An optional field was added to the userdb to allow storing birthdate. That’s it.

The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of California, Colorado, and Brazil.

This is the same record that already holds basic user metadata like realName, emailAddress, and location. The field stores a full date in YYYY-MM-DD format and can only be set by administrators, not by users themselves.

An optional field in the userdb JSON object. It’s not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it’s standardized iff [sic] people want to store the date there, but it’s entirely optional.

–Lennart Poettering

https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/

I closed it up and made it a private development instance last year, but you basically just described Dubvee.

Far left crazies and far right crazies are removed with equal prejudice, though the far right is much rarer (and often just trolls). Regardless, it’s moderated here to a, well, moderate temperature. We also don’t federate with the Triad (Hexbear, Grad, and .ml) as well as a few other instances (one of them a big instance that throws an error on a calculator) that are centered around and encourage identity politics (another source of what you’re describing in your post).

Even though we’re “closed” I still keep the instance running in order to develop the Tesseract UI, and if you want to try out the kind of space that’s curated here, I would be willing to approve your application. I’ve toyed with the idea of re-launching and seeking out another admin or 3, but haven’t had the time to put much thought into it.

TL;DR is I’ve always tried to run Dubvee as “normie friendly” and cut out some of the more, uh, rabid parts of the fediverse, and if you want to try it out, I’d be willing to allow it.

https://dubvee.org/signup

Lemmy-UI is also an “app”.

FWIW, many “apps” are just web apps

It (lemmy) still showed me as subscribed but I had to un- and re-subscribe before I would get content again.

In theory, only one person on the instance would need to do that to resume federation. However, everyone subscribed should unjoin/re-join to be safe in case that one person later unsubscribes since the sending instance would only “know” about that one subscriber otherwise.

Hard to tell, really. It sounds like the people who have copies aren’t even aware of it, so they may still exist somewhere waiting to be discovered in an estate sale or something.

If it was a bit later in time, we might have had someone like Marion Stokes with at least VHS copies of the broadcasts.

Technically speaking, I invented vaping.

In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you’d normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).

My group’s product was a weight-loss product called “FlavorAir” (“Anorexia Fast” didn’t test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.

This was in the early 00’s and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.

I’m not a fan of crossposting since is clutters up my post history, but feel free to.

While I totally understand those communities, my preference is to not relegate anything that isn’t rage to a special community since it distills regular news down to just the rage. Just my personal preference.

I’m beyond tired of the Tr*mp Rage Show Spectacular, so here’s some uplifting news for y’all.

RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.

Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I’ve happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.

I honestly think that’s my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.

I haven’t had time to build out or promote the community, so there’s only one post right now, but this would be perfect for !totallylookslike@dubvee.org if you had a side-by-side image.

I would recommend bringing this up with the lemmy.zip admins.

Only thing I can suggest, if you’re willing to use a different client, is to try their Tesseract UI instance (https://t.lemmy.zip/). You can at least filter the Zippybot account so its posts are minimized. Find a post from it, click its username, and then “Filter User…”

The upcoming release has much more powerful filtering options (e.g. you can completely hide zippybot, among other capabilities) but it’s not generally available yet. Hoping to have it released “soon”.

Speaking from recent experience, the smaller thing can, and often does, turn into a larger thing all on its own and always at the worst time.

For the last 3 years, I knew my water heater was on its last legs. I kept putting it off until two Saturdays ago I had a wet basement and no hot water. The kick in the ass was that it wasn’t that hard to replace the unit: 2 hours of labor to install and 2 hours to drain, remove, and clean around the old one. Cost me just under $650 including same day delivery which was awesome because I would have had to rent a truck and drafted someone to help me load/unload it otherwise.

So my advice is when you allocate time to address the small problem, give yourself double that in case it turns into a bigger project. It’s always easier to deal with big stuff when it’s not a surprise.

Can’t link to the posts directly to demonstrate since the spoiler overlay is only shown in the feed. It’s assumed if you click into the post you want to see the spoiler. I suppose I could change that, but the behavior aligns with how the NSFW tag works.

To give an example of how it works in the feed, here’s a search link that should work (it’s what I used to make the post screenshot): https://tesseract.dubvee.org/search?type=All&q=posts%3A[spoiler]

Im guessing like abcd [spoiler] efg would trigger it too?

Correct. While that wouldn’t turn into a flair (only [flair text] at the beginning or end of the title will be used as flairs), it will trigger the spoiler overlay if [spoiler] appears anywhere in the title. I did this consciously to account for inconsistencies in some of the spoiler usage I’ve seen. It could easily be changed to only trigger on actual flairs (at the beginning or end of the title).

Second this. Everything I have runs on Debian or OpenWRT.

I applaud you for not asking people to stop enshittifying the definition of “enshittification”. I wouldn’t have had the restraint.

This is why I would die: Under no circumstances would I abandon my dogs. They are literally little furry family members.

And I’m not exaggerating. I’ve hunkered down during tornadoes, blizzards with no power/heat, and other weather events where I should have sought shelter elsewhere (most don’t accept pets, and I couldn’t make it to the nearest friends house to crash there).