LOL
It wasn't bad -- I just wasn't familiar with it.
leopardboy
joined 2 years ago
Yeah, if you've got a decent amount of Linux experience, I don't think you'll have any issues. Mastodon's installation is well-documented and works. My only criticism is that it's a bit long and you have to be careful not to miss anything.
On the other hand, I recall installing Pixelfed back several months ago and having a difficult time. The documentation was lacking, and it required me to use Arch Linux, which I had never used. I was able to get it working, but eventually terminated the instance after a while because I was never using it.
That's awesome! Running my own social media instances has become a hobby for me.
Having my own Lemmy instance has felt fairly seamless versus using Lemmy.world, but there have been some kinks. For example, when attempting to subscribe to a new community, the server has to pull a bunch of data first. This takes several seconds, but the UI simply says "not found" -- and then after several seconds, the UI updates with the community you want to follow. I figured this out by tailing the logs.
Also, the installation was pretty damn easy, especially when compared to Mastodon.
It's something that can be configured, at least at the server level, which is cool.
I'm running my own personal instance, and I'm keeping downvotes enabled. It's something that I'd really like to see, personally, but I have absolutely no judgement or concern for instances that choose to disable downvoting.
I do wonder if that's something that can be managed at the community level, though. I can definitely imagine some communities opting to disable downvoting, if their server admin(s) allowed it.
This method here will work.
- On this post, do you see the little rainbow Fediverse icon? Click on that. You're now looking at the original post on the server from which it originated. The post on lemmy.pethchat.org was federated to that server from lemmy.world where the post originated.
- Go to the search tool on your Lemmy server, and put that lemmy.world URL in there.
- The post will show up, and you can interact with it as it appears on your Lemmy instance.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
I ended up deciding to roll my own, which I realize isn't realistic for a lot of folks, but I would suggest lemmy.world, if you haven't already. There's also this list here that might be helpful.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Good luck!
The colors are amazing!
What might make you want to ditch your self-hosted Mastodon instance?
With Lemmy, I didn't feel a need to pick any specific instance because I can follow communities from anywhere, and it seems to work pretty well.
One downside I've encountered with my own Lemmy instance is that post and comment history in the communities I follow begins when I started following them on my new instance. New posts and comments are federated my way, going forward, but I don't have the ability to go back and view as much history as one would on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, for example.
The calculator is very useful when I need to calculate a tip. I also use the Shazam complication when I want to identify a song. Both come in handy all the time.
It sucked. It caused a lot of problems for our customers, resulting in our support team getting a lot of calls.
LOL
I admit that I haven't spent time in /r/sysadmin a lot these past few years, but it always did seem full of people whining about their jobs.
ROFL