No. We should not give them our money.

If anything then we should post more links to relevant original Lemmy content on other platforms.

The parent’s text in visual form:

Alternative would be that defederation happens on user- not admin level, which we’re getting closer to with 0.19 where users can block instances and don’t need to rely on the admin. This hopefully will lower the need for admins to defederate so many instances them selves.

I think most of the problems you mention I’m mitigating by hosting my own instance. And that makes me to see lemmy as a set of forums instead of a reddit alternative like you propose.

Reddit cannot rely on other instances to provide content for its users. As such, it hosts all its content in a single, general-purpose instance.

I would rewrite the second sentence into “As such, content it doesn’t like is not possible to be hosted on their single, general-purpose instance.”

People who code in Rust would do an amazing job if they focused on instance creation and management.

Instance creation and management does not require coding skills. It’s a very different skill set, one of system administration and web hosting.

Your feed depends on which instances yours is federated with

I think it’s the other way around, your feed depends on which instances yours is not defederated with. You can always kick in the federation with an instance by subscribing to their communities and then see all of those.

Interface developers should expect users to have 2+ accounts

That is just a ugly workaround, I hope we can come up with something better.

I also didn’t quite expect it to stick around for that long with so many people. It’s my main new source actually (I have some additional but anyway). I kind of switched from Mastodon to Lemmy when it comes to consumption of social media.

Great, thanks a lot for the explanation!

The import/export settings, I wonder if this will also allow to export the communities I’m subscribed to.

I think it’s because you are an administrator on this instance. If you create another normal user, which is not an administrator or a moderator, you should not see those removed by moderator posts anymore.

With Mastodon yes because it caches everything on your server, but with Lemmy no, because it hot-links media from the other server without caching it.

jeena@Abraham:~/lemmy/volumes$ du -sh *
8.0K	lemmy-ui
5.2G	pictrs
2.8G	postgres

I’m subscribed to around 50 communities for about 2 months.

For those two specifically I’d suggest to host one yourself. You then are 100% in control over blocking users/instances and the latency is super short because you’re the only one on the server. That’s what I’m doing.

Nice, I really like the bigger thumbnails, it almost would remove my wish to auto-expand the pictures. The original thumbnails are so small …

Better cross-posting detection support, subscribe to all 3 communities and I’d appreciate Lemmy could understand that this is the same link in those 3 communities and visualize it as a cross-post:

• https://lemmy.ml/post/2729129
• https://lemmy.ml/post/2758146
• https://lemmy.ml/post/2758383

I meant if you’re building the ARM version yourself or where are you getting it from?

So how are you making it work?

Yes it would. Another one written in elixir and no federation stuff in is https://github.com/ckruse/cforum_ex

Even with federation the community is bound to an instance, so once the instance goes down the community is down too, at least the federation of the community as far as I understand. So it is already a single point of failure.

Oh you went for the ARM CPU? I was looking at it but then I thought that there is no ARM docker container for lemmy, was I wrong?

How many communities do you subscribe to? I thin that is what will have the biggest impact on the database size.

I run a single user instance and I subscribe to 47 communities from 12 servers.

Most of the time I see 3 requests per second from the other servers.

I’m running on the cheapest Hetzner VPS with aditional storage, because the 20 GB are not enough for lemmy and the OS.

The load is most of the time at 0.2

Unlike mastodon, replies/comments wouldn’t appear in the feed

You can set this in Mastodon today too:

In my opinion we already have software for microbloging like Mastodon, micro.blog, Pleroma and so on, but I’d understand if people don’t want to host two different technology stacks for microbloging and link aggregating. And /kbin does it already.