Well now looking at it from my desktop it's no longer a 404. It's an SSL certificate first and a broken XML right after. Whatever that book is, the tech gods don't want me to view it.
Actually I have built an AutoMod myself, just a few days ago.
The configuration is a bit clunky, unfortunately, mostly because of lack of UI support. I plan on making some changes to my instance's UI to make this a bit more feasible, and of course those will be open sourced just like the bot, but it will take me time.
Apps? As on your phone? No, that's not the way it works. You can host your own instance. I would in fact recommend it, if possible. It would give you the best Lemmy experience possible. But here's the thing: the machine where you run the instance has to be on 24/7 or as closely to that as possible, it isn't enough for it to be online when you'd browse Lemmy.
Here's an oversimplified explanation of how federation works: say your personal instance is disappointingintro.com and you're federated with lemmy.world. Any time something happens on the lemmy.world server (upvotes, comments, posts...), the lemmy.world server will send a "message" to the disappointingintro one notifying it of what just happened. The disappointingintro server has a copy of everyting coming from lemmy.world, where all of these updates are written into. When you view a lemmy.world community on disappointingintro what you're really viewing is this copy.
Because of this, if your instance was hosted on a phone, said phone would need to communicate constantly with the federation. If it didn't you'd miss out on a ton of updates and you'd only see a fraction of the content.
The actual way to do this is either to self host it (meaning installing the server on an older PC or laptop lying somewhere in your basement), assuming you know how to do that, or rent a server from someone else to host it on their server for you. Both take some degrees of technical expertise and have some expenses, which is why public instances exist, most users can't be bothered running their own instance.
Is the link broken? I'm getting 404s
- No one is stopping you from hosting your own instance and doing just that.
- I'm sure people will just love it when they'll be told that they can move from Reddit to this brand new decentralized social network for the small fee of 5€/month to pay for their own VPS hosting their own instance (provided they are also experienced sysadmins). I'm sure that will not hinder the platform's growth at all.
I've heard a rumor around the dev channels that a feature taking care of that is coming with the next update, users should be able to block whole instances locally.
However who you end up getting federated with should probably be your main criteria when picking your home instance. Lemm.ee is awesome because it's federated with almost everyone, but if you can't stomach that maybe you're in the wrong place.
If you really have a problem with those people, instead of complaining you should move to an instance that's defederated from them.
Many of the big players have.
Beautiful. But it would be tough to make moderation work. Administration too, for that matter.
Let's gooo. I'm famous!
EDIT: I also see you very often, it goes both ways
You do it if you want to, it's a game :)
You can make decent money off it, but first and foremost it should be something you enjoy. Personally I think that's a very chill way of breaking the monotony, after having spent too much time flying around or walking through cities to complete quests. Exploring planets has got the nice plus of not having to deal with loading screens, unless you want to get back to your ship and move to a different biome.
I don't really get all the "'all' is bad" discussion. Isn't that what the "subscribed" feed is for? Just sub to the communities that interest you and browse from there. Just like it was back on Reddit.