I also did not know of him at all. I did know who Ben Shapiro is. This week has been an educational one: I have learned about Nick Fuentes and 'groypers', Candace Owens, and that the change my mind meme guy is called Steven Crowder (I first thought it was this guy when I saw the video of Kirk).

The US political commentator that I do watch some times is Hasan, but not too often. The US lore goes too deep and moves too quickly, hard to keep up.

I do take your feedback and other's seriously. I have looked into it and I also have my concerns about the fit, so I will talk to them.

If there is an example of mod abuse, a user report can lead to me taking direct action without contacting anyone. But a bad fit is not an emergency, we can talk and resolve it that way.

Following that same logic I suppose it’s okay for anti-vaxxers, fruitians, naturopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists and conspiracy theorists to also join the team if they dedicate enough effort towards it.

If they have positive/valuable interactions with members of the community, enforce the rules fairly, follow the rules, etc... Yes, I don't mind.

In this case, the moderator thinking that eating exclusively meat is healthy is not the reason why I think they might not be a good fit to mod that community.

The user should be a commentator not a moderator,

I think so too

backgrounds are important to consider in predicting how they will shape the community

I do not disagree with you on this. When I said:

I am quite receptive to specific reports of specific actions, but I am not going to micro-manage users or mods and make assumptions/predictions about potential future behavior.

I am not saying that the background is not important. I am talking about delegation. The people who create communities and moderate them own them, not me. I (admin level) am not micro-managing the decisions of the community builders and running background checks on users. I respond to reports. In this case, I was responding to the user that tagged me, letting them know that I am alert and ready to respond to reports of mod abuse.

This is a disappointing response that will cause a schism in the community as I don’t want people like RFK Jr. anywhere near positions of power when it comes to health.

Why would it be disappointing? This is the drama community! Schism in the community is what we live for!!

No, but, really. Sorry to disappoint you, and I do appreciate you being attentive to the community and bringing this up.

Hmmm - after changing these settings to what I think are reasonable settings, the server crashed and I am now getting 'Too many requests' messages.... So, perhaps there is something not working so well with these rate limits, or I am still misunderstanding their meaning.

The error I see is a "bad image format" response from the PlantNet API. I zoomed in, took a screenshot, and re-uploaded it to imgur and it worked.

From the FAQ: " The ideal image size is 800 pixels for the small side, or otherwise 1280 pixels for the large side. "

This image is 259x194, so I think that is why it is rejected.

I used to it eat a lot of it as a child. But now that I think more about nutrition it is a rare treat for me. I don't buy it nor keep any at my home, because if I buy it I'll eat it. If I go out and eat fries I'll usually eat them with mayonnaise. I do like the taste, especially in egg sandwiches.

Thanks. Rebooted the server... Need to find some more permanent solution.

Ah, cool! I got my 4 devices today and I have managed to play with them a bit. They are pretty cool! I was able to walk over to a park near my house and spoke with people across the world with no data in my phone :D

Yeah, I found out only after choosing that domain name... This TLD also gets penalized by the automatic e-mail spam detectors (like SpamAssassin). I wouldn't pick the ".xyz" TLD if I were picking today 😅

Personally I use E27 PAR (38 degrees) LED lamps, 17 watt power. I have a mix of 3000 K and 4000 K. The reason for these specific lamps is that I found them at a discount and so I bought a large amount. It is nice that they are somewhat directional, so I can aim them at specific plants.

I have a few different ways of hanging the lights by the plants. Most recently, I have set up a rack this way:

The E27 clamps I bought 12 off Ali-Express: https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/4000793927858.html

The rack is a simple light weight plastic rack that I found in a discount store for $12.

I'm not sure about Web Hosting. Many of us use a dedicated virtual private server (VPS)

I use https://serverspace.io, I think Lemmy.ml is hosted with https://www.hetzner.com/

These are servers that you access via SSH and can install the instance inside of it. I personally install using docker compose, but there are some other methods that are claimed to be easier. The cost starts at ~$5 / month. Currently I pay about $15 / month. You would then rent the domain name from a domain name registrar (I use namecheap.com) and ask them to point the domain name to your server's IP address.

Woah - TIL about wheels!

Well, good thing that you prepared well in advance and have already built a nice alternative.

Reddit is done