I’m very new to all of this federated stuff. One question I have is what happens to communities if a server is just taken offline without notice, indefinitely? Say the owner dies or something and they were the sole manager.
1 - I think we need to live with the fact that digital permanence probably isn’t good for us, and it probably isn’t something we can count on. I think websites and communities come in cycles, so we should collectively plan for both the boom and the bust.
2 - (respected) instance admins in Mastodon have a covenant they sign that provides a bit of a backup against this scenario: more than one admin per server (or at least have another trusted individual who can step in if the admin becomes incapacitated); backups in case of data loss on a hosting provider; and I believe at least some kind of terms of service that says racism/bigotry etc will be dealt with actively. (Correct me if I’m wrong here). I think users need to look for instances on Lemmy where admins can provide a similar set of guarantees
Edit: another point - I don’t think it’s immoral if people set up bots that can clone submissions to a backup instance in case of disaster, too. But of course there probably wouldn’t be a way to take the discussions/comments
So I CAN follow @startrek on my Mastodon feed but I am not sure how sustainable this will be in one feed when I really start finding interesting communities.
I think there will be some pain points crossing between Lemmy and Mastodon. The microblog feed is kind of a firehose when you follow a lot of accounts.
startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek for all your Trek needs. 🖖 :trek:
I have never before received so many reactions and comments on my Lemmy posts before, so it's obvious to see, that there are many new members here.
Welcome to all the new! And I'm looking forward to see more of you here.
Cheers!
The yunohost package is broken and outdated unfortunately. It’s a version behind and it doesnt support image uploading (for users submitting content OR for admins adding a server logo).
I have never used Ansible before yesterday, and I figured it out in about 15 minutes using the official Lemmy documentation. I’d encourage anyone reading this who is considering administering an instance to skip the Yunohost package for Lemmy at this time.
I don’t want it to seem like I am talking down on the “Lemmy for Yunohost” package maintainers. They are doing a job I could not do, and for zero compensation. It’s just unfortunately not receiving the attention it needs for production purposes, IMO