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We now have a new sitelogo made by @Blisterexe@lemmy.zip! Post: indie-ver.se/post/10275

We want to thank everybody who participated in the logo competition for your time and your art. We chose this logo, because it ended up looking the best as a favicon.

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- ssnoer

Indie-verse is currently hosted behind a Cloudflare proxy, which has saved the server a lot of traffic and helped protect against AI crawlers.

After some careful consideration I also enabled “Bot Fight Mode”, but only after making sure, I had working custom rules that skipped every security feature for federation related traffic. But it turns out, custom rules can’t skip Bot Fight Mode using a free plan, which I only found out today. This has left me with no choice, but to disable bot fight mode for now, and it will not be re-enabled while we are on the free plan.

Currently I don’t have the money to upgrade us, but it should not pose an issue, as there are other security measures against bots, that should prevent potential issues.

Thought I would let you know.

- ssnoer

PS: we also just got our very first donation. Thank you guys!

We now storage all images on a Hetzner S3 bucket, instead of on the server. This should help us scale more effectively. (This post is mostly a test to see if it works xD)

I'd love to post some of my own impressions/recommendations of demos for upcoming games and I think this instance would be a good place for them, but they're not really news and definitely don't fit in this meta community.

It seems like Lemmy only allows users to create communities on their own local instance (kinda makes sense tbh), so I'm asking here: Could we have a community for just posting our reviews/impressions of indie games we played?

EDIT: Community is up! !RecommendAGame@indie-ver.se

Thanks ssnoer!

I am thinking of trying out new adding more official front ends for Indie-verse. Does anybody have preferences to which front ends to add?

What is a front-end? You might ask. It's an alternative website ot view the exact same fedi-verse content. An example could be mlmym

I found a news piece I thought as worth sharing, but it's not in English.

Would there be any problem to share it in !news@indie-ver.se, or would it be ok?

Also the translation would be done manually by me.

Many instances choose to implement various alternate frontends in addition to the main one, it may be worth looking into this in the future. For instance, mlmym provides an old reddit-style experience.

Hey!

Got a bit of a question. Would anyone be up for setting up a Voices of the Void community on Indieverse? There was one previously but the instance it was on shut down (and it never saw all that much traction). I would be absolutely willing to set up a local account to help moderate the community, if need be.

Thanks!

I was thinking, maybe Indieverse could point to them to lower the chance of others creating communities here, so people don't have to be divided among two communities for a same game? Iirc there are 5 such communities, for Luanti/Minetest, Hytale, Starbound, Terraria and Stardew Valley.

Since you're just starting out, I would recommend evaluating Piefed as your platform as opposed to Lemmy. All Lemmy users can still access your content (and all Piefed users can access Lemmy content), so there is no network size hit.

It's a lot nicer (features, UI/UX) than Lemmy and has a much better development velocity (I've personally had some minor features requests get implemented in under a week).

Not to mention, the developers of Lemmy (and their fanboys) are committed supporters of russian genocidal imperialism. They are bad people. I am not even talking about edge cases. Support for North Korea and claiming that the regime is "a vanguard against imperialism" is horrible.

Some nice things about Piefed:

• Better posting algorithm (e.g. ability to show youtube thumbnails when you post a YT link)
• Multi-community comments - when two different communities post the same URL, you get comments from both
• Better moderation features - Users see a badge for suspected spam-style accounts, moderation/blocking is more granular
• Nice "value adds" - Posting flairs, post tags, built-in scheduled posting
• Link re-direction - Your users don't need to think/understand anything about federation and instances, it all just works out of the box.

@rimu@piefed.social

I think Rimu (head developer of Piefed) can give you a better perspective than I can. He's a good guy!

Cheers!

We are announcing a logo competition for our instance. Please submit your logo here in the replies or as a post on the instanfe and we will pick a winner! Best of luck.

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