I enjoyed my time being here and helping to grow this community. My plan was to keep things such as book of the month and show discussions going indefinitely. It’s sad to say goodbye as I would love to continue to try my best at facilitating discussion and help this community become a great resource for science fiction fans everywhere. Unfortunately, I don’t have a choice as lemmy.world admins have made the rather baffling decision to ban my account despite no rules being broken. Unless I hear back from Ruud on the matter and the situation is rectified there is no way for me to continue to enjoy discussing science fiction with all of you here. I’m unsure if I will attempt to restart this community on another instance.

Keep on loving science fiction. You guys are great. 🚀

  • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Please be very very very very careful using this as it can and does cause a shit ton of bandwidth and if you aren’t careful it can essentially create the equivalent of a mini ddos attack especially to smaller instances.

    • Blaze
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      1 year ago

      Interesting! I always assumed the tool would be run by the instance admin, isn’t that the case?

      • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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        1 year ago

        Yes, but federation pulls a lot of data from an instance especially if that bot isn’t configured well. Even if it is, it can cause CPU usage to skyrocket as pulling new communities can sometimes bring a lot of database activity.