releasing an archive of public saidit data though.

Myself and several users here are interested in starting up some new decentralized Lemmy sites to fill this void: /s/cassy

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 6 fun -  (39 children)

Spock spoke.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (38 children)

I'll give it to you guys straight. It's mostly boring as shit though :D

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (37 children)

Maybe don't do frontend then ? Maybe do Haskell, Elixir or vim, or stuff i do then ? :) :) :)

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (36 children)

Hhaha that's right, sucks to the frontend.

Since you're technical, I'll mention that a huge factor with this codebase and me suggesting Lemmy, is that this reddit code is old as shit. It's still python 2 and requires all sorts of specific versions of stuff that only exists for Ubuntu 14. Upgrading it all is doable, but it's a burly project and I sure as heck don't want to tackle it by myself. I wouldn't want to write anything from scratch either, but the voat.xyz guy just pulled it off in lovely old PHP. The lemmy backend is done in Rust.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (20 children)

So you wanna lure me to DO your backend in Rust. SOLD.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (19 children)

Yes! Let's make Lemmy shine. It's kind of a lazy commie pile of shit at the moment, but the foundation for greatness is there.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (16 children)

Lemmy even doesn't accept my profile pic.

[–]oakenwheels 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is Lemmy open source?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

You actually run this shit. Thats funny. 5000 lines of code and i'm not any smarter. You run this. I can't stop giggling.

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    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

    This is a checked fact or what. Guess what: NO NEW INFO.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Rust.up then. As far as i can see.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CrBqRb3VGM

    I'm figuring out how to get Lemmy running behind a proxy server now, so that it won't leak its ip address. I can use help auditing the thing.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Haskell is more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI . If i remember right.

    [–]eh-non-plus 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Who cares? Just send me the server i am not scared to reveal my ip address or my physical address

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Cloudflare

    Their stock (NET) has been doing really good, they were the only suggestion in Motley Fool's Foolfest seminar I thought was a particularly good buy.