I don't have it set to private because when I tried that before it seems to break federation entirely. I do however have to approve anyone who wants to join. At this point I'd probably allow my close friends to join if they wanted, but that's about it.
Mostly because I am nearly 100% positive I will either lose my ZFS array, try to move the server to different hardware and bork psql, or what have you...
My homelab is mostly duck tape and bubblegum.
I think for philanthropy to even be a possibility your company needs to be profitable first. Reddit has never been profitable.
But I get your sentiment.
My instance current has.... One.
I'm on the app right now and I find the jank kind of charming.
It's part of the reason I chose to host my own rather than depend on another server somewhere. That way when I do fuck it up at least the only person to blame is me
Yay federation and activitypub!
I'm glad I went the self hosted route for this, but I can tell federating with other servers that some of them are HURTING. Particularly Lemmy.ml. Taking a while to get subscribed to communities there.
That's ok we have /c/linux now.
It really kind of is. Personally I'm still getting how communities work while self hosting, but it's allllll coming together.
You did a good job.
Not only that. They are a for profit company that is extremely dependent on volunteers to moderate their subs. I feel like they are going to learn a hard lesson about alienating your volunteer workforce.
My partner's crappy HP all in one that charges insane prices for ink seems to work fine whenever I rarely have to use it.
Hmm weird. The server is supposed to notify me of a pending join request.
I'll look at it tomorrow.