I’m a flask developer but even so I would use PHP for this. There are a million php-based contact form scripts on the web and configuring caddy to use PHP will be easier than python/flask.

As for the sending email part - don’t run a smtp server locally, too much hassle. Smtp2go has a free tier which will be fine.

I too am back on Mint after years wandering the wilderness. It’s really good.

IMO Lemmy/PieFed is safer to run because the community mods will delete anything illegal, which will delete it for you, too. About 5 instances host 95% of communities worth joining so it’s easy for us to coordinate defense.

Mastodon is thousands of instances and more wild west. Bad stuff can come from anywhere.

What a nightmare. Everything gets much harder at their scale…

It that a lot of money? I can’t tell anymore.

Yes if it’s that old then if it was possible to fix it’s problems then surely they would have by now…

Please test PieFed.

https://join.piefed.social/

Lucky for you, python is quite readable and the person who wrote it is available to answer any questions you might have.

Start here https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/2e9189764159a1fdd0243875f3ef76a76bca0bbb/app/utils.py#L553

On PieFed, that character is automatically converted to ‘th’.

Installed qbittorrent and downloaded a few seasons of Linux isos onto a vps. Discovered accessing those files over SSH to be too slow to play them without buffering so installed filebrowser to get them via http which worked well.

It’s been a long long time since I used bittorrent and wow it works so much better these days.

I had a browse of the code recently. It’s really well put together, I think they have a great foundation it just needs to be optimized. I’m hopeful about friendica.

That’s an interesting algorithm!

IMO the Lemmy scaled sort would be ok if it wasn’t as powerful.

Try the scaled sort on PieFed.social, the amplification isn’t as strong and I just tweaked it to filter out bot posts.

https://piefed.social/home/scaled/all

Yeah, don’t do that.

You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.

hell yeah

Ask your admins about that - PieFed has that feature but only admins can do it and it’s instance-wide.

That could happen in the future but at the moment and in the past surely we lost more mods as a result of their community being dead than from their community being too active. But we don’t hear from them because they feel rejected and like they failed so they slink away quietly.

99% of communities need more content, not less.

Thank you for this counter-weight!

Thanks, I was thinking that’d be a good use of it!

Yes but it’s empty. I made it just so someone else couldn’t.