I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.

No need to be self-conscious - that’s a concise account of a complicated issue, which is going to go long. Long posts become an issue when they are rambling and unfocused.

Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server)

This is the route I’d recommend as you get superb specs for not much more than you’d be paying through the normal hosting, which, itself, is already very reasonable.

This has been our experience at feddit.uk. Well done to everyone over there. 👍

Worth also noting that:

• We are currently only using about 1/4 of the resources, so people could trim the cost further (although being over specced helps a lot when there are spikes in activity and it will mean we don’t have to upgrade any time soon).
• Our hosting costs are more that fully covered by around 20 people donating and that should scale with growth (although possibly not in a truly linear way). We also have a decent “warchest” which should see us through most temporary problems.

One reason we break the finances down is because we are a medium-sized instance and we want to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible to run one supported by donations.

If anyone has any questions they are welcome to message me or they can drop it into the monthly financial report (the new one will be next week).

I watch a lot of horror but that managed to unsettle more than anything in a while.

Your call. I’ll keep an eye out for progress.

You and me to start, advertise for more. Should be fine. It is a niche meme community.

I really shouldn’t and meme communities can be a bit hectic but it is a bit niche so should be manageable and, having thought about it, I think it would work. So, yeah, do it!

That’s enough for me.

Here and here. And that broken context link.

It’s basically beans all the way down.

There are Fediverse blog platforms but, as this is about Tumblr, what about a Fediverse tumbleblog? You’ve got:

• Wafrn
• Loforo: “Another surprise is that Loforo is the second most active ActivityPub blog platform in the Fediverse, behind only WordPress.”
• Goblin - mentioned in the previous article. It’s a FireFish fork from a former Tumblr employee.

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At this point you might as well start the community. Stick a post up asking for other Mods to help out.

Do you though?

There were beans, lots of beans.

Back in the ’90s, when the blockbuster age was in full swing, with the independent film revolution happening right alongside it, I knew who I was rooting for on a weekly basis. I’ll confess that I sometimes thought of popcorn-movie audiences as the “bad guys,” and the audiences for adventurous indie and foreign films as the “good guys.” The bad guys kept the engine of escapism whirring. But the good guys helped to sustain cinema as an art form. That may sound snobby or unfair, but it’s how I thought of it.

I am not sure where I fit into that (snobby and unfair) narrative. I go at least twice a week and watch most of the big movies and the majority of genre films. I’ll also try and watch any foreign-language films that catch my interest, even though quite a few are only shown in a slightly more distant and inconvenient to get to multiplex.

Am I someone who loves the cinema the most? Dunno.

I’ve got one near me - I went to it as a nipper and it is now community-run and lovingly restored. They’re even working on bringing the wurlitzer back to life.

That was my reasoning.

Ahhhh, I didn’t check… Now I feel bad.