Awesome.
I could survive on a set like that for the rest of my days.
Not brand new or 2160p but MarshalN's Gaiwan Youtube video is still excellent content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqP3lFPd1bw
SnailMagnitude
joined 2 years ago
They are saying it's hard to figure out as it's hard to figure out. It, as you say, has a learning curve that isn't really present in Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok etc.
Choosing an instance seems important. Many of the large instances are overtly communist, quietly communist, piracy, porn, nsfw focused or a safe space for lgbtq+ people. Instances are changing hands and de federating each other. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of GDPR type agreements about user data. If a server vanishes with all your data, can you legally retrieve it? Are they obligated to delete data on request? who is they?
Choosing communities is complicated. There is massive duplication of communities across instances most of which have have very little content or members.
The apps are all alpha quality from what I know. curious about accessibility options too, r/blind was hit hard.
Whilst I was trying to get a grip on how Lemmy & kbin interact, Lemmy seems to have blocked kbin access.
I think I could sell Lemmy to the average linux user but it appears I don't have to as most of them are here anyway. It's the other 99% of the user base that's the issue.
Honestly I wouldn't even bother trying to convince my meat space techy friends at the moment never mind a non-techy community with a few hundred thousand iphone and windows users.
I'm trying to be generous, whilst being largely ignorant, and consider he is responding to a hierarchy that have an 'over my dead body' approach to changing the traditional ways and perhaps he is just informing them that tradition has an option for that sort of thing.
and/or it does seem like he could well be a horrid person.
On the plus side I was both shocked and happy to learn Japan has very recently changed the age of consent from 13 to 16 whilst also recognizing consent in the context of rape which does seem like a step in the right direction. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65887198
I'm very new here and curious if I could ask as it sounds like you know what you are talking about.
My self hosting skills are extremely basic. I have an 8G Pi4 I run jellyfin, navidrome and a few other bits and bobs on. I'm scared of opening ports on my home network so use Timescale for external access. Could I run a personal Lemmy instance like this? Can I interact with other instances via Tailscale or do I need to actually open ports?
Resource wise what would a personal instance require in the cloud? Would something basic like a 512mb 10G droplet from Digital Ocean suffice?