Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don’t want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?

  • KNova@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You end up as the ultimate decider on what you federate with. If you join someone else’s community you might not agree with their administration or moderation decisions.

    It’s a fun exercise in system administration, it taught me some new things. It got me interested in Rust as a programming language (not that you need to know that to run an instance - I was just tinkering w: source code)

  • chris@l.roofo.ccEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Yes. I am immune from the beehaw/lemmy.world drama or similar. I can block instances as I please and I can tinker with my instance.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I can tinker with my instance.

      I didn’t even find a SANE way to set it up with Docker without having to tinker with the instance. I just want a container not generating half a dozen of other containers and volumes.

      • Fauxreigner@lemmy.fauxreigner.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        A single container for everything gets away from the point of containerization. If you have a single container for lemmy-ui, lemmy backend, and postgres, you need to rebuild that container whenever any one of those applications gets an update, and they could start to interfere with each other. Keeping them in separate containers makes everything a lot cleaner, it just requires something like docker compose to put it all together.

        Did you try the Ansible install? Provided you’re installing onto a supported Debian/Ubuntu version, I found it fairly straightforward.

  • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    There are two big benefits in my opinion.

    1. Speed and responsiveness. When the bigger instances were (or are) overloaded, my Lemmy experience was still fast and snappy. Content was slower to update for those big instances, but navigating Lemmy itself was still fine, and it gave me an opportunity to engage with some smaller communities.

    2. Control of federation. I decide who to federate with, and as long as I follow other instance and community rules, I won’t get defederated.

    The biggest downside is that I can’t discover new communities organically since I’m the only real active user of my instance. Nothing new gets federated unless I seek it out. But I solve that by using a fediverse indexer every week or so to search for popular or interesting communities.

    • ﾌ卂ㄖ卄乇卂卄@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      But I solve that by using a fediverse indexer every week or so to search for popular or interesting communities.

      Is there a way to automatically federate with other instances? Because I started my own Lemmy instance, and its annoying having to manually go to every community in order to federate with it. (The instance is for my own personal use, so I won’t be opening registrations)

      • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Absolutely, there are two tools I use to do so.

        1. Lemmy Community Seeder - Very customizable tool that by default grabs the top 50 posts in the top 50 communities of the specified instances every few hours.

        2. Lemmony - Less customizable tool that by default grabs pretty much everything. Probably less ideal for larger or more active instances, but my instance has 5 or 6 users, only a couple of which are active, so this tool has been awesome for populating my “All” feed.

        I recommend creating a non-admin bot account and using that for these tools.