I can’t speak to NZ, but even a normal tank dehumidifier should have the option for a drain line. It’ll usually be a hose fitting hidden above/behind where the tank sits, so you can run a line to whatever household drain is nearby. And if it doesn’t already have a fitting, it’s usually pretty simple to add one.
It can make placement a hassle since you need to be near a drain, but you’ll barely need to touch it beyond setup. It’s a huge upgrade from dumping the tank constantly.
This feels like a gross overreaction to the situation. Sure, I don’t love the fact that TD has a tiny presence here, but I fail to see how that should be cause to defed a large instance. Especially when that community just popped up recently, only came to anyone’s attention in the last day or so, and (to my knowledge) hasn’t caused any real trouble other than the Agora mod vote thread getting a bit spicy.
I’m sure it’s something we’ll need to address internally, but it’s just one item on that list. And for now, it seems like a low priority item.
So far, we have a captcha on account creation now and it seems to be working (from what I’ve seen, anyway)
It’ll be a tough balancing act though. Relatively frictionless sign-up has been great for us, and anything that deals with bots will also affect that. Whatever else we may end up doing will need to be carefully considered.
I don’t even really think about it, I just comment if I have something to say. At worst, nobody reads it and I was shouting into the void for a minute.
But the Lemmy userbase isn’t massive yet, so those week+ old posts still see more engagement than you’d think.
And to make matters annoying, restarting the service that causes the sorting bug can trigger some other bugs (federation errors iirc). So there isn’t a “right” answer until the real fix comes.
Archive.org is also doomed, I’ve seen to that one personally.
Because of federation, I just didn’t think about it too hard. I clicked on Sh.itjust.works because the name made me giggle when I saw it, and signed up immediately because the first post I saw was the boss sharing server stats and being totally transparent about operations and intentions. At the time, it was one of the smaller instances that might not last.
Choosing “wrong” never seemed like a big deal, it’s not hard to start fresh somewhere else if needed.
Lemmings is fun, but it also has decades of being used as an insult to contend with. I do hope it catches on, but I’m trying to stick to the boring/generic “users” until then.
You’d think that, but we’re solidly in the “second tier” of popularity. Last I looked we were something like 5th most active users, 8th most total users among instances that are making that data available.
It’s crazy that there are so any users already, but not a surprise. This kind of transparency is exactly what a lot of us were looking for, and it’s the recipe for a thriving community going forward.
The “no porn” thing may upset some folks, but it makes sense. Porn can be a moderation (and liability) minefield, especially opening the floodgates right away. It could be a net-benefit at some point in the future, but until then it’s easy enough to create an account on another instance that wants to take the heat.
And for what it’s worth regarding the financial side, donations feel like the way to go. With everything Reddit is doing right now, and other platforms have done in the past, “outside money” is becoming the harbinger of doom for online communities. Plenty of us would be happy to pitch in to keep it in house, especially when you post those sexy resource graphs that would show exactly where our money is going.
The honest answer is that we’re still trying to get The Agora running, and a backlog developed in the process. We are working on it, it’s just going to take some time to sort through the old votes. We’ve been focused on cleaning up the process so we don’t have this problem moving forward.