Saved this comment. It claims that the Lemmy frontend and backend are stateless and can be scaled arbitrarily, as can the web server. The media server (pict-rs) and Postgres database are the limitations to scaling. I'm working to deploy Lemmy with external object storage to solve media storage scaling and there's probably some database experts figuring out Postgres optimization and scaling as well. None of the instances are big enough to run into serious issues with vertical scaling yet, so this won't be a problem for a while.
Det enda jag kan tänka mig är om din heminstans blockerar en annan som du vill bidra till, du blir tvungen att skapa ett nytt på den blockerade instansen. Annars är det alltid folk som inte förstår federation och antar att man måste ha ett konto på lemmy.world för att delta i trådar på lemmy.world.
Ja tack, är inte intresserad av en /c/sweden som ligger på en allmän engelskspråkig instans. Hatar att läsa amerikanernas frågor om "Sweeden" och instansadmins uppskattar inte innehåll på språk de inte förstår. Danskarna har också sin egen instans och vi kan väl inte vara underlägsen dem?
@pumpsnabben@beehaw.org, att starta en instans är billig men att hålla den igång med bra uptime, säkerhet och skydd mot dataförlust när instansen växer gör det mycket dyrare och svårare.
Ni som har flera Lemmy-konton för att posta på olika instanser (era kommentarer visas inte på min instans men jag läser dem på lemmy.world): Det behövs inte. Du kan posta på alla instanser med ditt konto så länge de två instanserna inte blockerar varandra.
Representerar tidiga 00-talets årskull här då centraliserade, identitetsfokuserade, företagsägda sociala medier var den coola nya grejen när jag blev tonåring. Inga storskaliga användargrupper fanns kvar och självständiga forum var på väg att dö ut vid den tiden. Ville man snacka med IRL-vänner fick man skaffa Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter och Instagram. Jag skulle säga att det värsta med sociala medier är att fokuset ligger på att göra sig känd - eller ökänd - samt gemenskapsbildning kastas åt sidan. Så här får man den giftiga, egocentriska kulturen som präglar Twitter.
Som svar på frågan: ingen av de onlinegemenskaper jag varit med i (oftast på Discord) ledde till värdefulla vänskaper. De hade dock stor inflytelse på mina värderingar och förstarkade mitt intresse av FOSS och selfhosting. Inte så konstigt för min åldersgrupp men jag är en av de vars livsriktning och karriärval påverkades starkt av onlinegemenskaper.
This made me realize that I relied on Reddit a lot to decide on making tech-related purchases. I assumed that the contributors to Reddit's tech subs are enthusiasts who genuinely want to help others improve their systems and avoid scams. Thank you Reddit for being so open about sneaking sponsored content into discussions so that I can stop trusting your site!
Agreed, sort of. I use Bookwyrm but I don't get the appeal of "social reading". I don't discuss books with others because my taste in books is lame, my opinions are usually controversial among book enthusiasts and I would rather not have people looking at what I read. Bookwyrm is also apparently much more expensive to run per user compared to most federated services so I feel bad for costing the instance admin money. But I don't want to switch to a completely offline or personal instance because I like being able to sync across multiple devices and get book recommendations from the larger instance's database.
This comment also reminds me that my reading has been paused for several months and I should get back to it.
That, and for Lemmy specifically, its history of being a tankie forum. Without the Reddit refugee migration, if you joined Lemmy as a single user, you would be alone among communists and eventually get bullied into leaving. Already in 2020-2021, Fediverse users knew about Lemmy, but they avoided promoting it because of its userbase. This Reddit situation provided the push to get many normal users over to Lemmy at once to drown out the communist users.
A lot of VPS providers block port 25 (and other email ports) because they don't want people to set up bot spam mail servers on their services. Could that be the issue?
That makes sense, but I think what Smoke assumes from the federated mod logs is that if Beehaw bans me (a remote user) from beehaw.org and the ban message federates over to my home instance feddit.dk and lemmy.ml, I will be banned from feddit.dk and lemmy.ml as well. While it's unlikely that bans can federate between instances, I don't have any proof of this.
I believe it's ban logs that are federated, not the bans themselves, but I don't have any proof. Could someone running a personal instance test this by banning a remote user and see if they can still interact with other remote instances?
Note that if a user is banned by their home instance, it's expected that they can't interact with any remote instance either, as all of their posts will pass through their home instance first.
Given the number of bots on the internet trying to crack captchas, this is already happening. I don't think captchas are being used for AI training that much, since hCaptcha uses AI-generated images with prompts like "Select the images with a hamster eating a watermelon" for its tests. All of the reCaptcha road captchas I receive also have answer validation and won't let me pass if I answer incorrectly because of a misclick.
Yeah no, this "America Bad and backwards 3rd world country while us Europeans are so enlightened" circlejerk isn't constructive either. The American political system is terrible but a lot of European countries, mine included, are copying their "celebrity drama show" attitude towards politics because of extreme American cultural influence. We shouldn't deny our own problems.
Surely that already happened in the Code of Conduct drama a few years back? Or the "Linus is rude and difficult to work with" callout even before that?
He has American citizenship and lives in America, he's talking about America here. And I promise you that other countries, yes even those in the magical fantasy land of Europe, also have lots of political drama despite having more than two parties in the government (They tend to form alliances based on left/right and split into two blocks anyway).
Gloating? Complaining? I thought the FOSS community has matured past "creator's views = views of everyone who uses their creation", honestly. And isn't Linus supporting the Democratic party already well known?
The history is that Lemmy was originally created as an independent forum for communists. Later, the devs experimented with ActivityPub federation and created the first federated Reddit alternative. The software itself is neutral and can be used by anyone, but the original communist users of Lemmy before federation was implemented are still around. The politics of Lemmy's original community scared off a lot of potential users from exploring federated Reddit, but bringing more users and awareness to Lemmy will also attract politically neutral developers who can maintain a good alternative.
An alternative is not even necessary if the devs are able to leave their ideologies out of the software's design, which I believe they are doing well.
Saved this comment. It claims that the Lemmy frontend and backend are stateless and can be scaled arbitrarily, as can the web server. The media server (pict-rs) and Postgres database are the limitations to scaling. I'm working to deploy Lemmy with external object storage to solve media storage scaling and there's probably some database experts figuring out Postgres optimization and scaling as well. None of the instances are big enough to run into serious issues with vertical scaling yet, so this won't be a problem for a while.