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[–]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.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

It's a huge step backwards compared to all of the functionality in this codebase, for sure. Aside from Lemmy's decentralization/ActivityPub.

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

Is Lemmy open source?

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[–][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.

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

      no, it's to protect the server's ip address. so it cannot be DDOSed directly.