leopardboy

Do you happen to recall about when that happened?

I remember buying a 250 MB Seagate hard drive sometimes when I was in high school in the mid-90s, and I think it cost something like $250, but I'm really not sure.

I didn't have this problem with Mastodon, but totally had it with Pixelfed. I don't think Pixelfed, at least at that time, supported relays. I scraped around pixelfed.social to find people to follow because I had an account there. It didn't seem possible at the time to see profiles on public servers, without having an account, so it was hard finding people. It was something I was used to do doing on Mastodon. In the end, I didn't have a positive experience running my own Pixelfed instance, and just decided to use pixelfed.social.

I do follow the developer and he's been making a lot of great progress. I've got the mobile app, and it's quite decent.

Sure, it would keep the origin from being publicly accessible on the Internet, but you would want to put that server on its own network, anyway.

Sorry, I don't know. 😕 There is a Lemmy-like project called kbin which has that ability, from what I've read others say, but it's not as mature as Lemmy (which still has several rough edges). I don't speak from experience though -- I haven't checked it out yet.

Basically just the hastle of maintaining and hosting it. My ideal situation would be an instance with a few people, where we can share some of the burden, and perhaps cost. But maybe that has its own headaches when there is a falling out etc.

All very good points. I wouldn't mind sharing the costs and burden with some folks, but I'm pretty happy just maintaining it myself. Again, for me, it's something I enjoy doing.

There are also other drawbacks with your own Mastodon instance in terms of discovering new people, as a lot of those tools are geared towards the server scope, and Mastodon prohibits a full index search.

I never really had that problem, but then I started out on other Mastodon instances and just migrated my account around until I ended up on my own personal instance. I also participate in several relays, which helps a lot. In the end, I've also spent time looking at the public feeds on other servers and browsing their profiles to find people. Another thing I did was participate in conversations, which was a good way to get mutual followers.

With that being said, I don't follow a ton of people either. I read my entire timeline, chronologically, so I keep it pretty tailored. I disable boosts and mute/unfollow people often.

I actually don’t know what the Lemmy policy is on indexing, but a way to search the entire Fediverse (or at least large parts of it) would help tremendously in popularizing it, I think. I understand why indexing would be blocked, but that seems a lot like security by obscurity to me, which I don’t think works very well.

Lemmy indexes everything on the server, as far as I know, which means you should be able to find local content and content federated to the instance.

LOL

I remember looking at a computer catalog back in the late 80s when it cost $500 to buy a 20 MB hard drive. Oh, that didn’t include the controller, so it cost even more money. I remember buying $200 worth of RAM at Best Buy in the mid-90s. It was $50 for a 1 MB SIMM.

Today we can buy 60 inch televisions here in the USA for for hundreds of dollars, which would have costs thousands over ten years ago.

I don’t predict to know the future with prices of the Vision Pro, but I expect cheaper options at some point.

I’d be curious about one, as well, considering the AWS outage the other day which prevented me from using my Roomba.

This documentation might be useful to answering that question.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/04-moderation.html?highlight=report#moderation

There's no way for you to follow a Fediverse account from Lemmy, at this time; however, as you know, it does work the other way around.

I miss The Orville! It filled a huge void for me.

I had my subscription show pending, as well, but it was working just fine. I was able to get it showing properly by unsubscribing (just clicking on the button showing it pending) and then re-subscribed and it showed me joined properly.

Yeah, you generally wouldn't want to run a public Internet server on the same network as your personal systems.