we are also lifting the extensive IP blocks for certain "problematic" network ranges - feddit.org will thus be fully accessible again worldwide. The issues where images from feddit.org might not load on other instances should also be resolved.
It's been there for a couple of years. Found a GitHub comment by Gargron talking about what it is in 2022
The explore tab is in essence a moderated, quality-filtered federated timeline. Its purpose is to help you discover other people and expand your visibility, but without being a vector for spam and abuse.
It wasn't intentional. One of the authors wrote on Mastodon that there's "something wrong with the text layers" and the Media Lab is working on it.
It seems like they outsourced the pdf creation to someone who doesn't know how to properly create pdf's or the wrong version got published, which I'm suspecting because the title of the pdf is "layout draft 2024-12-16".
PeerTube is using Webtorrent to distribute the load to all viewers that currently watch the video. And if you host a PeerTube instance you can manually mirror videos on your instance that are hosted on other PeerTube instances.
There's an uptick in active and total users. It's not much, around +400 accounts, but a clear deviation from the line prior to the tiktok overtake.