Besides the actual developers of lemmy, none has done more for the lemmiverse than the maintainers of lemmy.word. When the Reddit shitstorm started and other leading servers shut down user registration, you guys held the ship steady and didn’t flinch from the sudden flood of new users. Discovering new bottle-necks in lemmy code, helping to resolve them and deploying hot fixes. All in super fast reaction time. About “lemmy.world shouldn’t be largest server” crap - it’s good for lemmy that one server is the easy entry point to lemmy. This is where the “mainstream” communities could/should be and new users will have an easier landing. Having dedicated servers with their own communities (like start trek, piracy, etc) is great but it’s not mandatory for all communities.

This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.

OP is correct. We have very little to to gain and everything to lose.

Fuck Reddit. I’m here now and it’s great.

It feels like it is possible to have a conversation here. In Reddit I felt like my comments were getting buried

Using wefwef.app (it’s a web app) and it’s great. Sometimes I need remind myself that I’m not using Apollo.

Yeah that’s a possibility. They could do something like “ohh too bad Killer Feature X is looking so badly on Mastodon. On Threads it will look so much better”. Essentially using fedi as a crappy demo for Threads. That sounds like a typical business plan to me.

The easiest option ATM would be for an app to combine both communities into one synthetic feed

I’d recommend Debian Linux. It’s free, stable, has all the software you’ll need with long term support, ton of online resources and communities to learn from. You can start with or without UI.

For app data, Borg as backup/restore software. Backup data is then stored on Hetzner as an offsite backup - super easy and cheap to setup. Also add healthchecks.io to get notified if a backup failed.

Edit: Backup docker compose files and other scripts (without API keys!!!) with git to GitHub.

In retrospect, I’m really glad all of this shit with Reddit happened and lemmy became a thing in my life. Was bummed initially when Apollo died, but now despite needed polish in lemmy apps, the experience here is much much better and I would never go back.

Quitting Reddit and switching to lemmy - easy. Quitting FB - not possible. I have no other way to keep in touch with remote friends and relatives and there are local FB groups that are useful for me. Dropping Whatsapp also is sadly impossible. With my nerdy friends I use telegram/signal but 99.99% of ppl are available only on WhatsApp.

Could be the instance with the raving tankies that was defederated.

Even when it is installed as a separate app?

That really depends on how you treat the media you download. Is it just a temp buffer that you delete after watching or is it a collection you grow and curate over time.

Wow that’s a great idea

Supporting both is in order. As one is pointless without the other

That sounds like an excellent solution for web based apps, but what about services like Plex or Nextcloud that use their own client side apps?

Yeah I read the original announcement. I know it was a team effort. But still, this is your sever and your responsibility.

I’m itching so hard to block both.

The easiest option ATM would be for an app to combine both communities into one synthetic feed

It’s literally takes 2 clicks to tunnel via a VPN

Those are good points. Don’t implement ActivityPub and avoid the problem all together.

I write down everything I built so for plus future plans in OneNote. This kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting but I want to keep a written copy complete off site in case if a complete loss. Plus I like OneNote. It’s actually a well designed product. Scripts, docker compose files and such are in GitHub.

Mastodon exists. It’s pretty good. Using 2 apps is fine.

A design that scales. Forwarding every like, post and comment to all federated servers will not scale well.