They’re necessary, but any power will always bring a chance that someone will abuse it. So I usually prefer moderators with a lighter touch, that talk to their users before taking more controversial actions.

I miss Tumblr. Yes, Tumblr still exists, but the Tumblr I miss does not. This stuff makes me wonder if we’ll see an ActivityPub Tumblr-clone at some point, like Lemmy/Kbin to Reddit, Mastodon to Twitter and PeerTube to YouTube.

Ads can deliver viruses, many ads are animated or have sound, or both. If every ad were static and safe, I wouldn’t mind so much… but alas, that’s not a thing. So AdBlock it is!

And sometimes, justice requires breaking the law. Remember that the Holocaust was legal and Stonewall was not.

Yeah, this makes sense. The health of the instance we’re on is our concern too. Since a Fediverse instance is not a faceless entity and doesn’t pull the same capitalist shenanigans on its users, the users will probably be more willing to support it with donations if they see something like this. Many other donation-funded sites have something similar.

Initially, it’s probably fine to have it included in the server rules blurb on the side, but it should probably just be part of the API for mobile clients, and possibly communicated to other servers too? So if some valuable content is on an instance that’s not doing well, you can deal with that. If it regularly gets valuable content but can’t sustain itself, people might donate even if it’s not their home instance. Otherwise, it can be copied somewhere safe, if it’s basically abandoned.

My last two phones both got slow as their batteries got bad, and were basically like new after replacing them. My current phone doesn’t allow swapping the batteries.

For someone thrifty, being able to replace the battery can extend a phone’s life 2x or more. Even if you don’t want to keep using it, you could still resell it or give it to someone who doesn’t need the newest phones. Non-swappable batteries are a form of planned obsolescence, in addition to just being more compact and probably a little cheaper.

Here in the Netherlands, we only tip for fancy restaurants, if the service was good.

FMHY now has an updated rule: “4. Self-Promotion is fine, but please keep “donation” links in your bio.”

I have replied, asking about watermarks and other ways of reminding people to look there. Though I think watermarks are pretty much gonna have to be accepted anyway, as they’re necessary to deal with people reposting without credit anyway. So you could just have a visible artist tag somewhere on the art, have a link in your bio, and it should be alright?

Edit: So yeah, watermarks are totally fine. And other reminders to check the bio for a link might also be? Just got a “yeah that’s fine” and I’m not sure if I can actually re-read my own messages to Kaizen. Anyway, the main point is to prevent people from spamming links, apparently.

While FMHY isn’t an art-focused instance, I’ve had a pleasant interaction with one of its admins before, so I poked them (Kaizen) about this.

For any community, you can easily go to its page on its own instance by clicking the gray link right under the community name. For this community, it looks like “!main@sh.itjust.works”. From there, you can click the instance name on the top left to go to its home page. On the right sidebar, it’ll show the instance rules, and below that is a list of admins. You could just pick one from there to send a message to, about this.

Alternatively, you could post about this on the “main” communities of various instances. They don’t necessarily have the same name but they’re usually not hard to find.

Have you contacted any instance admins about this yet?

There is, of course, a difference between a post that’s pure ad, and a post that’s art that contains a Patreon link. One provides nothing to the viewer, the other is a normal post with a little self-promotion added.

It’s good to err on the side of caution in this, but the admins should really add a note about self-promotion to any rule about ads, to clarify this.