From a real-world perspective, I suspect that the headskirts were originally created to avoid creating a full head prosthetic for guest actors. Once the character of Quark was created, the cost of a reusable full head prosthetic would have been less prohibitive.

Your suspicion is correct. Several behind the scenes videos and past producers have confirmed this as the main reason. Not only cost, but time needed to do the full head makeup.

Welcome to lemmy! So far my experience has also been wonderful. Just remember it’s our responsibility to keep things this way. It could quickly go a different direction, where all the kind and amazing people get drowned out.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

But in all seriousness, this is a setting for the Lemmy web UI.

Two seconds later: “DON’T TOUCH MY BELLY!”

Isn’t having cats wonderful?

For the most part I personally have not witnessed any bad behavior or trolls. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air, and people seem genuinely happy to be here. I hope it stays that way.

BUT…

Have a look at the mod log on any instance. It’s a public log of moderator actions and gets federated along with everything else.

Definitely some people getting banned for the usual reasons. People will be people. 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://hakbox.social/modlog (may contain NSFW material).

Check out the iOS lemmy app: mlem (you can get into the BETA via TestFlight).

If you are on Android, I hear the app to use is Jerboa.

Also, the join-lemmy.org site has a list of apps now!

https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

Sorry, let me clarify. My point was that I hope Ruud doesn’t have to start shelling out thousands of dollars because everyone decides to register there and he needs to keep increasing capacity.

It was in the 500-600 range a few hours ago. It’s really happening

This can't be real... what the hell are they thinking?

Real devs do it in prod!

I’m seriously tempted to write some performance tests in jmeter, locust, or k6, and fire up some live traffic simulations / simulated load against my lemmy instance to see what happens. But at the same time that would feel too much like work and I don’t want to work over the weekend.

A “transfer my community” feature that allowed an entire community to be moved between instances would certainly help. That’s a great idea.

From what I’ve seen so far looking through the Postgres db, every instance has data from most other instances. I see users in my local Postgres db from other instances. So, theoretically moving a community from one instance to another could be as simple as changing a few values in the database. Of course in practice it’s never that simple. 😀

Probably beehaw or lemmy.world, although a lot of instances are getting new users.