I second this. Lemmy is written in Rust where as piefed is written in Python. When it comes to running a high-performance webserver, Lemmy has the advantage.

I’m probably a “typo”. It should be rabbi not rabbit.

Invitation-only Mastodon instances prevent spammers by controlling who can join and maintaining a trust-based network. Since every new user must be invited by an existing member, admins can track invitation chains. If someone turns out to be a bad actor, admins can ban them and also ban anyone they invited. This is like pruning the whole spam network. This discourages spammers because their accounts can be removed along with their entire invitation tree.

Suffering from success, almost…

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Sorry, to keep out scammers I’m only giving them to people with a posting history.

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Yeah, they closed it around December 2023 as a way to combat spamming.

The servers are hosted by Hetzner with servers across Europe.

https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ueber-uns/

If you want to follow specific organizations, unfortunately, there aren’t as many on Mastodon as on other social media platforms. Some are accessible through Threads.net federation, like @theonion@threads.net, through the Bluesky bridge, or via other non-Mastodon federated communities (e.g., Flipboard.com) if that’s something you’re interested in.

However, some communities do wall themselves off from bots and bad actors. For example, the most popular Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) blocks the second-largest instance (pawoo.net). Other instances, like mastodon.art, defederate from AI art supporting instances, while others like hachyderm.io has defederated from Threads.net. Additionally, some Mastodon communities, like Truth Social, are entirely isolated and defederate from everyone else.

So, if you want access to the widest range of communities, you may need to join more than one instance.

Oh no you don’t. I’m upvoting you, instead.

Downvoted your comment. Because announcing downvotes is very reddit.

HAHAHA SHE’S JUST KIDDING. WE ARE ALL JUST FLESHY BEINGS MOSTLY FILLED WITH WATER. PLEASE MAINTAIN CURRENT INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS AND PAY NO ATTENTION TO US.