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jax, 11 months ago

Oh yes, right, that is how it works with subscribing to a community.

Though, if I’m on my instance, and select a community from another instance to post in, the post ends up on that community and I have a copy of it (it seems, that’s what I did in this case).

Another comment mentions that if the community went away, I’d still have a copy of the content, which is interesting, though not entirely useful for picking up where the original community left off?

jax, 11 months ago

Ah okay, that’s not terrible, but would make a large instance going away a bit of a pain. At least the data’s not gone.

jax, 11 months ago

That’s true, it has been pretty seamless. Though, for example, my instance doesn’t seem to have any of the comments from this thread, and I’m not really sure why…

I might have spoken too soon, checking again and I can see them now. Also, interestingly, my mastodon account is following my Lemmy account and also able to see my main post plus the comments/responses, which is pretty slick.

jax, 11 months ago

Ah, maybe that’s part of the problem I’m seeing. I’ll have to check my language settings. Do you select a language per comment/post then? I’m not entirely sure the port of that…

jax, 11 months ago

Huh, apparently I'm up to 70+ instances, that's pretty cool!

jax, 11 months ago

That makes a lot of sense! Awesome, I think that negates a lot of the concerns I had at the start of this thread. Turns out people have already thought about these issues lol

jax, 11 months ago

True, I'm in the Lemmy Matrix chat and lemmy.ml keeps coming up cuz it seems super slow at times.

I am kinda surprised by how little resources Lemmy/Mastodon use up on a single user instance though. Significantly less than when I was trying to run a Matrix node.

jax, 11 months ago

Yeah, I haven't had too many major issues with Lemmy or Mastodon now that you mention it. Lemmy's install docs are... messy, but once running it's been without issue. Hats off to the devs for that.

jax, 11 months ago

Yeah, the only thing I can think of that would be worth using is for doing work and throwing up web browsers and IDEs and logs without being confined to a screen.

If it can do that well, I’d be interested.

jax, 11 months ago

Yeah, I haven't been able to justify their laptops lately. I had/have a 2016 MBP 15" that I gave to my dad last year since it was a bit slow for what I was doing, and since working from home I wasn't using it much. Would be nice to get either a desktop or laptop (or for them to release more desktop apps for iPadOS).

jax, 11 months ago

Those are good points. I think we’ll see others start to succeed more once the hardware price comes down. Apple has a habit of driving component prices down due to the shear scale of manufacturing they require.

jax, 11 months ago

I would agree with this, and we've seen similar attempts made by Reddit admins in the past to actively make the site worse (though this is particularily bad).

I think the main problem previously is that there was no where to go before so people begrudgingly stayed on Reddit. Now, however, with the changes made by Twitter within the last few months, the Fediverse has really taken off and more people are aware of it, and other potential options like Lemmy or kbin.

I think as long as content keeps being added (both posts & comments), that it will gain some traction. Long ways to go though.

jax, 11 months ago

Oh, I totally agree!

I think the Fediverse’s biggest issue right now is finding content and communities to connect with, which will be interesting to see develop over time.

I’m also interested to see if the uptick in instances will continue or if people will start to gravitate towards large instances due to it being easier to find content that way.

jax, 11 months ago

That's what I've done!

Federation seems pretty automatic, though getting content on a new instance is time consuming. For Mastodon, there are relays that you can subscribe to to get content into the Federated timeline on your instance, which is a good place to start. Other than that, you just have to start following accounts.

I'm the only user on my instance right now, but if you have more you'd also have a local timeline of things they post. With Mastodon, it's not possible (that I've found) to write top-level posts on another instance (i.e. to reach a larger audience of users for that topic), though you can reply to top-level posts (via your own instance).

With Lemmy, it seems like you can post to any community in any instance without too many issues, which is cool.

(This is only my second day using both Mastodon and Lemmy, I could be completely mistaken on how Federation works)

jax, 11 months ago

Yeah, seeing some of the comments on threads about the drama, a surprising number of people didn't even know that there were alternative clients for Reddit, which was a surprise to me.

It's kinda dishartening to see the number of companies which are (in effect) disabling their APIs due to massive price increases. Walled gardens and all that.

jax, 11 months ago

They recommend the Ansible setup found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

Their main docs site does have instructions for running via docker(-compose), but they seem to be pretty broken right now.

I'm running Lemmy and Authentik (authentication broker for my Mastodon instance) on one of the $14/month AMD premium droplets and it's working fine. (1vCPU 2Gb RAM). Though I'm the only user currently and my instance has only been up for about an hour lol.

jax, 11 months ago

In my other comment I mentioned some specs... not sure what it's like on the larger instances, but probably not too bad.

Not sure if it can be cached by Cloudflare... probably depends on what you want to cache.

jax, 11 months ago

Have you ever seen an issue where browsing the same post between your local instance and where it was posted has a different number of comments shown? There is one post in particular that I found where the main server has 20+ comments on a thread, but my server only shows 2 of them.

This wouldn't be so bad if there was an indication that the remote server had more comments on it...

jax, 11 months ago

I wonder what sorts of features this will have out of the box. Pretty sure all browsers on iOS are built on webkit, so not sure how much more than UI tweaks they can do.

jax, 11 months ago

Is it available yet? I realize the article is a little old at this point but I haven’t heard anything about a TestFlight beta.

Ah, found the TestFlight link, seems like it’s not accepting new users currently.

jax, 11 months ago

Is there any plans to expand the OAuth support outside of the 3 providers that are currently set up? Looking at the source, it seems like each has it's own configuration which pulls in things like the user's avatar and whatnot. It would be nice if generic OAuth was supported.

jax, 11 months ago

This is an awesome solution for running a matrix server. I used it to setup a matrix server on DigitalOcean for a while, but it was very resource intensive and expensive. Though, I did have all the bells & whistles enabled.