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Is there any opened instance of socialhome?

Julia Evans (@bork) writes about her experience of running and using a single-person Mastodon server. The post also links to other people’s experiences in-between.

In my experience, once a community reaches certain size, it grows organically. But reaching that cricial mass is hard....

article headline: Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X...

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/349464...

I read on reddit that on Lemmy you can see users’ upvote/downvote history. I therefore expected to be able to see upvote/downvote breakdown by user for my own comments. But couldn’t find this. Does this feature exist or is that a myth?

Many of us came from Reddit and are still exploring Lemmy by browsing “Everything” or “All”....

In the Fediverse, what is the solution to instances or servers going missing?...

I use alexandrite to switch between different lemmy instances and change the default post layout to card style. When I first started using lemmy, the I found the difference between the reddit and lemmy in the post feed to be jarring as I was used to a card style layout....

I get the general gist, like email different instances can communicate with each other but beyond that I’m lost....

I’ve made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It’s available at schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance....

On my Threads profile, I changed my featured link to be my Mastodon profile URL....

TLDR: the article says , lemmy is confusing , too broken and kinda unusable coz servers run on whims....

Sorry, I stopped using Reddit for way less than what people in the fediverse have done....

Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions!...

By advantage I mean posts from those instances receiving more visibility than others on feeds that sort by score (active, hot, top)....

I am considering creating my own lemmy instance as my current instance (lemmy.world) is often down, and I enjoy this kind of a project. That being said I haven’t been able to find any resources on hw needed for this? If I have a raspberry pi 4b 8g with 128gb is that enough for just me using it? Do I need to pay for a cloud...

Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the...