I’ll use datum planes rather than drawing directly on object faces

I haven’t had a chance to try FreeCAD, but this is generally good advice in other parametric CAD tools, too. Create “skeleton” features early on (planes, datums, simple sketches) and define later features by referencing the skeleton as much as possible. It avoids creating a long chain of feature dependencies where Feature A changes and breaks Feature B, which breaks Feature C, etc.

I like Sky Map. Originally developed by Google, open-sourced in 2012.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Map

It varies greatly depending on your setup.

Lemmy.world’s monthly expenses are around €1,200. Though that includes hosting more services that just Lemmy.
https://blog.mastodon.world/

For comparison, it looks like £30 per month for lemmy.zip:
https://lemmy.zip/post/7766703

And lemmy.ca is around CAD$30 per month:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/39134

At one point Reddthat.com was considering moving to a bigger server that would cost A$150-200 per month:
https://reddthat.com/post/8840079

Some of those instance names are, uh, interesting.

I think GDP in this case, but yeah, same idea. It makes sense that wealthy countries with good infrastructure are going to be high on the list.

Country (nominal GDP rank)
USA (1)
France (7)
Germany (4)
Japan (3)
Finland (47)
Canada (9)
Netherlands (18)
Russia (8)
UK (6)

High-GDP countries that are notably missing are China (2, users are limited by the Great Firewall) and India (5, still building their infrastructure).

I wonder why Finland is so high on the list? Good for them, regardless.

Tangentially related: if you see something that needs to be addressed now, like CSAM or gore, notify an instance admin via Matrix. That tool can send push notifications, so you’re more likely to get a prompt response. Some instances also have public Matrix chats you can use.

You can find the Matrix account info for Lemmy users by clicking the “Send Secure Message” button in a user’s profile.

Thanks for the info! I didn’t know any apps could do that.

Using a browser (not a phone app) go to the instance’s main page and look for the Communities button. That will give you a list of communities. Filtering by Local lists all the communities on that instance.

Here are some examples:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/communities
https://sh.itjust.works/communities

Viewing a Lemmy account’s posts from Mastodon seems to work. Going the other way, viewing a Mastodon account’s toots from Lemmy, does not work.

Pixelfed can see Lemmy and Mastodon accounts, but it does not show the posts or comments from those accounts. The reverse is also true: Lemmy and Mastodon can see Pixelfed accounts but not their content.

At least these were my results the last time I experimented with cross-platform interaction. Maybe there are some tricks I have not learned yet.

For anyone unaware of the the spam issue mentioned in the link, it has been ongoing for a week. Some person or group is generating accounts on open Mastodon instances and spamming crap all over. My instance’s admin bot caught two three new spam accounts while I was typing this post. I know admins at other instances have put similar protections in place.

If you haven’t seen the spam, thank your mods and admins!

Agreed!

This looks like the major driver of the project, IMO. The Sublinks roadmap is full of feature ideas geared toward better moderation, both at the community and instance level.

It’s ultimately under the umbrella of ideologies that support and prop up capitalism.

I think that’s a good summary.

“Classical liberalism” is basically what modern libertarians want: a laissez-faire capitalist economy, a secular representative government with very limited powers, prioritizing individual freedom over collective well-being, etc.

In my part of the world “liberalism” is now commonly used to refer to a different set of priorities: creating economic safety nets, regulating business, promoting universal healthcare, unions, gender equality, racial equality, etc. Though capitalism and a secular representative government are still part of the mix.

Prior to June 2023, Lemmy was holding steady around 1,000 monthly active accounts. So it’s still up more than 30x from that baseline.

Since this graph shows active accounts and not active users, I’ll bet a significant contributor to the drop is people not using all the alt accounts they initially created.

And the mods usually leave a comment so you know why your post/comment was removed or your account banned. It’s a nice system.

Someone linked it in a comment a few months ago, and I happened to bookmark it.

Here are a few other sites that might be interesting:

• https://the-federation.info/platform/73
• https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map

When viewing an instance’s main page in a web browser, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on “Instances”. That will show all instances federated with, or blocked by, the given instance.

I’m not sure I can answer your other questions, though you might be interested in https://fba.ryona.agency. It will let you enter an instance and see who is blocking it. For example, here are the instances blocking my home instance, sh.itjust.works: https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=sh.itjust.works

Thanks bot, but I did that intentionally.

Here’s an example. Say you want to visit the Engineering community on sh.itjust.works. The community lives at this URL:
https://sh.itjust.works/c/engineering

However, you are using an account at lemm.ee. In order to post or comment you need to access the community via lemm.ee, which means using this URL:
https://lemm.ee/c/engineering@sh.itjust.works

Going to the first URL is accessing the community directly.
Going to the second URL is accessing the community through your local instance. lemm.ee fetches the contents of the community and saves a local copy for you (and for all the other lemm.ee users). Any posts or comments you make get synced back to the community.

Edit: If you are using Lemmy through a smartphone app then don’t worry about this distinction. The app is taking care of this for you and always accessing everything through your local instance.

lemmy.world reports monthly expenses around €1,200 per month, but they’re also running multiple other services for that expense. Those costs are all covered by donations.

Smaller Lemmy instances are much less expensive. I’ve seen admins comment that they pay anywhere from $40 to $300 per month.