In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...
Are server costs just generally cheaper/easier in colonial countries to run or is it purely a money and time thing?
They are cheaper. Locations outside US/EU and very few countries in Asia are sometimes called “exotic” and can be a bit expensive. Lemmy also has this issue where servers that are distant from each other lag behind.
Hmm… I wonder if its a regional thing. It only asks to open in the app if I’m not logged in. I can browse NSFW communities and posts if I am logged in on Firefox Android. If I log out, it will ask me to download the app.
Yup. Sorry about that! I don’t think anything like that happened on the second migration (May 15) only the first (May 12) but if you noticed any, let me know!
I’m glad you think Ani.Social was the better pick!
For migrating away or remaining on the EU, I will likely migrate back to Asia. The biggest benefit is that it’s closer to me and I think having Lemmy in other regions is in line with the decentralization idea behind the Fediverse.
The servers are very cheap in the EU though. Also, most of our traffic is from EU/US. So there might also be a chance we stick around.
Thank you! I didn’t have to migrate the object storage for pictrs. It’s still in the US I believe (Backblaze put me there for some reason. I don’t remember an option to pick when I made an account.)
Yeah, it’s my first time migrating (and running) something like this. It’s almost been a year and it’s a lot of fun. What I’ve been using for backups is a cronjob and pg_dump. I heard some people use other tools like barman and backrest which I want to try. I’ll check out rsnapshot too though!
Thanks for the heads up! I heard that privacy laws and such are more strict in the EU so I’m reading up on what other Fediverse instances are doing about that since many of them are located in the EU.
That’s what Reddthat is doing from my understanding but their project doesn’t have enough documentation for me to understand how to use it. I could move ani.social to Europe or US but I’d prefer to have the server closer to me (and to avoid centralizing all Lemmy instances in two regions).
I think the Lemmy devs are working on it but it looks like a fix isn’t coming until 19.5.
In this case, I might just move ani.social already (likely tomorrow). At least temporarily until a new fix comes.
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