the box text was made with this: https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts

the logo art is from the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ASCII_art, but you need the eurlatgr console font for the characters to display properly.

on a almost related note, TIL about pacman -F, you can search files in all packages even not installed !

yes sir

there are more than 400 instances already: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy, but more will come for sure.

I was going to say the same thing, what we are experiencing right now isn’t organic growth, it is an exodus, I think it is inevitable that instances will disagree at one point or another and decide to defederate but making these decisions now feels like jumping the gun.

keepassxc + syncthing for syncing the database across devices.