Almost everything has been mentioned already so I just stick with the unusual: I host a private MediaWiki instance for note taking in my pen and paper rounds. It’s amazing once the other players got a bit more comfortable how to use it well regarding templates, categories and articles. My only regret is that I didn’t set up new instances per gaming group.
Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network...
I agree, I don’t particularly see this as an actual issue… Nothing stops you from subscribing to both.
Just like there could be a [email protected] and a [email protected]. Nobody is confused with emails when it comes to this… The difference is that it’s slightly more work than reddit because r/aww is one particular thing and it’s assumed we’re talking about Reddit because of it’s unique format. Here it’s just c/aww on lemmy.ml, but that’s a bit of the point of the !aww structure of naming.
I LOVE that there’s !aww and !aww. Different communities ran by different groups will end up with different content. Then I can shop for the content I want myself.
Nobody can singularly own the name. I always found that to be a big problem on reddit. r/trees comes to mind, if there was an actual arborist community that want r/trees, well they were fucked. And that’s kind of jacked. This way it doesn’t matter. Just pick a different instance that doesn’t already have c/trees and post there… or better, start your own instance to host it.
I don’t know… in the future people could even start up instances of lemmy on domains like lemmy.jobs, lemmy.help or lemmy.hobby to aggregate major communities based on topics. lemmy.jobs for instance could be an instance that houses professional the arborist and the domain would make it clear the intent. Or even better… drop the lemmy all together and register jobs.social or similarly descriptive domain names.
I know we’re all a hodge-podge of domains now because a lot of us are just spinning up instance on domains we already have… but the potential is there.
95% of the people or groups I would want to follow are not on Mastodon.
And frankly, the Fediverse isn’t as user-friendly. It is a but tougher when you have to choose an instance, as well as learn how to follow from other instances.
Do you host any Fediverse instances for family (Mastodon, etc)? Curious if you get your family to use it and what headaches when linking to other instances....
While I’m not interested in encouraging /r/selfhosted users to leave reddit, I thought it would be good to have some discussion around the possibilities for a selfhosted community on lemmy....
You don’t need to move ftom lemmy.ml. You’re a group of self hosted gurus, so this is your chance to actually self host. Don’t hide behind excuses that lemmy.ml won’t be able to handle things. Just do what you do best and host your own instance. Sounds bloody fantastic to me!
I’ve noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like ‘cats’ will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list....
Yes, I’m certain I could final answers to all these questions via research, but I’m coming here as part of the Reddit diaspora. My guess is that there’s a benefit to others like me to have this discussion....
the idea that my account is hosted at an individual Lemmy server and that other servers trust that one to validate my account
I can't stress highly enough how much this isn't how it works.
You basically never directly interact with other servers. Instead, when someone on your host site first subscribes to a community hosted on a other site, your instance pulls in some recent posts from that remote site and then requests that all future content from that group be forwarded along to it. Then, people on your local site interact with that mirrored content, and your local site sends local additions back to the original host for syncing.
Your account only exists locally. You're always reading locally, and you're always acting locally. Everything else is servers mirroring and forwarding content.
📢 Call for papers: New Social Perspectives in Medieval #Philosophy
Guest editors: Jenny Pelletier and Ana María Mora-Márquez (both University of Gothenburg)
In the past forty years, the analytical tradition in philosophy has experienced a social turn with the result that areas such as social epistemology, social philosophy of science, and social ontology are at present some of the most innovative and vibrant. We have reason to think, however, that this recent turn must have had a precedent in past philosophical traditions where the social was part and parcel of philosophical discussions and elucidations. In particular, we believe that the late Middle Ages is one of those past traditions.
With this in mind, we have proposed a special issue to the Brill journal History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis, with a focus on the social in medieval philosophy. The journal has accepted to publish the special issue in a rolling model in which articles appear online first upon acceptance after peer review.
We welcome abstracts that shed light on aspects of medieval philosophy where the social is crucial, particularly in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of science and social ontology or metaphysics. The following is a list of possible topics:
For social epistemology and philosophy of science: the roles of testimony, trust, epistemic authority, peer disagreement, social objectivity and rational criticism (for instance the role of fallacies in critical examination) in the production and dissemination of (scientific) knowledge; pragmatics in reasoning; the sociology of medieval science.
For social metaphysics: the nature and production of social entities (or objects or facts) such as social groups (e.g. religious orders, corporations, political communities, the family, nations), money, property, artifacts, and so forth; the role of language and the will in their production; the role of obligations, norms, and practices in structuring and individuating social groups; the possibility of non-human social groups.
Submission information
Please email an abstract of 500-800 words and a short CV by 30 June, 2023 to either of us at:
If that would be possible, how would you moderate comments, seeing how random things can get?
I don’t know what you mean? If I am the admin of an instance or the moderator of a group, I could delete comments or is this just not possible?
Federating with only approved finstances (federated instance)?
Why doing this? Wouldn’t it be enough to block the illegal instances and those who are explicitly against your topics?
What if you keep your blog, then push every post you make there to your solo-community on a finstance? You can engineer your comment section on the blog to pint here or fetch the comments content from fediverse to your blog…
I am trying to be as green as possible. Having a blog on one server and the comments on another sounds like an inefficient way of using resources. Why not just put the articles where the comments are?
With Mastodon I had the same idea, that I will publish an article, post a link with short description on Mastodon and then use the Mastodon post as the comment section, then edit the blog article and put the link to Mastodon on the end of the article with a simple text link like “Comment section”.
But even this idea felt a bit odd and more unprofessional.
Lemmy looks like a really good solution to this atm.
Lemmy.ml has long had some political conflict among the userbase, especially in communities like worldnews. This is because the instance is composed of both leftists (anarchist/communist) and liberals (those who agree with the mainstream political views in western countries). Additionally, the instance admins all belong to the...
Email is already nicely federated, but I think it’s time for a change. Services like protonmail claim to offer encryption between users, but you can’t host your own instance. It would be awesome if there was a spec somewhere for a federated email service that defines...
What are YOU self-hosting?
A simple question to this community, what are you self-hosting? It’s probably fun to hear from each-other what services we are running....
Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?
Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network...
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)
Hosted Fediverse for Family?
Do you host any Fediverse instances for family (Mastodon, etc)? Curious if you get your family to use it and what headaches when linking to other instances....
What is the Right Place for the SelfHosted Community?
While I’m not interested in encouraging /r/selfhosted users to leave reddit, I thought it would be good to have some discussion around the possibilities for a selfhosted community on lemmy....
Is there a way to create Super Communities?
I’ve noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like ‘cats’ will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list....
Some Lemmy Technical Questions
Yes, I’m certain I could final answers to all these questions via research, but I’m coming here as part of the Reddit diaspora. My guess is that there’s a benefit to others like me to have this discussion....
Can lemmy be used as a blog (with comment section)?
I am looking for a fediverse solution for a blog and I tried it with writefreely, but it has some disadvantages I can’t live with....
A response to goosefetisch (lemmy.ml)
Why do I feel like so many people here support the USSR and the CCP?...
Free hosting for liberal/mainstream political instance
Lemmy.ml has long had some political conflict among the userbase, especially in communities like worldnews. This is because the instance is composed of both leftists (anarchist/communist) and liberals (those who agree with the mainstream political views in western countries). Additionally, the instance admins all belong to the...
Someone should really revamp email
Email is already nicely federated, but I think it’s time for a change. Services like protonmail claim to offer encryption between users, but you can’t host your own instance. It would be awesome if there was a spec somewhere for a federated email service that defines...
Lemmy's origin story. (lemmy.ml)
I thought this would be good to share, its an excerpt from an unpublished interview written in december 2020 about Lemmy’s origins and goals....