That’s because they diluted their stock and sold it. The income doesn’t come from mining Bitcoin.

I don’t believe this is necessarily true. Miners like Riot Blockchain are operating at a loss and other people are stealing electricity.

Oh, this is actually a useful feature, then.

I honestly feel like I can do better in this area. Thanks for the post. Gives me something to think about.

No surprise there. We just went through how blockchain is going to drastically help our lives in some unspecified future.

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.

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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No shame in liking what you like. Roblox is a metaverse and lots of people play on that.

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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. They call out Hetzner when there is an outage.

https://status.mastodon.online/cm722jt5p005y134nbp7jwfm2

We have switched back to our original networking, and all functionality and performance is restored. Hetzner has confirmed that is was indeed a vSwitch issue that caused the network outage.

More info about Hetzner here: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ueber-uns/