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Whoa, definitively interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Smaller lemmy instances runs great on a raspberry pi 3 I've heard.

Different experiences I suppose. Used Contabo to host an ansible setup of Lemmy, never had a single outage for 6 months.

I know how it is to have a hobby where it's hard to find someone to share it with. Really niché stuff some of it. I find that my hobby comes from a passion for doing something for the fulfillment of doing it. Or the enjoyment of the end result.

When it feels like a draining chore I some times realize my hobby has grown into a commitment, a chore. Not something that lifts me and brings positivity any more.

I guess it's no longer a hobby but just something I used to enjoy. And often miss enjoying. But everything changes, such is life. Sometimes it's time for me to move on.

The first federated social news aggregator that solves the issue of a bazingorillion duplicate communities/magazine/AP forums on every instance - i.e. through multireddits - is my new home.

I've selv-hosted this directly from my home IP - no problem!

Of course it didn't federate and was only open to friends and family behind an SSO portal so random visitors would never know - I'm not crazy. That would be like building a stage and send out invitations (in many ways as intended), but I used it as a warehouse and installed lockable doors!

A lot of services people would think of as "internet sites" works great with self-hosting, it's mainly just a matter of thinking things through. People that fuck up spectacularly and get on the news for openly hosting the hottest shit to like 500 million users just for the hell of it... Those are the type of people we hear about.

We never hear about those who lay low and never get in trouble, regardless of the legality of the contents.

The next best solution

Interesting, I'll check it out once it's back up.

If it's automatically connect to "friends-of-friends" instances and subscribe to all communities, that's a great idea! It would basically crawl the known network as long as there was a single link between instances. It would particularly be a boon to smaller instances that would be much easier to connect to.

If it's a regular instance ran as a community server with the aim of manually subscribing to everything as an emergency solution to this problem then eh... I literally did that a year ago with like 20 instances. I think that's not feasible, or even worse - exclusionary without intending. If it's all manual and everybody goes there because we think it's all-encompassing... If one is not on the list they don't exist to the world.

Yes, the !gaming-communities already federated to your home server.

There is most likely a lot of !gaming-communities you're not seeing.

Make a dummy account at a different instance, create a new community, search for it on your home server and see if it shows up or if you have to search for the community with an URL and pull it to your instance.

I know what you mean, and from that point of view I agree. I have different values and so I use different measurements; A connection to a small instance is equally valuable as a connection to a big instance. It's not about the amount of content but building a new paradigm of social media.

Well, we will end up with 160+ !gaming communities and no way of finding them other than word of mouth or actively checking every single instance and subscribe to !gaming - If they even have one.

It's been a big issue for the two years I've been on Lemmy and I don't believe the most used argument, "It will sort it self out, the community will balance it out".

I'm not too bothered, I have mitigating procedures. I would be very interested in having this discussion again in a year, I feel this is one of the matters that only time will tell if one or none of us is right.

The link also refers to BB: The number of instances that this instances is completely Blocked By. If this number is high, then users on this instance will be limited in what they can see on the lemmyverse. and lists how many other instances every server on that list are blocked by.

When it comes to the overselling of Lemmy and the interconnectivity, what can I say? I'd word it very differently.

Anyways, from a technical point of view I'd say it's close to what you describe - With third party instances working as an intermediary in some way. The issue is that there's no "sync" for communities and historically we end up with three different versions of i.e. !gaming, one on each instance. What Lemmy need is some sort of multi-reddit/funneling/taggins system so you can just post to a !gaming community - And then it'd be rejected by those who've blocked you. But everybody else would get it.

I don't see how one out of 160+ servers not connecting to sh.itjust.works would cut you out from the rest of the world.

I think of it more like being cut off from 1/160th of the fediverse. Unfortunate, but in the end a type of community I don't think I'll miss since our values don't align.