hosting freshrss locally and just tested that it can subscribe to reddit no problems (although I don’t want to) - their cloud instances should work : https://www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html

Great work. Thanks for all the effort and info.

we aren’t “competing”. We aren’t shilling for an IPO. We aren’t trying to emulate commercial social media. We don’t need 20% annual growth - or even significantly more users. We just need civil discussion forums without vitriol being deliberately injected to maximize ad impressions. On the fediverse, we are not the product.

you can run something like this on the host - make sure you use the correct container name

#!/bin/bash
# check the container name with docker ps first
container_name="instance_name_postgres_1"

echo "dumping pgsql"
# Backup command
docker exec -t "${container_name}" pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy > lemmy_dump.sql

suggest you not leave unencrypted backup on the host system but copy it somewhere else, preferably after encrypting it with gpg.

there are alive cats and dead cats at the same time.

right, which is how things would be if the overarching objective of all software was to serve the needs of the general public - and to improve the lives of the users vs the shareholders. That is is how we end up paying a hundred or so a year to use some shitty web site to file taxes. Sorry I didn’t know the o word was a no-no, I couldn’t think of anything else more apt without swearing.

I agree with you that Mastodon and Lemmy are quite different - the point of the fediverse is that you can communicate across them if you want. Here’s our conversation showing up in Mastodon:

Lemmy is more like Reddit - principally short, text-based, Mastodon is more like twitter and there’s a lot more graphical stuff there. Personally I find lemmy more intuitive - but I was never really into twitter, whereas I wasted a ton of time on reddit.

Interestingly in the screen shot above, the reply I made to the other poster about the NSFW instance that shows a graphic doesn’t show up - I don’t know why that is, but you can see our exchange shows just fine in Mastodon. In short, I prefer Lemmy but Mastodon has loads of photography and graphical content if that’s your preference - but you can most definitely interact between them. This should be a key factor as the fediverse matures and should help to ensure that our communities continue to grow.

reddit - built by the users, moderated and largely developed by enthusiasts, only to have the resultant content paywalled and mined by AI for the benefit of oligarchs. Truly a sign of the times.

Was originally introduced to reddit by a calculus professor who set up a sub for the class to collaborate - it was a different time.

not yet on Lemmy, although you can on Mastodon, so it’s doable.

I already blocked access to reddit on my network This is the way.

that’s very interesting. my instance shows the same stats as lemmy.ml - I am thinking this is possibly due to more restrictive federation settings on the NSFW instance - one thing that looks a bit odd is that on NSFW there are hardly any subscribers to their non-local communities, so I think perhaps they are restricting this locally - are you able to subscribe to lemmy@lemmy.ml?:

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

welcome home.

It might help to think about Mastodon, Lemmy and other fediverse portals as different email programs, like gmail, outlook, thunderbird. They all use the same protocol (mail) to communicate info. ActivityPub is the underlying protocol that makes the fediverse work but conceptually your instances are like mail servers some run Lemmy, some run Mastodon, but they all talk the same language under the hood.

subscribe to all of them and play with the feed options and sorting order. it takes a little getting used to, but it seems intuitive once you’re subscribed to a bunch of stuff. If the mobile clients develop this should become easier to manage from a UX standpoint.

of course. but Lemmy really does have potential - it’s a more accessible platform than Mastodon and reddit users are more aligned with the strategy of decentralizing via the fediverse. this fits.

we gotta start somewhere.

https://youtu.be/Zn06juaCNSA

lemmy feels more like reddit once did than reddit does now.

yep. it’s about quality, not quantity - we’ll reach critical mass easily enough, and that’s all that matters for the short term.

I realize how stupid I’ll sound admitting this, but I think the problem was that I wasn’t selecting the “community” in the pulldown, so the submit button wasn’t enabled.

yes, good suggestion, thank you - although before I do I’m going to spend a bit of time to see if I can isolate the problem - I just tested it from a mobile device and the local PC browser and it’s working now. I used the exact same url, text and everything to create the post and I didn’t change anything - didn’t reboot, didn’t even restart the browser. Except for the fact that it’s intermittent, it looks like some kind of js or css problem, but I need to replicate it and if I do that, I’ll probably be able to figure it out.