Those have been active for a few months now and usually get banned from most (non-ask) communities quite quickly.

What concerns me more is despite how obvious it is that they are bots, the posts often seem to get a lot of engagement from other accounts that are both human and some less obvious bots (or maybe lurkers).

Not yet, no. There is some preliminary work merged, but it doesn’t seem like it will fully arrive soon.

Uhm, you seem to really misunderstand why Lemmy is decentralized like it is and just want to replicate the terrible centralized communities found on Reddit.

It is no problem to find the right community for your interest right now. There are just overall not that many people using Lemmy. What you propose might seem benign in the short term, but will cause massive issue in the long run (see Reddit).

This tutorial seems to work for basic Iocaine, but the Nam-Shub of Enki part is failing here.

Also somehow Iocaine works for other websites here, but in front of Lemmy it currently fails. Not sure why.

Edit: of course right after writing this I find the error with Lemmy and it seems to be working 🤦

I sure hope LLMs are not used to develop Lemmy currently. Haven’t checked in a while, maybe I should do 🤔

But why a new Discord server? 🤦

I think this is one of the cases where it is called “lead”, but is actually tin. The photo looks very much like molten tin as well.

This is clearly made by some right-wing libertarian or similar nutcase.

This is a setting admins can change for both.

Despite what some other people falsely claim here in the comments, scraping is actually not the same at all as federation. Besides not being reciprocal, scraping puts considerably higher load on the server to the point where it brings down entire servers or at least severely degrades the performance for legitimate users.

Opensense is based on BSD, which has a single threaded network stack. This means that low end CPUs can struggle to do >1gbit throughputs. Depending on your WAN this could be an issue.

The speed of the CPU is entirely irrelevant to what I wrote 🤷

Maybe you have a smart-TV that is abused as a residential proxy? Many apps sell this to AI scrapers instead of or in addition to showing you ads.

Are you using a shady VPN or so? It is very unlikely that lemmy.ml defaults to difficulty 6 for all visitors. There is likely something that makes your connection look shady so that you get pre-sorted to the bad pile.

Why would I follow a feed of what appears to be made of pictures that are mostly AI slop?

There is apparently an incredible amount of manipulation and legal fights happening around these reviews on Google maps, so that is probably a minefield any independent open-source developer should avoid.

Sure, but the point of getting a mini-pc is usually not that you have an open case with a second ATX PSU sitting on top to power some extra hardrives.

How will you power the drives?

And from what I have heard, these m2 to SATA adapters have over-heating issues.

You mean “mid” as in midi-tower? Because that sounds like the large version. Well maybe there is an even larger workstation version or so, but the normal medium sized Optiplex comes with one 3.5" SATA bay and one DVD drive.

Optiplex etc. with an Intel 8th gen “T” chips seem to offer the best bang for the buck + energy efficiency on the second hand market right now.

The main issue with these thin clients is the lack of SATA ports and power connections for them if you want to add some larger 2.5” SSD/HDD storage. Usually it is only one, but you can also use the DVD drive slot with an adapter in the mid sized versions.