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It says my browser is not compatible. What is this web... Do I need to switch to chrome if I want to read someone's post about fediverse now?
You should upgrade your browser, since IE6 is no longer supported. (If you don't want us to assume what your browser is, you should say what your browser is.)
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This one comes to mind immediately: https://xkcd.com/927/
I would propose this one: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Or maybe this one:
Or possibly the last panel of this one:
Or this one…
…Or this one:
I started to look into hosting my own Lemmy instance to have full control over my data and not have to worry about a server shutting down, but after seeing it takes 2-3 docker instances, I decided not to worry about it and let someone else do it.
An “instance” here being just a walled-off process running inside its own chroot environment. IIRC Lemmy needs 4: frontend, backend, database and imagestore. It doesn’t need much resources when running, though.
Is there a way to have like a backup cloud solution in case my electricity goes down at home and my self hosted server shuts down? Some cloud service that does nothing most of the time except backing up data from the self hosted server from time to time and monitoring if it's up and connected to the internet, and if it's not then it takes over and offers the same service.
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Classic. Tools become too abstracted? Add a layer of abstraction to manage them. Feel like there must be an xkcd comic on this, but it doesn't leap to mind yet.
Software becomes so complex that it becomes vulnerable. Add more code, i.e., more complexity, to "fix" the problems.
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I see what you're saying. OTOH, you can belong to several Lemmy instances at once. In that sense, it's kind of like phpBB. Which forum do I want to join? The set that covers my interests today! Maybe you like to argue about Star Trek vs Star Wars on a Sci-Fi Lemmy/phpBB, and learn to make soufflés the French Cuisine board of a Cooking Lemmy/phpBB. You don't have to join the Cooking instance and then limit yourself to…
Yeah, that's true. Others have said it elsewhere in this thread, but I wish identity was more independent in the fediverse. If federated services just used OAuth or something, your identity could be portable between Mastodon, Lemmy, and PeerTube, and you could use several instances without having to manage a bunch of different accounts. Heck, you wouldn't necessary _need_ accounts, they could just be implicitly creat…
One huge shortcoming of the Fediverse as currently implemented is that you have to use a different ID for each app, ie tube.jeena.net/@jeena, toot.jeena.net/@jeena, etc. What if you want to use the Mastodon UI to write a comment on a video? Your comment is going to use a different ID than the one you normally use to interact with videos. Given this, what's the point of federating these different apps with each other?…
A blockchain might actually be a decent solution for this. Just make it so the tokens don't have value.
And as soon as you introduce this, pay for the many becomes profit for the few, and inevitably markets, trading, and rent-seeking cartels form who swiftly capture the natural value confluence points of the system, reversing any decentralizing tendencies it may have, and collapsing it back towards centralization in order to consolidate and protect their advantaged position.
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Couldn't someone make a Docker instance that, inside it, contains the 2-3 other docker instances? I hear it's docker all the way down.
The Nextcloud All in One (AOI) images takes another approach, which is use the first image to launch the other needed images. So it lets you avoid docker compose at the cost of needing to pass the docker socket to the AOI container.
I kept having issues, like I tried to stop the container and it left all the extra containers it made running. They also had different network settings than the ones I set on the parent container. I don’t remember the exact issue but I had to manually adjust the network that it made- because it just made its own and ignored the one I assigned the parent container too.
It was the easiest way to get Nextcloud running but I immediately stopped it. I don’t want Nextcloud able to tamper with my other docker containers. I want it contained.
I haven’t yet had a chance to figure out how to get their containers running normally.
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And even when you give them an app and basically spoonfeed them with the alternative, the small group that has come before will act like a bunch of elitist NIMBYs who will cry about their small "community losing character".
You write this as if the Eternal September problem doesn't exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September