Lol, I’ve been wanting to tear down my old laptops down to the board and run them “bare” in my rack as some sort of cluster lmao

I’m not sure for all use cases, I can confidently say that if you depend on networking features of X or something like xrdp (Like me lol) then that’s going to be a solid NO

But if not, then maybe?

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ it was mostly for others.

But on a technical note, subscriber count is an almost useless metric on Lemmy. There are a LOT of dead accounts.

A far better metric is MAUs, which .ml linux ranks 29th

Context:

Why am I cross-posting .ml?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

CW: Original transphobic Comment from Nutomic

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

Ugh, don’t remind me, I get annoyed whenever I see them in the checkout lane.

Yes we actually still have them, but we have them in the most insulting way, basically one half of the shell is a candy part and the other is the toy and each half is separate by its own film covering.

I bet it was because one kid in the 80s or some shit was in some freak accident or something and the Pearl Clutchers of America™ rode in on their high horse to protect everyone lol

Yea, they basically already self isolate sooo it’d just be another Tuesday for them lmao

Thanks! Fixed

Cartman would honestly be a better president, Meteor would be even better, but his pools cratered in the last election

But if we did that, we’d also need to send like CEOs since after all there’s profit in war, won’t you think of the poor poor CEOs?

It’s the new Saddam Hussein meme, you’re going to think you see them everywhere for weeks

Yes, but now there’s been a study(s) done, and more studies to backup (or disprove!) is always good, even if the subject “is a given”

No I think I just forgot to paste lmao

It’s in the crosspost menu

Yea fuck it, I was planning on launching a meme instance soon because I also have the perfect meme domain (don’t ask me how many domains I have)

But now I’m shelving that and revitalizing my ST instance plans instead.

Ill just have to get around to making the LCARS Lemmy UI later lol

Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

I had wanted to start a Star Trek instance because I have a domain with LCARS in it that would be fitting, but I never got around to it because startrek.website existed

I think Star Trek fandom is big enough for a focused instance, just not 2 of em lmao

Hmm you can get around that comm ban by spreading a link that goes through another instance, because lemmy.ml blocks [email protected] for pretty much the same reasons (Can’t let your captive audience know of the outside dissent!)

So a link like this https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] will allow a StarTrek.website user to at least see the comm

Oop forgot the tag, fixed

No no, the one that goes Boop beep beep boop!

I miss old YT