they are now on a modern variant of lemmy, but still pretty customized. There is a small compatibility issue with mobile apps being worked on but otherwise yes. I believe they are workign on porting their changes to v0.18.1 of lemmy now.
the lemmy.world people are doing fine. before launching the lemmy server they were taking in significantly more than their costs in donations https://blog.mastodon.world/
lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world and it is already donation funded. They post financial updates on their blog: https://blog.mastodon.world/
they have been funded by grants from NLnet (I think from EU funds?) but I think are transitioning to donation-based.
Just to get it out of the way: there are obviously some issues with lemmy discoverability and quantity of content
But to be blunt: this is not the kind of user lemmy needs right now, he won't be missed. He doesn't want to join a community, he wants to scroll a feed that is pre-curated for him. And to be honest, that is most redditors, for better or for worse, but the core of the site, what gives it most of its value besides just scale, is powerusers and mods who will see: "oh there isn't a formula1 comm yet? I'll make one". Boom. Problem solved. among a userbase of thousands there will be other people who want to talk about F1, but you need at least one person to be engaged enough to create the community and post to it once in a while.
This perspective is fundamentally self-defeating if you want to get an alternative off the ground. It will take off if people get into it, and it won't if they don't
No matter how politely stated your disagreement is, if it boils down to "I don't think I should have to respect trans people's identity"/"I don't think trans people should have rights" then it's transphobic and I'm 1000% fine with that being bannable
hexbear is currently running an old version of lemmy that doesn't support the v3 API or federation. migration to a more modern lemmy is in progress
Longtime hexbear.net user, not really new but becoming more active since the reddit enshittification wave hit lemmy. I need an account to follow things over here and combat libs in the lemmy.ml comments
It's back now. it was either a glitch the last time the scan ran to see what instances are up and fetch stats, or the admins saw the message on matrix pointing it out and fixed it
Water from Kakhovka Reservoir supplies water for cooling the 5.7 GW Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and to irrigate areas of southern Ukraine and northern Crimea via the North Crimean Canal and Dnieper–Kryvyi Rih Canal.[7]
Russia famously loves cutting off their own water supplies/important infrastructure. Really hope the intakes for that nuclear plant are deep
And I think the biggest performance boost would be to separate the application and postgresql onto different servers.
I think hexbear.net (an older lemmy fork-ed site) is working on this in conjunction with moving back to a modern lemmy version
Cloudflare does have the ability to spy on traffic though, they hold SSL keys.
A better option for a simple usecase like that is using something from your DNS provider. Depending on who you use they may have a health check service that has no access to user data that can simply ping a URL, and if it fails hard enough, start redirecting traffic to join-lemmy.org
I think Constellix has it, though I'm not necessarily recommending them specifically