we really need Patreon integration

Hard disagree. As one of the people whose personal details and payment information were leaked by Patreon a few years ago I would rather nothing in the fediverse had anything to do with that company.

What’s the format of the text file?

As a mere user I have no idea what should be reported to whom. It needs to be really obvious and I’d like to see predefined categories as options, e.g. “breaks community rules” (ideally with options to select which rule was broken), “spam”, “illegal content” (remembering that what’s illegal in one place may not be illegal in others).

For reporting to admins, which admins get the report? If I’m on instance A reading a community hosted on instance B and report a comment from a user on instance C, who gets the report? It’d be really nice to see a list of those when selecting a report type, e.g. “this report will be sent to the moderators of [email protected]” or “this report will be sent to the administrators of lemm.ee, lemmy.ml and startrek.website”.

This is a very interesting write up, thanks.

A picture of some kids using phones.

ZigBee devices are probably the obvious choice. You’ll need a ZigBee dongle which acts as a controller, then HA can talk to all the devices.

I don’t believe that for a second.

Do they count it against the app id and not the user?

Yes, that.

Because Relay has a few thousand users.

Known issue being worked on: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3588

I have two of these outside, jankily sealed up with electrical tape, and they’ve survived the British weather for a year so far.

Oh yes, it’ll decrease the server load with the sacrifice of network traffic and client load. It’s a hard balancing act to get right.

Yeah, that was my concern. Sounds good to me!

The live posts and notifications are definitely cool but I know it would be challenging to make it both useful and scalable.

Oh, cool. What’s replacing them?