I’m not really tech savvy but can follow directions pretty well. I am trying to create a local lemmy instance for my country and want to contribute to the community with a local server....
You’ll need a domain name to start. If you plan on hosting any communities, you’ll want to secure it as well, I’d recommend a cloudflare account, use their DNS proxy and then only allow traffic from cloudflare cdns so as not to expose your server directly. You’ll also want to configure the Web application firewall to block bots, known malicious IPs, that kind of stuff. To manage this, you’ll have to host your DNS in cloudflare and create and install an origin certificate on your host server.
If you are comfortable with Linux and command line (you’ll want to know at least the basics to get you by), then you can deploy via ansible. Lemmy has a nice little doc that mostly covers everything.
Feel free to ping me if you have some questions.
Oh and if you are having your instance send mail, you can use the service built in, but it’ll get flagged as spam. You’ll need either a SMTP relay service like sendgrid or SPF records so that receiving email servers can verify its coming from your domain.
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The com at the time was dominated by discussion of the Prodigy cancellation, so it was a relevant topic and not being overly critical for the sake of being overly critical. It presented an opinion of the cancelation that wasnt predicting doom and gloom for the franchise like the mod line being pushed at the time.
Even if it isn’t substantial, why isn’t there a list of blocked domains? Or a rule about it? It could have spurred a discussion in the comments, what makes a community forum like this so special. The point is it didn’t violate any community standards. Then when I tried to open a discussion about it to try and refine the rules/community standards moving forward (early days of reddit emigration) I was permabanned for starting drama.
I’m not looking for a com where everyone is super critical. I am looking for one where mods are acting as petty little tyrants banning well meaning contributors because they don’t have the exact same opinion on certain things as they do.
The mods are more interested in the reddit community and it shows. It’s clear Lemmy is downstream of reddit to them.
Its original intent was to filter good vs. bad content. Prior to karma/voting systems, message boards were just a list of the most recent posts by anyone. With a voting system, people can decide what content best fits the community’s purpose. If I post a dog image on a cat forum, people can downvote the post so newcomers aren’t seeing dog pictures on a forum about cats. Without karma, you’re relying entirely on moderators to manage that. It’s basically crowd sourced moderation.
Karma has other issues for sure. It can be manipulated with bots. People tend to use it to say “I don’t like this opinion” and not to say “this opinion is within the domain of this forum”.
All of that being said, I believe karma systems should be hidden from the users. Jerboa is an Android app for Lemmy and it shows the karma count. I don’t prefer that. I like being able to vote, but I don’t want to feel the bias of “big number == good opinion”. But I think karma is a good system for helping moderate the content that shows up in a forum. It’s a democratic way of managing content. But it probably has room for improvement.
Hi, I recently acquired a pretty solid VPS for a good price, and right now I use it to run Caddy for two personal sites. When I moved to Lemmy I found about this awesome community and it got me really interested in selfhosting. I won’t be asking for tips on what to selfhost (but feel free to add what you use), there’s a lot...
Unfortunately what seems to be the cached version of lemmy.fmhy.ml is now slowly disappearing from Cloudflare. Those 2 comments have now been lost as well along with most of the content.
You can think of it like group chats. Each and every chat is an instance. And to be federated just means that two chats have agreed, that there is one person who copies the text from one chat to the other. In principle this, but much more organized with communities (sub groups) and subscriptions and the like.
Now in reality this is much more complicated, because people want to be identifiable across instances, which is why you can’t have just one person in the chat posting Just the text, they need to mention who it was that texted that.
Losing the domain was like the person who was in both chats disappearing and you can’t register with their name, but someone else doing what they did, would mean that everyone would need to update their filters, because “I said the first time, that I don’t care about your weekend, Carl!”
This is a completely valid option and one that more people should consider. You don’t have to selfhosted everything, even if you can. I actually prefer to support existing instances of stuff in a lot of cases.
I use disroot.org for email and cloud, and I’m more than happy to kick them a hundred bucks a year to help support a community. Same with fosstodon.org for Mastodon. I’m fully capable of self-hosting these things, but instead I actively choose to support them instead so that their services can be extended to more than just myself. I chose those two because they send excess funds upstream to FOSS projects. I’m proud to rep those domains.
Right, for a huge enterprise they would probably honestly consider it, but a school with ~1000 students? Less? It’s going to be cheaper to trash those and get new ones. Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a terrible waste and Google is horrible for putting them in this situation, and I’d love for the open source community to offer some scripts for wiping, installing ubuntu, setting up ACLs, connecting to a domain, connecting shares, etc, but still most schools are going to see this and just say “Okay google how much money do you need for us to keep working?”
While I don’t agree with the author’s use of “major CSAM problem”, if you browse instance federation list, you might notice a few mastodon instances that suggest they might be a MAPs community at best (domain name like pedo-school, mapsupport, etc usually with cute dolls in their banner image). They are closed community so can’t see what happening inside.
This is not an answer that will work for growing Lemmy. Most people do not want to buy a server and domain name to use Lemmy, and then they gotta learn how to use Linux and docker and figure out how to get it all working? Most people don’t even know what Linux or SSH is. And then they need to read a huge list of instances to see which ones they want to block? And they gotta worry about keeping it up to date, and security issues, and watch the disk space usage. They would rather just stay on Reddit instead.
Also your solution still doesn’t address blocking/hiding posts but not comments, or hiding posts in the feed but still showing them in searches or in the specific community.
I’ve subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My “Subscribed” feed only contains a few of the same posts that I’ve seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in “Active”,...
You’re doing Lemmy wrong, and it’s not your fault. People keep saying “instance doesn’t matter” - sure, you can interact with anything all over the main lemmyverse, but the best experience is to find a home server with a community that feels right. Subscriptions and the sorting will get there, but right now ALL (or maybe even local) is a way better experience
Here’s the servers I checked out:
Lemmy.world
What I signed up on. The most people, the most content, civil community. Moderation is there, but you mostly feel it by the sense of civility. They keep getting targeted and they’re experiencing a lot of hiccups, but they’re the biggest source of content right now. Feels to me at this point
(Sh.itjust.works)[sh.itjust.works/signup] About as close as you can get to freedom of speech while keeping out the aggressive bigots. I think one of their rules is along the lines of you can drop n-bombs or argue for whatever you want, but not use slurs against actual people. That says a lot… But they’re great for shitposts and are experimenting with democracy at !agora
(Beehaw.org)[beehaw.org/signup] I’d describe it as a safe space. Heavy moderation and curation of content. Those kinds of places feel uncomfortable and tense to me so I find it hard to give it a fair review. Not my thing, but they claim to be closest to Reddit… I’d give lemmy.world that title, but it was a big site and I was constantly searching out the medium sized subs.
(Lemmy.nsfw)[Lemmynsfw.com/signup] A stable server that will show you plenty of sfw content, and the community is welcoming. And of course, there’s the obvious…
(Blahaj.zone)[lemmy.blahaj.zone/signup] The flip side of why I go to sh.itjust.works, lots of queer shitposts. I like the memes, I like the people, not so sure about the admin… She’s been stirring up a lot of drama the last few days. Maybe there’s more to it, I’ve mostly just seen her posts that look a bit power-trippy from a distance. I’ve also been waiting for that to happen to see how we as a community handle it, so
(pawbs.social)[pawbs.social/signup] This is my main home server now. A while back I came to realize furries are always big early adopters of every new tech, they’re super welcoming, and they don’t care if you’re not a furry so long as you don’t care that they are. I like the art anyways so it doesn’t bother me. A lot of tech stuff too. They are most definitely furries though, and you’ll see OwOs and all that comes with that. They’re very chill, until someone isn’t, so if you can’t handle that you’re going to have a bad time
(Lemmy.ml)[Lemmy.ml/signup] The original devs instance. They’re going through some stuff with their domain and definitely anticapitalist, but after digging for evidence and talking to them they’re far from extremists, but the constant stream of people heading over to there to pick a fight, the site was on edge when I went there a few weeks ago. A good place if you’re into good faith debate on economic and governmental systems
lemmygrad.ml was a more extreme version (literally someone came in to start a fight in every thread i saw) they’re understandably pretty wary. Their ideas are out there, but they’re definitely not pro genocide and don’t worship Stalin (at least as a whole).
Lemmy.ml I wouldn’t pick until they get their domain issue shaken out, but I included them because after an afternoon trying to get to the bottom of it (the only proof of anything I found was a mastodon post about someone very vague about what was said and ending with “unfortunately the conversation was deleted”), so it seems to me they’ve been getting misrepresented. I’m very open to more concrete details though
(Dbzer0.com)[lemmy.dbzer0.com/signup] They sail the high seas. Less content, but what was there was pretty interesting if you’re into tech, security, or digital rights
Those are the sites I remember off the top of my head after exploring around, there’s >2k instances (although about 100 were populated by users when I went through the data dump a few weeks back)
If you’re on Android, I’m doing bug fixes before launching my app very soon, and iPhone build is coming once I can get one to test on. I pushed back the launch to pack on features, I’ve got keyword filtering, you can explore servers without changing accounts, it saves your place, hides read posts, it offers URL replacement (I accidentally went to Twitter for possibly the last time today and YouTube yesterday, the logo change was worth it but nitter is less jarring).
You can interact with Lemmy links, collapse comments, post with a control bar that doesn’t float around, save drafts, and it’s all in a dark material-design style (but with way less cards). There’s still a lot to be done, but after bug fixes and optimization v2 will be focused around combing feeds and accounts to get just the right mix. Eventually I’ve got eyes on pixelfed and maybe even things like friendica - the beauty of the fediverse is how amazing a foundation it is to build on
For today, there’s still occasional bugs and jank, but at this point I can say it’s pretty stable when the servers cooperate. I’ll be covering for more and more of it through the client as time goes on, but for the last 2 weeks I’ve been using it exclusively. My friend convinced me I need to wrap it up and put it out there and get feedback, so
Check out !flemmy if you’re interested, I just posted some screenshots (it will get prettier, but hopefully it’s good enough to not be distracting)
As the title suggests, I’m interested since I’ve got the hardware, I’d like to have my own on the go streaming nest. Any self hosting suggestions? Anydesk, Rustdesk are not viable at all.
Quick history: Nvidia used to provide their own in-home streaming solution called GameStream. This was built right into their GPU drivers and was fairly easy to set up. It had 2 issues.
The streaming quality was good but it only worked with Nvidia GPUs.
The streaming frontend however, was shite.
Programmers being programmers decided to make open-source alternatives to both of these. First came Moonlight as a better streaming frontend on PC, Android, Android TV etc. Sunshine was also developed as a version of the backend that was hardware agnostic.
Nvidia then decided GameStream was distracting too much from Geforce Now and removed it from their drivers. This was widely regarded as a ‘dick move’. Thankfully, the previous 2 projects already existed, and the new interest in them hastened development.
This is good to know because coming into this new, you might wonder why both projects’ documentation mentions GameStream a lot. It’s legacy and dictated the goals of the projects.
For actual setup…
Start with Sunshine on your actual gaming PC. The currently maintained version of the project can be found here.
Sunshine has a pretty clean setup so just follow its steps and you should be good to get going initially. I personally set it up as a Windows service so it starts at boot when I WoL my PC. It might also request to install a controller driver which I’d personally let it do to avoid any input headaches.
Moonlight is even easier depending on the device you’re using. It’s straight up on the Google Play Store and I assume other places. The most technical part of the setup is that it might request some specific port-forwards, but I’d assume if you’re on this community, then you won’t have a problem with that. To get your Sunshine and Moonlight to communicate, you’ll need to get ML to ping the IP of your SS PC and produce a link code which you then input into the SS web UI.
If you’re wanting to play on your PC remotely, then that’s also possible! You’ll either want to just expose the requested Moonlight ports publicly and connect to your public IP / domain name, or (what I do) setup a Wireguard VPN on your local network to connect to (I don’t like exposing too many ports).
I didn’t proofread this essay so sorry for any nonsense I’ve written.
I am very new to self-hosting and Lemmy and the Fediverse so it’s entirely possible I’m missing something simple here. I have spun up my own Lemmy instance and have added lemmy.world to the Allowed Instances. For some reason, I’ve stopped getting content from lemmy.world communities and I am getting a lot of logs saying...
Was this feature not a thing 3 years ago? I don’t know why it bothers me, but I wish they would add some banners for their more active communities. It makes it just a little bit more official looking....
If an instance were to leave the fediverse do we loose all its data? Say for example iPad Lenny.ml domain was seized or was forced to shutdown so we loose all communities from that host? Do we not see any posts? Can we still post to it? Seems like a big flaw if we have multiple large instances that can shutdown a significant...
If an instance goes down (permanently), federation of all of the communities hosted by that instance essentially stop. The content that has already been posted remains but anything new added to those communities only remain on your home instance. The only way for federation to resume is for that instance to come back online with the same domain it started with.
It would have hurt early on, but no so much now. They locked the instance down, quit accepting new users, and banned users being able to create communities themselves stating that the goal of the instance was to be a carefully curated one and they considered it “complete” and no new communities would be created.
They’re not even in the top 15 instances by users anymore.
The biggest impact would be that Lemmy.ml is the developers instance but I imagine they have backups of everything and would just register on a different domain and transfer everything and everyone.
You’ll have to go complain directly to the W3C for that. The situation is Lemmy may fix it with some custom protocol extensions, but then it’ll still break every other piece of software that follows the spec like Mastodon, Kbin and others.
It’s like adding a 6xx status to HTTP. You technically can, but expect every standard compliant clients to be confused and bail on it.
You can’t just change domains with emails either and have everything seemlessly migrate over. Not losing a domain is not a completely unreasonable assumption to make.
Thankfully the users and communities aren’t lost, it’s just that people outside of fmhy will have to resubscribe to the communities on the new domain.
I think a lot of them were tankies who thought it was cool to have ML in their domain name. They have lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml iirc. Honestly I don’t know whether to be happy those communities took a hit or sad that I might lose one way of identifying and avoiding auth-left instances.
Thanks for that, was concerned about keeping my subscription to that community. Keep us posted and let us know where you end up so I can change over my community subscription.
Anyway I think the lesson learned here is don’t use free TLDs. Lemmy is not at all designed to deal with domain name changes.
lemmy.ml is still up as of right now. Possibly they contracted a subscription to the domain name to keep it up. They had to do something to retain it otherwise the site would be unreachable. If lemmy.ml does have to change names it will be a hassle since I’ve got a good number of community subscriptions there.
This wouldn’t happen to an instance with a regularly subscribed domain name. Problem is the .ml domains were free and the associated country decided to claim them back. The risk of using a free top level domain is something that should have been considered. I don’t think it’s worth the risk versus the cost savings considering how difficult it is to migrate a Lemmy instance.
This is not the solution! Being able to pick a server to trust your data and content moderation with is a feature, not a bug.
What we do have to do is make this feature more resilient and easier to use. Like adding the ability to easily transfer accounts and communities between instances, or even change the domain name of an entire instance.
How to create a Lemmy Instance using AWS or some kind of cloud service?
I’m not really tech savvy but can follow directions pretty well. I am trying to create a local lemmy instance for my country and want to contribute to the community with a local server....
All Star Trek fans now have a home on Lemmy World (lemmy.world)
Attention StarTrek fans! You’re new assignment to the Fediverse has arrived. All hands, boarding has begun! Make it so! Join us at the exclusive home for Star Trek on Lemmy.World!
stop asking for a karma system (lemm.ee)
A few questions about selfhosting from a newbie
Hi, I recently acquired a pretty solid VPS for a good price, and right now I use it to run Caddy for two personal sites. When I moved to Lemmy I found about this awesome community and it got me really interested in selfhosting. I won’t be asking for tips on what to selfhost (but feel free to add what you use), there’s a lot...
Ideas wanted
Hey all. Ive been hosting some software for a while now, some private, some public stuff....
The first 2 comments made on the now dead FMHY instance shall remain remembered (lemmy.sdf.org)
Unfortunately what seems to be the cached version of lemmy.fmhy.ml is now slowly disappearing from Cloudflare. Those 2 comments have now been lost as well along with most of the content.
Docker + Nextcloud = why is it so difficult?
TLDR: I consistently fail to set up Nextcloud on Docker. Halp pls?...
Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
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Why is my Lemmy experience feeling so lame? **UPDATE**
I’ve subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My “Subscribed” feed only contains a few of the same posts that I’ve seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in “Active”,...
What do you use for self hosting a streaming service like Geforce Now?
As the title suggests, I’m interested since I’ve got the hardware, I’d like to have my own on the go streaming nest. Any self hosting suggestions? Anydesk, Rustdesk are not viable at all.
Lemmy instance not retrieving content from federated instances
I am very new to self-hosting and Lemmy and the Fediverse so it’s entirely possible I’m missing something simple here. I have spun up my own Lemmy instance and have added lemmy.world to the Allowed Instances. For some reason, I’ve stopped getting content from lemmy.world communities and I am getting a lot of logs saying...
Looking for a email-provider where i can host my own domain (feddit.de)
Not really about selfhosting, but I read that a lot of selfhosters do not selfhost their emails. Should have pop/imap....
Why do so many Lemmy.ml communities not have banners?
Was this feature not a thing 3 years ago? I don’t know why it bothers me, but I wish they would add some banners for their more active communities. It makes it just a little bit more official looking....
Question about Lenny? If instance leaves
If an instance were to leave the fediverse do we loose all its data? Say for example iPad Lenny.ml domain was seized or was forced to shutdown so we loose all communities from that host? Do we not see any posts? Can we still post to it? Seems like a big flaw if we have multiple large instances that can shutdown a significant...
Lemmy.ml/c/ps5 is moving to Lemmy.world/c/ps5
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1934052...
What Happened to lemmy.fmhy.ml? What Happens if an Instance Disappears?
What Happened to lemmy.fmhy.ml? What Happens if an Instance Disappears?...
lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] (very.bignutty.xyz)
An update:...
Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
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