I'd vote for number 5

You don't have much choice in this case. Some instances will either not receive your account deletion request or just ignore it. Some instances might not even understand the deletion request. You can try contacting the admin of each instance, but I'm not sure whether you'd like to spend weeks contacting the admins of thousands of instances.

I sent a PM regarding this. Hopefully they'll respond and cross post the AMA post to other communities.

edit:

Hi!

Thanks for noticing us for the concerns about lemmy.ml.

Unfortunately, it's a bit late to cross-post it now (We didn't ask to these specific communities for the AMA and we would need to check different links, I guess).

There are still a lot of Mastodon servers federated with Lemmy.ml so that can be a way to reach this AMA anyway.

We'll think about lemmy.ml concerns for the next time!

Thanks again!

Well. I guess y'all have to wait for another AMA.

Nope. Iirc you can self host it to pay using your fictional currency, but currently noone other than switzerland is actually using it. Europe was considering it, so you'll see what happens in 2027/2028.

If you are in germany, The GLS bank will be inviting people to test it: https://www.gls.de/taler

Running an actively used Peertube instance is a lot more expensive than, for example, a Lemmy instance. Videos take up a lot more storage than text. Not only that, the videos also need to be processed and then served. Who will keep paying for the monthly server bills?

Then there's monetization. Most YouTube creators are there because they make a living out of YouTube. There is no such thing on PeerTube. They would need to solely rely on donations.

The ideal PeerTube network would be where every somewhat big content creator ran their own instance and maybe a few general instances for smaller content creators that are regularly donated to.

If YouTube ever gets killed by Google, don't expect many people to come here.

What took them so long?

No, it is not weird. Scaled, according to the docs, is like Hot, but less active communities' posts get a boost.

Edit: here's a bit more detail

The exact function to calculate the scaled rank is this one:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION scaled_rank (score numeric, published timestamp with time zone, users_active_month numeric)
    RETURNS float
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- Add 2 to avoid divide by zero errors
    -- Default for score = 1, active users = 1, and now, is (0.1728 / log(2 + 1)) = 0.3621
    -- There may need to be a scale factor multiplied to users_active_month, to make
    -- the log curve less pronounced. This can be tuned in the future.
    RETURN (hot_rank (score, published) / log(2 + users_active_month));
END;

The hot rank is calculated like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION hot_rank (score numeric, published timestamp without time zone)
    RETURNS integer
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- hours_diff:=EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc',now()) - published))/3600
    RETURN floor(10000 * log(greatest (1, score + 3)) / power(((EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc', now()) - published)) / 3600) + 2), 1.8))::integer;
END;

So they most likely were set up beforehand, huh. I wonder what the motive behind this nicole spam even is.

The spammer is watching the threads here and is changing stuff accordingly. If we assume there are two spammers, the first one is doing it for attention? And the second one is now trying to scare us? To make people leave the Fediverse, perhaps? Interesting stuff. Though as OP said, the second one is most likely a troll. It just doesn't feel that "serious".

The bots are from those two instances as you can see in the screenshot. Furthermore, lemmy.doesnotexist.club has had dozens of bots since at least 2023 (2 years after domain creation. found via the web archive). Since at least 2023, the admin hasn't been doing anything, or even interacting with anyone. That account seems pretty much dead. But they keep hosting the instance for some reason. It is also a possibility that someone else indeed is using these two instances because they are "abandoned", but it is highly likely that it is the admin. It is very suspicious that the registrations have been open unguarded against bots since at least 2023. These two instances have been invaded with bots long ago, so defederation is still the right thing to do.

I also don't want to jump to conclusions, but I think the chances are pretty high that it indeed is the admin. It might lead us to whoever is behind the recent nicole spam.

Rust is a programming language.

Flatpak with more improvements to size and sandboxing could be accepted as the standard packaging format in a few years. I think sandboxing is a very important factor as Linux distros become more popular.

Relevant discussion: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818