silly judgemental post not meant to be taken too seriously (unless you agree with me in which case im dead serious)
feddit.de is best ;)
so isses
sh.itjust.works my beloved 🙌🏾
Unfortunately, shit very frequently doesn’t work here
Just my cue to go out to go outside. ☺️ (sh.itjust.works server admins care)
Shit works just enough
All i’m sayin is lemmy world doesn’t need any more users it’s aldready too big
Too big to fail!
The biggest fall the hardest
We’re the ones keeping this ship afloat.
Lemmy.world’s bot problem is 1000x worse. No contest if this is the choice.
Yeah but .ml is completely infested with right wing trolls pretending to be leftists which is super obnoxious
I very rarely encounter right wing trolls here. Most of the ones I meet are from .world, sh.itjust.works or more niche instances
They should add the ability to move instances imo
Iirc being unable to do that is a problem involving ActivityPub itself, so it’s not Lemmy’s fault.
cuddles blahaj
Gulps down maple syrup in support.
🦈🦈🦈🦈
I run my own tiny instance so that I can feel special. And so that I can overspend on cloud infrastructure and stress out about uptime.
How does lemmy run for you? I get weird blocks of bad gateway every once in a while
It runs perfectly fine most of the time and then will occasionally lock up my entire server until I reboot.
I’ve been working on getting some better monitoring and log aggregation set up so I can troubleshoot what is actually happening but it’s a bit slow going. As of now I can’t tell if the database is getting overloaded, if the frontend is getting spammed, or what is going on really.
My instance has two users and it runs on a VPC with 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM.
lock up my entire server until i reboot
Check the ram usage on postgres. Theres a dataleak issue thats being monitored with a proposed fix in the next version (which is upgrading to the newer version of postgres)
Thank you! I was secretly hoping someone might have a quick suggestion of something to try. I’ll see what I can find out.
Yeah no problem! My workaround solution is simply just restarting the postgres container when i notice ram usage spiking
How does federation work with hosting your own instance? Do you need to request federation with instances or is yes the default?
Was thinking of hosting my own instance just to tinker around with
Federation is open by default but I never post anything to my home instance because no one is there. If I started posting on my own instance other people could theoretically subscribe to my communities the same way I subscribe to communities on other instances but since there are only two users on my instance it’s pretty unlikely people would find it without me crossposting somewhere.
Benefits of me running my own instance are that I control my own user account and I’m not at the whims of another admin. I subscribe to content on lots of other instances and it all federates into mine which means I’ve been able to browse content when some of the big instances go down. I’ve got my own entrypoint to lemmy which feels a bit more neutral than choosing another instance to be ‘home’ for my user.
Downsides are that I have to pay for and maintain it myself which can sometimes be a serious pain. Because my instance only has two users my ‘local’ feed is basically a copy of my ‘subscribed’ feed plus a couple posts from communities that my wife subscribes to that I don’t. That can make it hard to find new content without using something like lemmyverse.net.
If you’re thinking about hosting your own instance I encourage you to give it a shot. I’d highly recommend the lemmy-ansible project on github which is both a guide and playbook for deploying the various lemmy docker containers using ansible. I’m a sysadmin by trade so running services like this is something I’m pretty familiar with but I’ve still found myself frustrated by Lemmy more than once. It’s still a young project and can be frustratingly brittle and difficult to troubleshoot. That being said it’s been a great learning experience and makes me feel like I’m doing my part to contribute to a better and more decentralized web.
Because my instance only has two users my ‘local’ feed is basically a copy of my ‘subscribed’ feed plus a couple posts from communities that my wife subscribes to that I don’t.
But if you switch to “all” instead of subscribed and sort by active or hot you see the popular posts on all of lemmy, right? And you see all the communities under /communities link?
No. Only communities that at least one local user is subscribed to is federated into that instance.
And I realize I made a mistake in the feed names. My local feed is completely empty. My ‘all’ feed is what I was intending to describe with that comment. It is just the communities that either my wife or I have subscribed to. I haven’t done this yet but I was reading about a project that admins can add to their instance that effectively creates a phantom user to subscribe to lots of content all across the fediverse. It’s intended to help bridge the gap between very small instances and the rest of the fediverse by ensuring that your ‘all’ feed actually aggregates content from other instances without requiring you to subscribe.
I’m blanking on the name and can’t find the posts I saved about it, but I’d really like to try it out to make it easier to come across new communities organically without having to hunt them down.
Ah thanks, very interesting to know.
It’s very unlikely I’m going to run my own instance, although I would like the freedom to tinker with the web client. Probably going to try to just run the UI client locally at some point.
Some follow up, what are the costs related?
I assume you have to pay for a domain.
I already run my own media server from home and I have a spare PC, are you just saying the electrical costs or do you pay for server hosting?
Great write up, thank you
Nothing manual required, you can federate with any other instance as long as you’re not on their ban list.
You basically use your instance’s search to search for a community on the remote instance, then your instance requests the top (5?) posts from the community on the remote instance. Once a user subscribes, all new posts going forward will be sent to your server via the federation.
At least I think that’s how it works, haha.
beautiful human being
They’re both awful, but .ml is definitely a lot worse.
Why does it matter if it’s all federated anyway
It does and it doesn’t in some key ways. Luckily we all have the option to register somewhere that aligns with our individual personal values (or selfhosting). However communities tend to grow on the large instances since the high user base gains automatic exposure via local and all’ feeds. Meaning while we can choose who to trust our account with if the biggest communities are hosted elsewhere you’re at the mercy of large instance admins either way.
IMO the local feed needs to die for this reason. A few big instances shouldn’t be able to set the course for all of Lemmy by deciding what instances get community growth.
I like the local feed. As a smaller instance user it’s nice to see what’s going on.
world is the lesser of two evils, but I still recommend going for a different instance
lemmy.world requires an email and defederated from hexbear
lemmy.ml doesn’t require an email but gets you banned for “genocide apologia” when arguing to vote for biden on hexbear or arguing that liberalism and fascism are two different things.
I came to lemmy thinking tankies are a myth so I had to learn the hard way :D
Me on the first and only instance in Korea (which I created and operates): laughs
Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. Lemmings use the instances, but they are mere trespassers. Only I, Vor, know the true power of the Fediverse. I was cut in half, destroyed, but through the dormi.zone, the shitposts called to me.
Ah yes, gotta love seeing Captain Vor invading other realities just to monologue another time before the cutting in half cycle continues as it always has and always will.
Wow, I think that’s the first fedi instance I’ve ever seen that’s more or less dedicated to a single video game. Very cool.
They’re not the only one!
Man, I forgot about pricefield.org but it’s still the cutest looking instance out there
I just wanted to be on the instance that gets updates the fastest :(
What are some alternatives people suggest?
I like sh.itjust.works because it has the best name. Also the admins seem cool.
Also Canadian and on renewable energy.
i joined it back when shit and world were the new, small servers. I still can’t believe shit got so big and world is now the biggest
I’m quite fond of this one. Admin is easily reachable and reasonable IME.
yeah and we get to have profile pics and pictures in comments, which isn’t on instances like lemm.ee
I have embedded photos though. I’ve used them from time to time. Dunno about profile pics
When we updated to 19.whatever a couple months ago the admin (founder? idk what the appropriate term is) pushed out some changes that allowed image uploads as long as they were below a certain size
I hadn’t noticed this, thanks for the info
IIRC lemm.ee disabled all image uploads following one of the waves of attacks a few months ago. It’s possible this has been since reverted as things had died down for a bit there.
You can have pictures in comments, just not hosted on lemm.ee. Proof:
Image uploads have always been size-limited on lemm.ee because sunaurus anticipated it becoming an issue, if you were planning on using lemm.ee as an image host you were on the wrong instance in the first place when he shut uploading down completely. What you do get with lemm.ee is everything else being snappy.
https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
This page lists all instances but also recommends some random ones with medium userbase and high uptimes. The idea of Lemmy is that users are spread out. Lemmy.world is massively inflated with users.
The problem with the smaller instances is that there’s less support and it’s more likely to shut down.
