Didn’t stop everyone having a good foam at the mouth over it tho, aye 😜

Pretty disappointing how few people really read the articles.

I took the question to be “could you currently host fedi servers on the dark web, without any big changes to their code” but yeah I’m sure it’s possible to make it happen, if people wanted to put in the work.

Not feasible.

Just use an instance that is outside USA and not using a USA hosting company? Half the fediverse uses Hetzner, for example. OVH (French) is another popular provider.

I can see their posts ok, using the web.

Close. The retaliation was faked, tho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

Not really anything serious.

By poking around https://bonfire.fediverse.observer/list I found two (and only two) with open sign ups that do not say “demo and testing instance”:

Try:

https://discussions.sciety.org/

https://bonfire.home.coop/

It’s kinda amazing to me how they convinced so many people to give them money when that is all they have. I guess people want to have hope.

Yup and I noticed they’ve been saving their good jets for a rainy day too. Lost a few of the 1980s ones but none of the latest generation.

Browse https://piefed.social/topics or https://piefed.social/feeds

This might come as a surprise to you but sometimes Trump lies a little bit.

Smells like LLM to me.

I think https://liberapay.com/ does that?

That’s really nicely done, good work!

We really need to figure out the payment system for the fediverse… Good to see someone trying things.

When I put Stripe integration into PieFed I had absolutely zero donations through there, meanwhile my Patreon and Librepay had dozens of dollars in donations. Dozens!

People really really didn’t want to donate directly, for some reason. So I disabled the Stripe option.

Instead, Patreon takes 8% and their only payout method is Paypal so Paypal takes a percentage (5%?) and then when I transfer it to my bank from Paypal there’s a currency conversion so they take another 5%? and then I pay tax on whatever remains…

I wish CrowdBucks better luck than I had.

It will take between 1,000 and 15,000 years for the ice to melt on Greenland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet#Thresholds_for_total_ice_sheet_loss