Would be an interesting idea to fork and do a ‘Lemmy Lite’ which is just a single-person instance, doesn’t host any communities, but lets you join communities/federate with them the same way a full install does.
Would be an interesting idea to fork and do a ‘Lemmy Lite’ which is just a single-person instance, doesn’t host any communities, but lets you join communities/federate with them the same way a full install does.
Oh for sure–I just span up a new droplet to throw it on. There are Docker instructions as well.
The ansible install on ubuntu wasn’t too bad, tbh. I haven’t touched anything backend since I installed, and it’s been chugging!
That’s how I went. Time will tell if it eats storage etc, but so far I’m loving the control I have over who to federate with.
I wonder how that would work if an instance gets abruptly shut down. Maybe each time you make an account you get a ‘recovery key’ that you can link to your new account on a new instance, thereby taking ownership of your old posts (or at least the ones that got federated out of your old instance).
That’s a good idea. Allow communities to choose if they are globally or locally subscribable.
I decided to self-host my own instance for that reason. That way I’m actually totally in control of what I’m seeing. It does make finding new communities less organic, but it’s easy enough with the new listing tools. Probably not worth the money if all I ran on my server was Lemmy, but as an added service it’s great.
100%! I’m excited to see more growth. The federation between kbin and lemmy is great. I love that it can also federate with anything else using ActivityPub, basically.
You are now banned from r/pyongyang
100%. It appears to me this new community is already serving the purpose of the old one!
Never thought about how this relates to net neutrality. Reddit was kind of becoming a “common carrier” for information, but as a centralized source it’s in their interest to filter content for money’s sake. Here in the fediverse the communities (and their data) are cloned but constantly updated across many independently owned servers. So no one server owner can ever really steer the discourse. We just need an official way to migrate a community in the case an instance goes down/stops meeting the needs of the community.
Thanks for hosting!
Exactly. Bring all that discussion and content over here, then we are actually in control of it. We can’t expect anything to change when Reddit thinks there’s no viable alternative.
Nice. I think the Fediverse is the way to go for communities like this.
I believe it is saved first on the instance you’re signed up for, then gets pushed around the network using the Activity pub protocol. So it eventually ends up being stored across many instances of it has far enough reach.
This is the main issue I see right now as well. I created my own instance for my account to live on, just so I know it will be there as long as I want it to. But that doesn’t do anything for communities I’m subscribed to that could, potentially, be on an instance that later goes down.
I think communities of similar topics are going to need to coordinate in the long run, and perhaps run their own instance to house their communities. This way the folks running the community and the folks hosting it are one in the same. You’d have instances that mainly house users, and perhaps a community or two. That’s where most folks would have their main account. Then you’d have instances that mainly house content, with few users besides the moderation/admin team(s).
Wasn’t Soylent Green algae based at first?