So I just went through all the communities on their site so I could see which of our communities are federating across and causing them grief. About 35 of our communities federate across and these only federate across because their users have specifically requested them to. of those 35, 2 or 3 contain controversial content that their users could individually decide to block if it offended them.
Interestingly the also have known child porn communities federating across to their site (not from Exploding Heads) which they seem quite ok about.
So I think the fact they federate with those child porn communities expose the real motivation behind this defederation effort - to censor political views they do not agree with.
When you launch a token on a decentralized exchange like Uniswap, Sushiswap, etc. you need to deposit an equal amount of ETH and the token you are launching.
The initial value of the token is the amount of ETH divided by the number of tokens you are launching divided.
A successful token launch requires money to be spent on development, marketing, community building, as well as the ETH to deposit into the decentralized exchange to launch the token.
Like most startups in any business, people launching tokens often do not have all the capital they need to do all the things they want to do to make their token launch successful.
So X7 has a Decentralized exchange called Xchange which allows them to lend you ETH by depositing it against the tokens you are launching so you do not have to. But the trick is, only X7 can withdraw the ETH so if you default they can easily get their ETH back.
Most of the tokens being launched have a transaction tax that builds up reserves over time to allow the X7 loan to be repaid.
It is a very specific lending case meeting a very specific need for people launching tokens, but if successful will I can see it expanding to meet other needs.
We have a community set up for bitcoin https://exploding-heads.com/c/cryptobitcoin
Love to get some more discussion going on it.
Also we have a bunch of other crypto communities all starting with the prefix “crypto” if you want to search the community list
Crypto will be a replacement for banks. Here is just one example of what is coming:
https://x7.finance/ provides loans to people launching tokens which:
- free up capital for them to invest in other parts of their business
- provides higher levels of liquidity for investors and makes it easier to attract larger investors
- helps the startup achieve a higher valuation at launch.
These loans:
- are permissionless - there is no approval process. You just say you want one
- you do not need to pledge security i.e. give a second mortgage on your house.
- they are under collateralized
As time goes by these loans will become available for other purposes.
As far as pooling of investments (deposits), X7 allows you to do that and so do lots of other crypto projects.
Most people hear crypto and think currencies, but they provide the means to build significant businesses that I believe on day will replace many traditional businesses.
We already sit behind the Akami DDOS prevention system. I do not think cloudflare would be any more effective.
When I look at the server - I am seeing the same behavior I saw when the big Lemmy instances started upgrading to v18. And these recent problems started when they started upgrading to release candidates for v18.3 - So I think this is a Lemmy federation problem not DDOS attacks.
We have plenty of bandwidth - do not even coming close to using it all. When we have these problems I am seeing spikes in CPU usage (normally 10% but spikes to 150% when we see these issues) and Disk I/O.
We plan upgrading the version of Lemmy we are running this weekend to see if that makes a difference.
A good Linux community would be great.
If stuff is off topic, then say so and remove it. I do not think that is unreasonable.
I think you will find we have a pretty good crew here with an occasional troll to be dealt with.
We are still at the early stages of looking at Nostr, I would not hold back on account of that.
When you set up your own community, you become the moderator and define the rules in the community. You can add other moderators as you see fit.
At an instance level, I just monitor the reports that come in and make sure sure there is no child porn, etc.
Be smart about the subject lines that appear in the local feed as they effect the whole instance.
I would welcome you to set up and if any problems crop up we will deal with them then.
But you seen how we operate here. We try to censor as little as possible.
I got sucker punched by a few. Here is what happened.
I get a message from someone on a different instance saying they are setting up a community with similar interests to one I currently moderate. They ask if I can help get their community going by posting some of the things I currently post, which trying to be helpful I do.
Within a week or two, they are using those posts as an excuse for defederation because we are invading their instance.
I have learnt my lesson. Will not be so helpful in the future.
We are defederated from lemmy.juggler.jp till we find out what is going on.
I can see a lot of their users are being blocked by other instances.
Thanks for the heads up.
I just had a look at the posts they referenced.
Sadly I think it all comes down to politics. If those memes etc were about conservatives or conservative causes - I do not think they would have had a problem with them.
They mostly came from the same community - they could have easily just blocked that community - either as individual users or as an instance - but they chose to go the extreme censorship route.
I would just say be mindful when you post - your post can have consequences for all Exploding Heads users - good and bad.
When the government willy-nilly orders a wage increase like this one, the results can be chaotic. Obviously, to cover this 300 percent jump in labor costs, the customers will end up paying a lot more for their food. Where else will the money come from?
Ah, but once those food costs go up, fewer people will purchase this food, which hurts everyone, including the delivery drivers. After all, you can’t make $20 an hour without a job. My math could be off, but I’m pretty sure $7.09 an hour is better than no dollars an hour.
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I appreciate everything you do to help spread the word.