Proxying is a separate option from caching. I think it was added in 0.19.5

There are many games@ and gaming@ communities lol

I haven't tried comparing their activity levels recently, I'm just subscribed to a bunch.

WINEDLLOVERRIDES

I was really trying to figure out what "WINE DL LOVER RIDES" meant...

It's way easier to notice and defed when you can see these fake usernames

You can set a Lemmy server to proxy image requests

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, if instances with downvoting disabled become popular

Personally I think downvoting is important, it's like micro-moderation, in a democratic fashion. Sure it doesn't always work out well, but it can be good for keeping spam and malicious posts at the bottom.

I used to have this clipart program lol

Could someone remind me what it's called?

maybe you could say "powered by Lemmy"? "part of the Lemmy network"?

as far as identity, I think for lemmy.world it's the same answer as Reddit's identity? which is a good thing, there's a bunch of instances that are slight variations on that identity and that's cool

I don’t think Lemmy has it (there is an open issue for invitation links that I don’t believe anyone has worked on).

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1777

but admins can do it in the signup application questionnaire and just keep track with a spreadsheet

Do Lemmy, Mastodon and the other big fediverse projects already support invite-based registration using codes?

you could just put the invite code into the signup application questionnaire, a server admin can make it say "Invite code here:"

the admins could keep a spreadsheet of the invite codes like in Google Sheets, keep track of who was given the invite code and who received it

For an invite-only Fediverse server to be especially attractive, it needs to have some reason why access to that server specifically is more desirable than going to any of the tens (hundreds?) of alternative servers that offer literally exactly the same thing. Unless they start adding features the others can’t provide (which is close to impossible in an open-source project), what’s the benefit?

Most people don't even know about Lemmy or the Fediverse lol, you basically trick them into thinking it's something exclusive and then they join, that's a success

I think when you give the invite don't say "Lemmy" just say the name of the server