Lemm.ee basically doesn't defederate anything. You should probably go to an instance that defederates those instances.

Keep in mind that user-level instance blocks are not the same as instance-level defederations. AFAIK, it only blocks the communities. You'll still see comments and posts from that instance in other communities and that instance will still influence your feed with their votes.

It is better to go to an instance that defederates or to convince your current admin to defederate.

At least use TOML if you like ini, there is no ini spec but TOML can look quite similar.

It is also just a convention to use ASCII for usernames in many platforms.

That's only true for platforms that only caters to the English speaking world. The fediverse should be and is much broader than that.

ASCII is also supported out of the box in major OSes while some unicode characters might not.

What? There is no major OS that does not support Unicode out of the box.

Percent encoding is perfectly fine and users won't even see it.

Also please stop down voting twice with your alt accounts, that's not cool.

No thanks, I’ll be staying with datastruct.nextState() rather than const nextState = prevState.nextState()

You can easily do the first option in Rust, you just use the mut keyword. That's it, nothing more than that. And you'll find that you quite rarely have to do that, and when you do it, it's actually quite a useful signal to be aware of, since mutability sometimes means a bit more surprising data changes.

I wouldn't even call that a functional feature, that's just the language being based on expressions and bool having a then method. It's more object-oriented in that sense if anything tbh

I really think you should give Rust a chance. It is not a functional language, like Haskell. Haskell is a hardcore purely functional language. Rust is not a purely functional language - instead it just borrows a few features and ideas from functional langauges. It also borrows ideas from object-oriented languages and it is inspired by C++ in some aspects (or has at least learned from C++, I guess you could say).

Could you maybe elaborate what it is about the functional ideas in Rust you don't like? I really only see them as benefits - Rust is like the best of both worlds. The good stuff from functional and the good stuff from object-oriented.

The problem with classes is inheritance. Inheritance is just a bad idea and a bad way to structure stuff if you ask me.

Rust fixes this neatly with traits that basically provide the same benefits as classes without any of the downsides.

Sorry but immutable by default just makes sense. When you start coding Rust you'll see how rarely you actually need to use the mut keyword. It's quite rare actually.

The number of users is not really what drives costs honestly. Or at least, it's not like a linear relationship. I think actually having many popular communities might be a bigger issue.

About 62 USD per month. I post monthly finance updates. All the costs are covered by user donations so far :)

It might be possible to do it cheaper, but I feel I got a good deal for some very high end hardware so this setup should be scalable going forward for a long time.

I was kinda baffled by this too. I like the general idea that they present (you need to pay your own long-tenured engineers higher than market rate cause they actually know more about your own system), but this idea of a formula? What, are you gonna start counting git commits? A formula sounds like a super weird way to solve that problem.

Just look at the engineers that add value in your company and pay them a fair market rate. When someone leaves, find out what salary they get in the new job and ensure all your remaining engineers get at least that amount and adjust as you go along. Something like that perhaps.