That feature you linked to is to flair users… there is a different issue to flair posts: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317

Things have been incredibly unstable there.

I wish lemmy.ml (also unstable) or lemmy.world would hand out a (nearly) full copy of the database so we can get more analysis done on PostgreSQL performance behaviors. Remove the private comments and password /2fa/user, or whitelist only comments/posts/communities/person tables - but most everything else should already be public information that’s shared via the API or federation anyway. it’s the quantity, grouping, and the age of the data that’s hard to reproduce in testing. And knowledge of other federated servers, even data that may have been generated by older versions of Lemmy that new versions can’t reproduce.

It’s been over 60 days of constant PostgreSQL overload problems and last week Lemmy.ca made a clone of their database to study offline with AUTO_EXPLAIN which surfaced a major overload on new comments and posts related to site_aggregates counting (it was counting each new post/comment against every known server, not just the single database row for a server).

I have an account over on World too, and every major Lemmy server I use throws errors with casual usage. It’s been discouraging, I haven’t visited a website with this many errors in years. Today (Sunday) has actually been better than yesterday, but I do not see many new postings being created on lemmy.ml today.

3 underscores did not work in preview, I’ll just leave it as is now, a clickable link (not rendered inline)

I can’t get it to work on an image. Is it 4 underscores?

I don’t think it works on an image?!

How do you spoiler an image in Lemmy markdown?

image here ![] (https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0332b83a-ab01-4c99-9155-2a08b02fb652.png)

among several others

The interesting thing about Snowden to me after 10 years is how few times I see the public think about how low-level staff with hardware-level access can bypass all command and control decisions. He was a contractor who just wholesale scooped data off the servers. Nearly 10 years later… Jack Teixeira leaks documents because he has server access to documents outside his immediate need too.

I think a lot of organizations really don’t see how vulnerable they are to deliberate attacks and theft - if the NSA can’t protect their data 10 years ago, do you really think your mobile phone network provider or these VPN companies are not subject to internal staff selling off data, etc?