Yeah, I've gone over 24 hours now without it occurring... but not calling it "fixed" until at least a week.
I used it as my phone ringtone for years. It is permanently burned into my brain.
I've been seeing similar since upgrading to 0.18. Upgraded to 0.18.1-rc.9 yesterday... haven't seen it reoccur again.... yet.
Here is an example I happened to be at my PC for:
I have no intention of every placing ads on aussie.zone. Should finances ever become an issue, I'll send up a 🚩 with a stickied post.
For now, finances are fine 🙂
I was speaking in general terms, there is currently no "delete oldest content" functionality in lemmy, so far as I know. But yes I imagine it would simply mean that for any older non-local content, users would need to initiate a pull from its home instance somehow.
On the point of being unsustainable I disagree. Instances will need to find an equilibrium between cost/expense and retention of old content. The higher the revenue/cost tolerance, the older the content that can be retained. I expect most instances will end up purging non-local content after an amount of time, but retain local content as long as possible. Maybe I'm naive, but I have confidence that people smarter than me will come up with systems to do this. It may result in a usenet style setup where instances boast about their retention periods.
On your second point re: community contributions, I agree entirely. I've been very fortunate that there have been some generous donations from aussie.zone users, so I'm not worried about server costs at this point. Server costs will go up as data volumes increase, that is unavoidable. How the community decides to handle this in the future is the real question, based on what I've experienced so far I'm confident we'll be around for a long time to come.
I wish I knew.. I've seen the behavior you've described, but others tell me it doesn't happen.
I agree, watched it the other night not expecting much due to RT rating etc. But it had more character development than most blockbusters, story was ok... if not a little predictable, effects were decent, and it had a good sense of humour. Well worth a watch... just don't go in expecting something worthy of an oscar.
Streaming providers are known to have different bitrates in different regions.
A classy response to a less than classy move.
On 0.18.1-rc.10 the defederated instances are at the very bottom, not on the right hand side.