I really enjoy boost.

You(and everyone else) are welcome at endlesstalk.org.

I prioritize uptime and have setup monitoring to notify, if anything goes down(See here). I have no problem banning/defederating Nazi's and the like, but I generally don't take action unless, an instance/users aren''t following the rules. I'm open for requests and discussion though.

Currently I'm the only admin, but I'm in the process of changing the setup of the site, so other admins would be able to fix the site, if anything should happen.

Everyone is welcome to join my small instance at endlesstalk.org. I have also setup the same alternative UI's as lemmy.world, if that rocks your boat!.

I ran into the issue on my instance as well, but checking the Captcha option in admin settings, stopped the signups for me.

When I joined Lemmy I decided I wanted to engange with the community here on Lemmy, since I on Reddit I just lurked, so I'm much more active here.

My instance(endlesstalk.org) is very small, but you are welcome there.

I think most instances besides beehaw.org are federated with lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. So you should be able to look at join-lemmy or lemmyverse for servers to join.

If you want to check if a instance is defederating a specific instance, you can go to /instance on the instance and look under Blocked Instances

I have hosted a lot of my own services for a couple of years and plan to continue hosting my instance(endlesstalk.org) indefinitely, unless something very major happens.

As others have mentioned I think multiple admins and backups(hard to verify though) are a good sign, but its only indications and you can't really be sure, if a instance will be there forever. I think there needs to be an easy way to migrate accounts and then the instances going down hopefully gives a notice, so you can move your account.

Gonna be difficult to recover accounts from instance going down without a notice I think. You could regularly take a backup of your account, but that is tedious and you will still lose some data.

As an alternative to lemmy.world I would like to suggest my own instance endlesstalk.org.

I have no plans to deferate or ban anything releated to piracy. Only thing that might change my mind would probably be a company taking legal action against me.

I also strive to have as little downtime as possible and keep everything running smoothly.

Ubuntu server(Xeon CPU E5-2650 v4 with 86 GB Ram) running k3s(My home server):

• App-daemon(Used with home assitant for more complicated automation)
• Bazarr
• Browserless(Currently used for rendering js pages for huginn)
• Dpaste
• Filerun
• Homeassistant
• Homer(My dashboard)
• Huginn
• Jellyfin
• Kaizoku(For downloading manga)
• Nzbget
• Nzbhydra
• Ombi
• Paperless
• Photoprism
• Pihole
• Plex
• Prowlarr
• Radarr
• Scrutiny(For checking my drives)
• Sonarr
• Qbittorrent with vpn
• Wiki.js
• Christmas-Community(Wishlist)
• ZwaveJS(For homeassistant)

2 Ubuntu servers running k3s(VPS used for my infrastructure services)

• Keycloak
• Offical docker registry
• Bitwarden
• Gitea
• Headscale
• Healthchecks(For checking backups)
• Uptime-kuma - Hashicorp vault

Infrastructure services runing on all servers

• ArgoCD(For deploying everything on k3s)
• Longhorn(For storage)
• Vault-secrets-operator(For getting secrets from vault into k3s)
• Traefik(My reverse proxy)

Lastly I'm hosting Lemmy on a leftover VPS, that I hadn't used in a while. Might move to a bigger server though.

They defederated from lemmy.world + sh.itjust.works(Not lemmy.ml) and you can see their reasoning here

I created a fork, where I added a Dockerfile, so if you know Docker and how to build it, should be able to use that.

It exposes port 3000 and you need to point PUBLIC_INSTANCE to where the main instance is hosted.

Yeah, until there are better tools than defederation to limit communication between instances. Might take a while though and I think they only said they would re-evaluate it, so no guarantee(more detail in the link above)

I selfhost PhotoPrism.

I use a folder sync app, to upload all my pictures from my phone to a directory on my server, which PhotoPrism imports from every 15 mins(Might be a bit more or less).

I have used it for a couple of years and it has worked fine for me.

It seems to be fairly easy to get up and running, so when I have the time, sure.

In Germany on a hetzner dedicated server.

My instance has 2 users. The domain name is endlesstalk.org

I host it on a k3s cluster with 2 nodes.

After hosting my own instance with just me for ca. 2 weeks:

1.99Gi pictrs

5.21Gi postgres

Hmm. It shouldn't work for old.endlesstalk.org, since it has a setup, where the backend isn't reachable, but it should work for the other 2.

I have just found that the image service has had some files corrupted and therefor it isn't working currently, so that might be the cause? I'm working on restoring a backup, so it works again.

Hopefully that fixes the issue. Will let your know, when the image service works again.

Lemmy.world does a great job(with a little downtime) and it is the same software we are hosting, so I can only see a couple of ways to make a better "offering"

1. Better uptime as you mentioned
2. Different deferation/moderation policy.
3. Visual customizations(eg. different theme)

I try to provide a better uptime and a different deferation/moderation policy. I don't have the skills to make visual customizations, but I have added multiple frontends(like lemmy.world).

I'm open to suggestions/ideas if there is anything else that could be done to improve the "offering".

About 2 months, 62 comments, 17 post. The post are mostly server updates for my instance though.

Still a big improvement over reddit though, since I just lurked there. Think I have more comments now, than in all my 9 years on reddit.

It is on my to-do list, but it would take some work to add support for multiple people to have access to everything required and I would also need a lot more documentation, than I currently have.

There are tools that can backup and migrate communities, blocks and settings like lasim for a user. So you can migrate between instances.

As far as I know, there aren't any tools that can migrate comment history and I think anything that could do that, would need to be backed into lemmy itself(Which it isn't currently).

Usually, it is correct, that the all feed would be smaller on a small instance, but "seeders", like lcs or lemmony can make the feed in all tab much larger.

It does this by subscribing to a lot communites. Lcs does for specific communities and lemmony subscribes to everything. You can see an example of an all tab with many subscriptions(added via lemmony) at my instance

I think the easist way to check, if an instance uses one of these seeders is to check the number of subscriptions in the instance. Or just ask the admin for the instance.

I'll recommend my own instance at endlesstalk.org. There you can create a community, if you want. lemm.ee or sh.itjust.works might also allow creating of new communities, but I haven't checked.

I also thought about using AWE SES, but I decided not to use it, since I was "sandboxed"(See more here).

I decided to use MXRoute, which have worked great for me so far. It is more expensive(50$ per year), than purelymail and Migadu, but for me reliabillity is very important, so I don't mind paying a bit extra for it.

I think it was because of a wrong rate limit setting. Should be fixed now.

For s3 iDrive e2 is cheaper. It costs 4$ per month, if you pay monthly and down to ca 3$, if you pay yearly.

The egress policy is mostly the same as backblaze. You get 3 times the storage you pay for. With backblaze you get 3 times the average amount of data you have stored.

Yeah, I think there is something wrong with the kbin federation. I have been subscribed to @RedditMigration@kbin.social for some time, but there isn't any content on endlesstalk.org.

I will look into it.

I have a younger sister and we get along fine. We take a couple of vacations together with our father each year and also meet up once in a while, when it is possible.

For a very small instance(10 users), you can try mine at endlesstalk.org. It also has multiple frontends hosted like lemmy.world and many others.

Otherwise I would recommend lemm.ee, lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip

I have only 1 container of pictrs running(with no scaling) and are using longhorn for storage, so if the pictrs container switches node, then longhorn handles it for me.

The internal path, I'm persisting is /mnt, but I also use an older version of pictrs(0.3.1). Think the newer version uses a different path.

I also needed to add the following for the pictrs container to work correctly.

  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 991
    runAsGroup: 991
    fsGroup: 991

Hmm. I can see kbin.social instances and have subscribed to some of them

Have you tried searching via the url of the kbin magazone/community in endlesstalk.org? or just searching for them without @?

I don't know too much about frontend, but I my guess would be, that it would be difficult to get an 1 to 1 copy, but you coud get something fairly close.

No problem.

I will try to use the tool and see if I can find out, if its the tool or the website. I'll update, when I find more out.

Yeah, for the frontends setup on endlesstalk.org you would need an account there, but the developers of the frontends have setup their own, where you can use an instance you want.

For Alexandrite there is https://alexandrite.app and for Mlmym there is https://mlmym.org

I found the issue. I had set the rate limit for messaging to 0(unlimited), which LASIM wasn't set to handle.

I have now set another rate limit, so it should work now(Worked for me atleast)

Photoprism

If you have the ability then self hosting is the best option

Otherwise I think instances with less users and content will be quicker, but then the all feed will probably be smaller.

I will also recommend my own instance endlesstalk.org. It is very small(10 users) and the server is located in Germany. Hopefully that is close to where you live, so the latency is low.

My instance endlesstalk.org is hosted in Germany via Hetzner, so that should fit the bill.

Defederations are only done, when it would have a negative effect on the instance's users, but I'm always open to discuss, if anyone disagrees with a deferation.