Thank you, beautifully said! When federation between Lemmy instances was finally implemented and people started forming their own instances, I decided to take part in that despite not having extensive system administration experience. I also wanted to experiment. Now I have thought that my intention for Sopuli is to be an alternative to the shitty corporate social media platforms you described – and looks like this has taken off very well in the last few years. Good to hear that I am doing something inspiring and beneficial.

That’s our defence minister Antti Häkkänen, who is here participating remotely in a Nato-Ukraine council meeting with other defence ministers.

Not a minor bug, I just decided to put random things as taglines for the instance, such as that one quote from some Lemmygrad user. Just for fun.

Got the server migration done and Sopuli is as good as new! Hopefully I can rest for a while.

As the instance’s owner and admin, there was a server migration that lasted for a day and nearly 8 hours. And yes, !meta@sopuli.xyz and my Mastodon are good places to check out regarding Sopuli’s status.

I can’t pin my own replies, but I can mark them with “speaking as an admin”.

This makes a good feature request to make at Lemmy’s GitHub: add a feature for pinning messages in a thread.

There’s a Patreon page?

Sopuli’s registrar is Hostinger, I don’t think there is a threat of a similar problem.

Hello! Whether a bot is allowed on Sopuli depends on the bot’s purpose on a case-by-case basis. A spammy and annoying bot is a no-no, same for a bot cross-posting from Reddit. Otherwise I say yes.