Azura The Spellkissed

Why do you ask what “made it look like slop” instead of being honest about it?

That would be great. Though I’ve had that not work as expected at the beginning of 2026, but maybe you are right.

Note that you are likely leaking a list of all your subdomains in certificate transparency logs. Some users might not want that to happen, in that case using a wildcard certificate can help, but it’s either more tedious to set up (generating the cert outside of caddy) or less readable (using a Caddyfile with a single domain block for the wildcard containing a handle block per subdomains).

Not even sure which place you’re taking about or why you have to renounce citizenship.

I’m not saying that’s great news, but it doesn’t sound like the self destruction move that some OSS companies have done recently. I wouldn’t migrate away just because of that change. In the end, they have to find a sustainable mode of operation.

As always, people overreacting in the comments (of the linked forum). So the current plan is that the core remains OSS, but upcoming features are partially not. To me that sounds similar to Chrome’s or VSCode’s approach.

Ah, right its stored as (rather basic) html instead of markdown.

I love ghost’s UI and feature set.

What complex data format are you taking about? Last time I checked, it was plain markdown in a database (even supporting sqlite).

What I’d recommend though, is coupling it with a static site generator and only using the ghost server for the administration / authoring (guides). That way, serving the blog to visitors is basically free in terms of resources (at last as low as it gets). You could even push these static builds to a CDN (yes yes, selfhost community, I’m just saying it for completeness)

It might be some hassle to set this up somehow, but you could even have the container stopped unless you actively need it. You could even run the server application on your computer instead of the server, unless you want to access is from a smartphone/tablet.

If you really want an alternative to Ghost and don’t need user management and an online WYSIWYG editor, you could go straight to an SSG and feed itraw it markdown files.

Unless you plan on joining the app’s development effort: no I don’t think you can.

Probably because of Anubis protection. When the whole “AI scrapes the internet over and over so servers get flooded to death” (effectively an unintended DDoS attack) thing got wild, several websites incl image hosts enabled Anubis, which somewhat works in a browser, but often not so great in apps. Possibly it’s the apps fault for [not] setting the correct headers or whatever.

You can use crowdsec without a reverse proxy and just block offending IPs using a firewall. However, you can optionally configure a reverse proxy to enforce decisions made by crowdsec, e.g. by serving error pages or by serving captchas. See Remediation Components (formally “Bouncers”)

Buying second hand is only working up to a point is not sustainable if larger parts of the population did it. It also doesn’t magically solve issues with the items themselves, like smart TVs or cars (ffs?!?!) tracking you. I’m not sure how easy it is to find working, second hand dumb TVs nowadays.

There are two issues with ads: ad display (manipulation) and tracking (privacy invasion). You can easily get rid of the first problem, for the most part. The second one is to some degree also handled by ad blockers, but is to some degree very hard to completely escape. Not buying things new won’t automatically stop of tracking.

The most important one: Organize. In groups.

Bots can solve captchas more accurately and more efficiently than humans. For example, I use the browser extension Captcha Buster to solve Google Captchas for me. Nowadays websites instead use proof-of-work “captchas”, which require the visitors’ devices to solve cryptographic challenges (similar to bitcoin mining). This is why they sometimes takes a few seconds to complete (even more on low end smartphone / battery saving mode). But even those only slow down, not prevent bot access.

Yes, there’re definitely bots. If Lemmy is “full of” them off harder to tell and more subjective, but I’d say no. It’s more of an issue in the larger communities, less so in niche communities. There’s fundamentally no solution to this, regardless of the platform.