@marathon@marathon yeah ofc! I might make a post breaking down everything at some point once I figure out exactly what I am going to do (not sure if I'm gonna leave #TheLemmyClub completely or not)
@marathon@marathon I mean...considering the mob who's started ganging up against him and the instance over me and my communities, and the fact that he's a commie, he's behaved surprisingly reasonably.
That said if I knew he was a commie I never would have joined, as a downfall like this would have been inevitable.
@marathon@marathon IIRC they were concerned that the content posted to Right Wing Videos specifically qualified as far right or alt right, so that community was removed. There's a thread about it but I'm too busy with work rn to share it.
I'm migrating away from that instance and will probably start posting from narwhal.city again. The admin is a commie and doesn't want to ban me because he doesn't think I'm alt right or far right, but probably would if he really had to. And plus he doesn't want his instance to be tilted to the right, which I can respect.
I will never understand why some Democrat elected politicians think that Democrat voters elected them to vote against the Democrats.
"The GOP are winning elections across the country by actually opposing their opponents? Let's do the exact opposite of that winning strategy for no apparent reason!"
> your thing clamps off the version string too early
What's a reasonable length? 32 characters on the biggest table in the DB seems like enough for a version string. That's enough for the default 7-character git suffix and a separator with 24 characters left over. People want to shove branch names and build flags in there, and if all of the instances max out the 32 characters, that's almost a meg (2^5 + 2^15) on the big-ass 31k-instance list at /instance. If I do 64, that's 2MB, plus a migration to widen it on the instance and instance_log tables.
Disk space is less of an issue (because it's just in my house now) but bandwidth is a bigger issue than it was (because it's just in my house now).
@p@fwc@i Yes, the real issue is the stupidly long version string with useless info, but I was thinking more in terms of UX than bandwidth. Truncating a version string at max chars looks weird in the UI, at least to me. That's how I got 50. It fits the stupid string, isn't that far from its length and also isn't as big as 64.
Another doable option would be to strip out the four digit number as I don't even know it's puprose, and only leave Pleroma Version-Commit-Branch.
My version string: Pleroma 2.9.1-480-g213b01a1-fluffytail-dev, is 42 characters for example.