Ouch, that’s definitely way out of date and has several critical bugs in it that are unpatched.

I brought the spam issue from that instance to the attention of the admins for LW, they’re going to take a look into it. Will keep an eye out for more spamming today.

I’m not actually sure how that works. If LW defederates does it block all users from that instance from posting? I would guess “yes” in that I believe the instance the community is hosted on plays a role in tracking posts to that community. If you’re curious, I would definitely ask one of the dev communities.

Will leave up for a little since I’m sure a lot of other people saw the barrage of spam from last night. Should be all cleaned up now.

Also, I do believe that is a legit instance, so it’s not likely it’ll be defederated, they’re likely a victim of the spammers as much as we are here… they just need to delete those accounts and block those IPs.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Couldn’t agree more with this. I just use a Roku set top box with all my TVs and never even connect the TVs to the internet.

I'll bet they wrote that proposal expecting to be rejected for any kind of grant and then were laughing all the way to the laboratory after hearing it was granted.

It's the 5th most hit site globally, it's going nowhere.

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/

Rumble is free to upload videos to. I haven't uploaded to Vimeo in a while, so I'm not as sure on that one. I believe the paid tiers for Rumble are just for commercial accounts to use to display videos with no ads and they also unlock streaming.

Same, would have definitely checked them out. Sounds like they did a really bad job at getting the word out there that they even existed.

I've been using duckduckgo instead of Google for a few years now and love it. I've gotten used to the shortcuts in it now and probably couldn't go back if I wanted to haha

Lol, you got me there :P

Thanks! Will take a look.

I use Apple Maps. In theory, it’s not tracking me. I guess I have no way to prove that, but at least they’re on the record saying they anonymize the data from it and don’t correlate routes to people.

Edit: here is some more info, took a second to find the link.

Both rumble and vimeo will work as alternatives. Rumble has been easier to use for me, but I’d check them both out for sure.