@graf@Appalachian_Crusader@WhiteAmericanEskimo how does one "bump" on Pleroma? Is Poa.st on Pleroma mainly or do you guys also run on Mastodon and other frontends? I avoided Mastodon because it seems resource hungry, plus everyone seems ready to ban for divergent thoughts or unpopular ideas. I'm more into the wild west of free speech personally.
I'm kind of doing this as a hobby for now but I wouldn't mind growing a little. Bless you for this information. There are so many aspects that can't be easily read about but you have to learn from others. Hopefully you don't mind if from time to time I ask some random questions here and there. Maybe I can compile some knowledge in the future to help new instances get better as well so I pay the assistance forward.
@graf@Appalachian_Crusader@WhiteAmericanEskimo I use Cloudflare for my instance. Can that cause issues with other instances? I just started my instance so sorry if that is a pretty noobish question.
@nyanide@icedquinn@ax3 yes, can confirm it can be complex. I just started this adventure myself and it was harder than I imagined and even then, when you get a instance up, you can end up like me where you kind of feel like you are just posting into the void because you have almost no followers =/
@lina Europe is cucked by the United States, so I doubt this is the real reason. It is more like short-term thinking caused by capitalism makes people seek profit at the expense of societal wellbeing. Society reduces its reproduction rate to compensate, which becomes a downward spiral to the bottom of the barrel.
The domestic workers are too expensive for companies competing in a global market so they import foreign workers they treat and pay worse than native born citizens.
@sun@genmaicha so my profile picture is something I made locally. I will post teaser of other stuff I've made. I will be branching out with some of my output generations. My initial focus was making hyper realistic females so if you see a common theme between my outputs that is why. I figured those are some of the harder ones to get down correctly so I figured if I could make good quality ones that I would have a easier time when it came time to generate other subjects.
@sun@genmaicha 100%! I really don't like these closed-source ones. I'll be posting some of my locally produced A.I. soon. I also use Suno, but I want to start making locally produced A.I. music too. There are some good animation A.I. platforms that offer free credits too. Unfortunately with animation, it is hard to avoid using some of the closed source stuff because it is hard to match the quality since animations are so resource hungry to produce. I can make locally produced animations but the resolution is no where near as much as the online paid platforms.
@splitshockvirus or anyone else that can help. Does anyone know how to accurately configure the Pleroma mailer? I can send people invite links, I can create test accounts, but when it comes to email verifications or resetting passwords through email, nothing seems to work. I never receive anything through email. I'm just using test Gmail accounts I'm making. I used the following settings but no success...
I've gotten everything else successfully up in my instance by myself by looking at Youtube videos and reading some blogs. Everything is working fine in a VirtualBox VM of Linux Mint Xfce but I can't get over this last bump in the road.