Things should be back to normal now!

Not related, I didn’t think anyone was still using ok0.org. When I last had a look, it was bots finding new ways to spam just to be annoying, Asian hookers peddling their wares and crypto bros sharing their latest musings.

I guess it doesn’t help that I haven’t used it in ages, but it just felt like nothing changed in the two years I’ve been running it. It felt like a waste so I pulled the plug on it, but I can be persuaded otherwise if you think it’s worthwhile.

Your best bet is a web “app”, like https://sqliteviewer.app/

You could also easily get an LLM like Claude or Gemini Pro to write something similar if you had specific requirements. It’s pretty simple so a HTML+JS solution is likely enough and it will run on anything in your browser.

Not at all, we do not disallow any kind of critical speech, unlike the vast majority of Lemmy instances. The TOS are somewhat broad as it’s hard to be specific with these things and discretion always plays a part.

In general, criticism, debate and satire are perfectly fine. Discrimination, personal attacks and insults are not. To give a concrete example, you can say that you don’t like religion X for Y reasons as much as you like. You can’t say that all people of X religion are idiots and you hope they die.

It’s no different than speech about anything else.

Another thing that is relatively unique about our instance is we give communities the right to moderate themselves according to their own rules, so long as they stick to our TOS. This means that you could, for example, start a community dedicated to praising Cthulhu and remove all comments that are even vaguely critical of him from your community, without having the HC admin try to police what you should or shouldn’t allow.

These things make us somewhat unpopular in the Lemmy ecosystem where censorship along political lines is seen as desirable, so long as it favors the left. HC is fairly well known, despite our small size, specifically because we refuse to act like the thought police.

To clarify: Not recently, they have been disabled for about a year.

The idea of down votes and people using them to disagree is perfectly fine.

As you know, they are often not used in good faith. I’ve seen people use bots to mass downvote posts they don’t like, there are people who downvote everything coming from this instance as a default stance, or follow users around and downvote everything they post, etc.

This does influence how Lemmy displays posts here, so it can be a bit annoying. You could make a great post and have it immediately buried at the bottom because someone doesn’t like you, for example.

We’re happy to review this if people feel strongly about it though, it’s been a while since we last looked at it. Maybe make a post about it and see what others think.

No, it isn’t.

Truly salt of the earth

Well, shit!

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