Hi I’m DraconicNEO, I have an interest in Linux and retro computing and I also play on the SDF minecraft server. I learned about SDF back in August 2023 when I found out about this Lemmy instance and I joined soon after.

Check out my webpage for more info about me.

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Joined 2 years ago
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Cake day: September 17th, 2023

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  • What the fuck? Why? Why block Blahaj of all instances? That really doesn’t inspire confidence in this server or SDF. I can understand blocking instances like lemmygrad or hexbear, but blahaj? Seriously? Why?

    I’m glad they reversed it, but why was it done in the first place?

    @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org Can you please explain? I really want to know the reasoning behind such a decision to block specifically lemmy.blahaj.zone, was it a bug with something automated? Something prompted by suspicious behavior from them? Please explain.

    If you don’t want to explain publicly you may shoot me a message at matrix or to my SDF email. I just want to know.


  • We is members of SDF, and I don’t really believe that. But even if it were true. If their only merit to creating this instance is to have it be public facing without any of the anti-spam benefits of being SDF-Member only, then it probably isn’t worth it. After all their public Mastodon server mastodon.sdf.org has many upkeep issues and they don’t seem to care much about it. Social.sdf.org is well taken care of, because it’s made specifically for SDF members. This instance should be given the same amount of care and attention that social.sdf.org is but the only way that’s worth it is if they can be sure most people there are validated and trusted members.


  • It’s very easy, you just register on the website and login to the TTY using your preferred SSH shell. Can be Termux, can be Putty, can be a Web SSH, doesn’t really matter. It does require Shell access though.

    To be Validated you need to Send at least $1 or €5 to SDF with your shell username written on the envelope or included in the transaction in some way. So yeah there is a membership fee but it’s very cheap.



  • I’ve known that SDF’s mods are way more active on social.sdf.org, I mean they literally kept that instance operational in a Blackout when all the other services didn’t have power. That’s some dedication right there.

    Though I don’t necessarily have the same level of confidence for this instance that I do for social.sdf.org. Since there has been significantly less admin intervention here than there. Actually it’s hard to even get maintenance done on the Lemmy server. There have been outages and borked/bugged updates in the past and it takes days to correct it here. I wasn’t really sure that they’d even update to 0.19.8. I mean better late than never, it doesn’t really inspire confidence though.















  • I remember the creator of the bot that does the bans insisted until he was blue in the fact that it doesn’t ban based on downvotes while spewing a lot f technobabble that ultimately ammounted to banning for downvotes. So yeah, he’s trying to bring back one of the worse features of Reddit, that being an ass kissing requirement, that’s what karma requirements are, they are an ass kissing requirement, because the way you get karma points is by kissing ass, the way you lose them is by sharing new or different ideas. See the issue with them? The system punishes people for having ideas that other people don’t like, not that are wrong or evil, but that other people simply don’t like. That’s not even mentioning people who cheat the system by doing vote manipulation to their own comments or to other comments.