Not having just an account on .world is a necessity since it’s the favorite target of attacks (at least, I’m assuming that’s why it’s down so much).
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How do you move a community, start fresh?
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Rightfully so.
Lemmy servers are hosted by just some people that often don’t even accept donations, shoulder the entire legal liability and are sys admin all together by themselves.
And then there is the clownshow reddit being a gigantic company and not even able to not be a gigantic shitshow.
Gotta love decentralised shit
I’ve been trying to find a smaller instance and I tried a couple, they see waaaaaay different things. I can’t even see lemmy.world on one of them. I might have to keep all of the instances and just jump around.
Some have community seeding bots that pull top communities and posts periodically from other instances.
That makes sense, thanks for explaining. I couldn’t find a lot of instances in their search though either. Can the instance person make it so they have to approve each instance or something? This is a very simple one and I can’t believe they would be defederated.
My instance has it. It’s local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it’ll automatically ignore instances you’ve already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It’s basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that’s there to check if it’s federated into your instance or not and if it isn’t itll pull it in for you.
With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won’t federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.
That is great information, thank you for explaining it to me. That explains why I’ve had issues trying to find my favorite communities on the smaller instances. I think it’s misleading when they say that you can pick any instance then, it really matters for what kind of admin you get and what you can see overall. I can’t see world on this super small instance but I can see beehaw. On world, I can’t see beehaw but I can see everything else the small instance can’t. I’m starting to see why people are confused when they join if they join a small instance.
Some of it is also federating content in, you don’t need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance
I did that, that’s what I mean where it wouldn’t work. I’ve done it for tons of communities from world where they didn’t have it but it didn’t work on this small instance.
Really? You sometimes have to click the search button a few times.
Thats what I do. It’s a strength of the fediverse, and most of the apps handle account swapping pretty seamlessly.
What apps do you recommend for swapping instances?
I have tried Jerboa and Connect. Both allow me to swap accounts from the main menu, but I am brought back to me default start view and not the community/thread I was looking at.
I really like Liftoff for this. You can choose instances on the fly while posting, searching, or reading comments without losing your spot.
It’s really nice.
I love it too. In case you didn’t know, you can just lurk on other instances without having to have an account by adding just the instance.
I noticed that, because I went to add my beehaw account that I had created when I joined Lemmy, but I guess beehaw deleted it for being inactive or something. Beehaw still shows up on my instance list, and I kind of wish I could remove it.
On your instances list long press Beehaw and the option to remove it will show up.
Omg, thank you so much
Join mine! I run several tools in order to federate with the most popular content automatically. I’m keeping user count limited, but sign ups are open at the moment.
Sent an application in!
I seriously like your rules, lol.
I like to keep shit simple. :D
I like your rules too. But I have to admit I didn’t know what “No tankie shit” meant, so I had to look it up. 😀 That was a new term for me.
Yeah, that’s a nah from me for that very reason. Those people should be shouting that stuff in their bathroom, not in a place where others have to hear it.
I believe there is a way to block instances, I don’t know if it blocks comments but i believe it would block the posts
The funny thing is that Reddit with its big teams and infrastructure was also sluggish and going down a lot this week and we keep forgetting that. No excuses for Reddit.
this is the opposite on reddit (obvious reasons). ppl go ham when someone mentions lemmy.world is down lol
Which is especially funny since you can just log into a different instance and keep browsing, unlike with Reddit.
options are optional
My home instance managed to get blocked by Lemmy World’s Cloudflare firewall, probably because my Pleroma/Akkoma account and my Lemmy account are on the exact same IP.
Fun fact: it was my Pleroma’s fault after all! Some confusion with its “transmogrifier” library was causing it to spam requests every 0.8 seconds on average - not even joking, at one point my IP was the largest source of incoming requests in the world. Sorry for the accidental DDOS
Understandable since one is a government funded
psyop running on servers in the basement of the FBI building. The other is Reddit.Ayyyyyyy.
elaborate?
I use my dad’s basement to store my server computer and I have a lemmy instance there. And my dad works for the FBI as a janitor (he’s old so he bought the house for cheap).
Can confirm, I’m the bartender at the FBI (Fred’s Burgers & Iced Tea, we’re still working on the acronym though).
I work in the same department on the HexBear server, someone clogged the toilet again (whoever it is uses way too much toilet paper, they just keep wrapping), Anyways to save space we keep our Lemmy instances in the bathroom and the shitwater got to it.
I never gave reddit 1c and blocked all ads. I donate to lemmy.world.
I have zero anger when lemmy is down, I despised reddit, especially towards the end.
I really wish more people would donate to lemmy I think it’s totally fair to pay for someone to manage and help with running the site.
It’s hard to just say “volunteer”… Even if people volunteer and we can only afford to send 50% of their fee their way it’s still something…
If we want lemmy to thrive without ads we have to all pitch in. Just give 2$/ month… If we all did that we’d be able to hire people full time…
Lemmy[.]ca user for this reason haha
Cuz you can just use another smaller instance, as you should.
Lemmy.zip and lemm.ee are cool
Yeah, .zip represent
For all the people that like to talk about having access to the whole fediverse and decide for themselves who to block…
mander.xyz and ttrpg.network are both rather niche instances in their own right, but don’t defederate, and I don’t believe are defederated by, anyone.
No one join them and say/do anything toxic though, don’t ruin a good thing for me lol
Shhhh
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Everyone talking about how small and better lemm.ee is really starting to give “have you heard about this hidden gem The Witcher 3?” vibes.
lemm.ee isn’t even that small. It’s the 6th largest active lemmy instance iirc
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Hidden. Gem.
That’s the point of the joke, the witcher 3 is a huge game but people always act like they’re in on some secret for knowing that it’s good.
Celeste.
/r/tomorrow is leaking
How many copies do you have?
Another good one, yeah. Or Hollow Knight.
that’s exactly the reason I made an account here
