patrick

How much money do you donate to your ad-free lemmy instance? Or the rest of the free services you’re using?

For the vast majority of people, that number is $0.

That’s cool. Personally I just integrated it into my normal chat client by connecting Aichat, which supports a ton of backends including Ollama and hosted options, with Matrix.

Blog post with more info https://jackson.dev/post/chaz/

PieFed has implemented Topics, which are groups of communities maintained by the instance admin. I think they plan to make topics per user at some point.

See https://piefed.social/topics

It’s definitely instance dependent. I run the servers for my instance at the closest Hetzner data center to myself (west coast USA) for latency reduction and over-size/engineer it for better perf.

My instance is open for registration too, if anybody reading here would find that useful.

That is a lot of effort to go through to avoid using a VPN.

Yea, too many people won’t realize that they are just the on-call person fixing it.