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Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by jorvi »

8organicbits wrote: post #20
NoboruWataya wrote: post #2

What instances are people here using? I recently decided to give Lemmy a try. From what I had been seeing I was planning to sign up to BeeHaw, only to find that they had defederated two of the largest instances due to their lax sign-up policies. I can understand their reasoning and it looks like it was relatively well handled, but it still makes that instance impractical. I ended up going to VLemmy as it was one of t…

I'm on Beehaw, and I like the way the defederation was handled. Here's the latest from them: https://beehaw.org/post/594843 You can see some positive comments from users about the change and a transparent road map for re-federating. To put it another way, would you want to join an instance that isn't trying (or is failing to) contain harassment and other forms of bad actors? That's the challenge the de-fed is address…

> harassment

Harassment is such a vague term and has been stretched out to cover such a huge swathe that it can basically used to police almost anything.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by brainbag »

nologic01 wrote: post #29

Would be quite useful to add the focus of each instance (e.g. tecnhology, music, art, etc). Reddit migrants to lemmy would probably want to join specialized instances that resemble the subs they frequented. p.s. checking out beehaw I realise that lemmy can be run either as a reddit alternative (with lots of subreddits communities on different topics) or as a discourse type forum (with categories). thats good flexibil…

How do we explain what instance to join for people if they followed technology, music, and art? I have tried explaining this to friends, and there's new and unique vocabulary. I end up having to explain a bunch of other stuff too and their eyes glaze over. Is there an ELI5 or guided setup for people who don't want to deep dive into federation but want to talk about art, music, and tech (and memes)?

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by ticoombs »

distcs wrote: post #4

Is anyone able to sign up on any Lemmy instance. If I try to sign up, the sign up button just turns into a spinning wheel which keeps spinning for ever. It does not seem to be load issue. When I click sign up, the browser does not seem to send any request to the server either except for a request to "symbols.svg". Is the sign up button even working?

It's probably a problem with your auto generated password.

Passwords can't be longer than 20char. It's a bug. Also don't enter an email when trying to join initially, if you can. The UI waits for the email to send before returning. Another known bug.

Self plug: come join on https://reddthat.com. We currently don't have email requirements, or any "forms" to fill out before you join.

:)

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by Sakos »

ticoombs wrote: post #34
distcs wrote: post #4

Is anyone able to sign up on any Lemmy instance. If I try to sign up, the sign up button just turns into a spinning wheel which keeps spinning for ever. It does not seem to be load issue. When I click sign up, the browser does not seem to send any request to the server either except for a request to "symbols.svg". Is the sign up button even working?

It's probably a problem with your auto generated password. Passwords can't be longer than 20char. It's a bug. Also don't enter an email when trying to join initially, if you can. The UI waits for the email to send before returning. Another known bug. Self plug: come join on https://reddthat.com . We currently don't have email requirements, or any "forms" to fill out before you join. :)

> Passwords can't be longer than 20char

This has to be a bad joke.

> Also don't enter an email when trying to join initially, if you can. The UI waits for the email to send before returning

Sorry, this is supposed to be a viable alternative to Reddit?

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by ticoombs »

nologic01 wrote: post #29

Would be quite useful to add the focus of each instance (e.g. tecnhology, music, art, etc). Reddit migrants to lemmy would probably want to join specialized instances that resemble the subs they frequented. p.s. checking out beehaw I realise that lemmy can be run either as a reddit alternative (with lots of subreddits communities on different topics) or as a discourse type forum (with categories). thats good flexibil…

Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance.

So if you join a general instance (like reddthat.com #selfplug) you can search in the communities and find any other community and subscribe to it.

browse.feddit.de is the current place that searches every fediverse instance, and indexes all the communities. So your can find any community, even if the instance has not federated yet

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by valdiorn »

reddisbad wrote: post #30

Will Lemmy ever progress beyond discussions about federation?

Things that are destined to fail:

* Cryptocurrencies who's sole reason to exist is to justify its own existence. "We need token X to perform operation Y. Operation Y is important to facilitate the trade of token X". Seriously, how many tokens exist for the only purpose of being "gas" for its own network?

* Social networks that only discuss itself and its own existence.

* Programming languages where the largest project written in that language is its own compiler.

Solutions in search of a problem, is what they are.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by stinkytaco »

FlyingSnake wrote: post #25
irdc wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What instances are people here using? I’m one of many to run my own instance, letting me be in control of who I federate with (though there’s of course the risk of being defederated myself). It’s not for the faint-hearted, but doable, and doesn’t require much in the way of hardware (for me, a Raspberry Pi CM4 with 8GB of memory). I’d be willing to answer any questions people here might have.

I am also interested in self hosting my own lemmy instance just for myself and my close friends. Can you share the details of your setup? Do you host your RasPi at home? > risk of being defederated I was not aware of this risk. How does this defederation work?

An instance can block another instance from federating with it. So if I'm on instance "b" and it defederates instance "a", I can no longer see any of instance "a"'s communities or comments.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by Kiro »

8organicbits wrote: post #23
Sol- wrote: post #9

Needing to think about instances and having to create legends of features they support already dooms widespread adoption, but I suppose this can be fine. Small communities and spaces can be a benefit, though they'll be heavily filter-bubbled towards the tech/nerd crowd. Shame we don't live in a world where Reddit somehow turned into non-profit for the common good like Wikipedia before it monopolized forum culture and…

> having to create legends of features they support If you search for a new email provider, you'll see the same legends. Email adoption is not doomed.

Email adoption would be doomed if email was created today.

Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Post by ticoombs »

Sakos wrote: post #35
ticoombs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's probably a problem with your auto generated password. Passwords can't be longer than 20char. It's a bug. Also don't enter an email when trying to join initially, if you can. The UI waits for the email to send before returning. Another known bug. Self plug: come join on https://reddthat.com . We currently don't have email requirements, or any "forms" to fill out before you join. :)

> Passwords can't be longer than 20char This has to be a bad joke. > Also don't enter an email when trying to join initially, if you can. The UI waits for the email to send before returning Sorry, this is supposed to be a viable alternative to Reddit?

> > Passwords can't be longer than 20char

> This has to be a bad joke.

There are plenty of rough edges, that the community is finding.

> Sorry, this is supposed to be a viable alternative to Reddit?

It is an alternative that removes a problem that Reddit users were facing. Lack of Control. It gives control back to the users. I wouldn't say it's perfect but if a person doesn't want a company being completely in control of everything relating to that platform. The fediverse is that solution

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