As a Fediverse user, I don't even care about these instances. What I am looking for is the communities to join, some handle to follow, but those are harder to find ;( I won't switch to Lemmy as a long time Friendica user, that kinda breaks the point of Fediverse
Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
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Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#102Earlier 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. :)
How does it know how long the password is? Shouldn't that just be hashed in the underlying database?
Perhaps it's a bug in the front-end?
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#103What 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 Feddit UK (https://feddit.uk/) as I realised that my primary use of Reddit was for the UK-based communities (DIY UK, UKPersonalFinance, Ask UK, UK Politics, Casual UK etc.)
It feels a bit sparse at the moment, but I'm hoping it grows steadily and not too much! :)
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
The vast majority of casual users don't care. They want something that works and doesn't get in their way with weird bullshit. If you want lemmy to be something other than a self-filtered community of misfits and outcasts, you need to make it convenient and easy to use/grok for casual users. Based on your reply, it's clear that lemmy will never be anything other than an afterthought.
Lemmy is what it is. Why is it on Lemmy to be what millions of Redditors want as an alternate to Reddit? Your reply seems so hostile when all Lemmy did is exist. This isn't a VC startup. This isn't even funded i believe. Why the hostility?
> ... This isn't even funded i believe. ...
It is currently being worked on through a grant from https://nlnet.nl/
https://lemmy.ml/comment/479066
> When our open source grant from NLNet runs out at the end of this year, we will have to switch to full community funding, probably via yearly funding drives. Currently we only have two full-time devs, @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I, but could potentially add more to our little worker coop as we grow.
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#105Earlier 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?
> Can you share the details of your setup?
I’m running OpenBSD 7.3 and manually compiled Lemmy 0.17.4 from git (I plan to eventually submit it as a port). I’m running lemmy-server and lemmy-ui behind relayd to ensure both are accessible (this is a bit finicky, refer to the nginx config in the official Docker container to see how everything needs to be forwarded to make federation work). Lemmy-server (the backend) is a single Rust binary and lemmy-ui (the frontend) is a single-page web application whose server side runs under NodeJS. The PostgreSQL instance that holds the data runs on the same Pi. I’ve not yet installed pict-rs (which is what Lemmy uses to host images).
Rust, PostgreSQL and NodeJS are all from OpenBSD’s ports.
I admit that this isn’t for everybody, so most will want to run the official Docker container.
> Do you host your RasPi at home?
Yeah, it’s in a closet at home. With Lemmy running it’s still perfectly usable for the kind of hobbyist development I otherwise use it for (I may eventually want to switch to a dedicated server).
> How does this defederation work?
Any one instance is totally free to block anyone else. Plus I’m guessing that eventually, as the Fediverse grows, smaller nodes are going to be blocked entirely to keep spam under control.
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spam is one factor, but biases is another that I don't see mentioned often enough. I'm on mastodon.social, see zero spam, and reading through discussions of past bans it looks as if smaller admins banned it because of tiny vocal minorities that might as well be individually dealt with. I also signed up to another instance (which I am not going to mention) and to hachyderm.io (which nominally caters more to techies, a…
> and the local timeline is full of To me this highlights my top issue with fediverse replacements for sites like Twitter & Reddit. I always want to be able to see everything . I do not care a single bit about the "local timeline" of my Mastodon instance (also hachyderm.io here). I have no desire to choose a Lemmy server based on its population. The thing I like most about sites like Reddit & Twitter is that they pro…
I think a better model might be that there is one central raw feed, that is universal but that instances just prefilter it for you. That way you can have the raw sewage with spam, or you can view a sensitized version that filters for content, or trigger warnings, or even just users. So it's like a single DB table with many views. So EdgeLord420_69 can see and even respond to comments by PrincessSnowflake... but PrincessSnowflake won't see EdgeLord420_69 comments because PrincessSnowflake is using a view that uses a user whitelist of known safe respectful commentators.
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does it know how long the password is? Shouldn't that just be hashed in the underlying database?
Perhaps it's a bug in the front-end?
Sure, but why would the code ever do anything that could result in failures of longer passwords? I'm struggling to think of a mechanism that could do that inadvertently. You almost have to do .length don't you?
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lemmy is what it is. Why is it on Lemmy to be what millions of Redditors want as an alternate to Reddit? Your reply seems so hostile when all Lemmy did is exist. This isn't a VC startup. This isn't even funded i believe. Why the hostility?
> ... This isn't even funded i believe. ... It is currently being worked on through a grant from https://nlnet.nl/ https://lemmy.ml/comment/479066 > When our open source grant from NLNet runs out at the end of this year, we will have to switch to full community funding, probably via yearly funding drives. Currently we only have two full-time devs, @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I, but could potentially add more to our little…
Appreciate the info, thanks!
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#109What 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…
Beehaw is a bit dramatic. I'm part of one of the most active lemmy instances, It only just brought in upstream lemmy as it forked 2 years ago when the community was created, because lemmy wasn't ready. Beehaw has some weird ideas about harassment and hate speech. Essentially civility and concern-troll like behavior cranked up to the extreme. The instance I'm on is a bit rowdy but has a tight culture and something lik…
Which instance is that, if you don't mind my asking?
Re: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
#110Wow. There's one with _three active users_ which has been blocked by 12 instances. Those three users must have been busy.
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