Me, who didn’t join one of the huge instances, instead hosting his own instance: “Why is everyone complaining? Lol.”
This is the 3rd time I’ve seen someone mention they run their own instance. The other two specifically mentioned how it was for just them, and I’m wondering what the benefit is going that extra mile for just yourself. Is it worth it? Or is it simply a case of “because I fucking can?” 🤔
I am part of a team that runs an instance for financial discussion, specifically related to direct registration of securities.
For us, the benefit is additional control over the resiliency and transparency of the server and moderation style.
You don’t need to worry about being defederated unless the instance is whitelist only (or you’re an ass).
Does the instance itself hold a record or database of content posted, too? Like, could a personal instance be used to archive your own posts and comments, even if made on another instance through your personal one’s account? That right there would be motivation to play with it for me. Well, that and the “because I can” thing.
As long as a user on your instance is subscribed to all the communities you comment on they should federate as far as I understand. Ask someone more knowledgeable before spinning one up though.
I run an open instance for everyone. The name (FOSSware) suggests that it’s for people interested in FOSS (free and open source software) only, but in the description, I specifically mentioned that it’s an open instance for everyone, just like with lemmy.world and other popular instances.
I’m running this instance, because I love technology and I’m hosting a lot of stuff for my family, friends and I, as well as some public facing things already. It’s a hobby.
Another reason why I’m doing it is that I just want to give back to the community, as I strongly believe that decentralized tech is the future. We were proven time and time again that centralized approaches, where only one entity is in control, is really bad for the userbase.
And the economy, whatever form that economy may be. Content and comment economies online, or the financial one in real life.
theres hope
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
The wretched refuse of Reddit’s scheming shore
Me, who’s already been here for a few weeks, trying to just load a post or make a comment right now with the influx of traffic:
So true!
Use a non Lemmy.world account and you’ll have more success
how does that work
Go to literally any other instance and create an account there
For a bit more context on what others have already said, Lemmy is more decentralized, akin to email. Lemmy.world is the biggest website for Lemmy, in the same way Gmail is for email, but like email, there are tons of smaller or even personal sites that can all network together. If one site goes down, only content on that site and its users are affected, others are not.
So each lemmy site is an instance with its own servers. Even though they all connect to one another, they run on their on load and data. So you’re on lemmy.world, which is being very overloaded with the influx of reddit folks. I’m on lem.ee which is buttery smooth, yet still able to see posts and comments from world, since it’s all federated
You just make an account on a smaller instance (easiest way to find them is at the bottom of the page here), and subscribe to all the communities you want from lemmy.world and others to start pulling them in.
Then proceed to shitpost as normal.
EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the “Software” option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.
EDIT: Alternatively, go here, switch the “Software” option to Lemmy at the top, and look for a server geographically close to you.
Oh, great tip! Thanks! It’s interesting to see which servers are hosted in my state.
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oh man, this is kinda weird…
stumbles in from reddit and throws up racist memes all over the floor
This was the perfect post!!
I imagine Lemm.ee is bursting at the seams by now
That was literally was me as I tried to make an account for 36 hours
Hopefully, the momentum of people transferring to lemmy stays. I’ve had conversations with other Redditors who recognized the importance of third party apps but went ahead and downloaded the official app anyway.
I tried the official app soon after it’s initial release and didn’t like it. Tried again the other day and it was even worse than I remember. It was ugly and slow scrolling on my phone. I deleted it right away. I don’t mind using the reddit desktop site, if I go back for my niche communities until they make it to the Fediverse, but I’m no longer using reddit on mobile if I can’t use my favorite 3rd-party app. Reddit even made it’s mobile website annoying to use, trying push people to its app. I absolutely hate when sites do that.
That’s insane. I downloaded boost because I hated the official app. Since I heard the news about the API I never even once considered downloading the official app again. After all, you’re exactly doing what sp*z wants you to do.
Lemmy also has a really great app environment. Boost for Lemmy is apparently already on the way, as well as both Sync, Slide, and a bunch of new apps too!
You can also try out wefwef.app I’m using it right now and it feels just like Apollo
Oh absolutely. Wefwef is great, I’m actually using it as my desktop Lemmy experience right now. Right now app development is moving so fast that my favorite is rapidly switching, but the three favorites that I’m using the most are Connect, Thunder, and wefwef.
Imma go ahead and take note of your suggestions. Thank you fellow Lemming!
Tell me about it. Just goes to show that certain people aren’t willing to compromise on what they perceive as their home.
Yeah actually looking back at it, I had been fed up with Reddit for a while. Between the lame new awards and NFT avatars, mods got cockier and subreddits were banned for no reason… If it weren’t for the third party apps I would’ve stopped using Reddit long ago!
How can anyone use the official app after using a 3PA for years? The official app is laggy and bloated…
Addicted to the ecosystem
I honestly don’t know. It baffles me. Maybe it’s convenient but their decisions completely invalidates the blackout and just confirms spez’s words that this will all blow over.
LMAO
This works a lot better than I thought it would lol
How long has Lemmy actually been around? I only even heard about it because of the Reddit shit, and I had been actively looking for a replacement for almost 2 years.
Initial release: May 5, 2019.
Better late than never!
and here I thought lemmy was brand-new
Well, what is new is the scale. In that sense we’re only at the beginning!
Atleast there is more content in the fediverse!
Is me! Dig it so far!
You Dugg it
I Reddited it
Now we lem it.
I keep following the refugees. I guess I really am a lemming
You earned my first upvote, or whatever it’s called here. Bravo!
i think it’s called the same
It’s me!
