https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g

I think you have a problem, there needs to be more to be normal.

For me and my (very - it may be down to just me logging in, but a couple of the communities have a few people that read/vote) small instance it comes down to feel ("Don't be a dick"). Dave, the admin of lemmy.nz (about 80 users per week) has the same in their side board as their "Rule". Dave and I set up our *nz instances in the same week and we chat often. He might not be quire as quick with the ban hammer as I might be though.

When you are this small even a small outside problem can have huge effects on your instance

Well the documentation is very nice and filled out.

I think I'll spin up a test container for a project that my Mrs is starting on that I was going to put on wordpress with federation.

I would like to know the prompt/workflow for this.

It's a bit of a shame that the AI was having a hallucination or three with some of the body parts.

Bing: A bumblebee as a helicopter pilot, pollinating a field of wild flowers.

a photo of a model hearse made of wooden toothpicks, the hearse is very ornate in in a steampunk style

I don't read it as saying that there may be a simple solution? And I don't know how to attack the problem other that maybe a posable threat of distribution of material that could be classed as CSAM

Do I make a website pretending I’ve been doing this for years, then send out an email being like “Y consulting is now accepting new clients who use software X, check out some of our most popular custom reports, then fill out this form to get a quote for one of your own!” to just every person in the industry and hope someone actually reads the email?

As a site manager for a smallish international, pleas don't email me with "I am X, and can help you with Y". You will be thoroughly ignored.

I good website or blog with good info and a services available would be of more value to build a reputation, as @fubarx@lemmy.ml mentioned

Then all they need to do is spin up an instance of mastodon on any random VPS and scrape away if they really want to get the data.

But the 1,000,000 odd mastodon users would pale to their user base

I suspect that your instance attracts those sort of person, just trying to rattle someone :(

Knock, knock

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Want

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