Osayidan

There’s 2 things to consider.

First since this is all relatively new there’s a bit of a gold rush for starting communities, eventually a couple of major communities across instances will emerge for different topics and those will stick, this will make things a bit less impractical from the point of view of an average user.

Second is if we ever get functionality on lemmy to create the equivalent of a multireddit, where you can group as many communities as you want into a single curated view (either for yourself or shared to the instance) then this becomes a non-issue.

u/spez: “…like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”

also u/spez: replace the mods

Off to cloudflare I go, was already planned but I’ve been lazy about it.

That’s what the protest should have been, disabling automod rules, and the human mods going on vacation. Maybe announce a “no rules until further notice” to entice additional chaos from regular users.

Call it Federeats

To be realistic we need to pick and choose what to keep and expend effort/resources on those chosen things.

Without a technological breakthrough in data storage at some point there’s got to be some kind of triage done. We all generate more information now than ever before, and this trend just keeps increasing. With things like A.I, XR, the metaverse or other similar concepts it’ll also get exponentially more insane how much data we generate. It’s not realistic at the moment, technologically or financially, to keep all of it in multiple geographically distributed copies, in a format that will last forever. For a lot of people or organizations it’s not even feasible to keep one copy in some cases due to costs.

To do otherwise we would need a breakthrough that enables insanely cheap, infinitely scalable storage, that is immune to corruption (physical or digital) and optionally immutable to prevent modification. It would have to function in such a way that any reasonably advanced civilization can use the basic laws of physics to figure out how it works and consume the contents without any context of what the devices are. It would also have to work regardless of how fragmented it is, to use terms of today’s technology if they only find one hard drive out of what used to be a pool of 100, it still needs to work on some level.

It’s an interesting thought experiment and hopefully there’s some ridiculously smart people working on it.

Nope @[email protected] got it right, starcraft.

You must construct additional pylons

no I used docker. I think some of the issues with it have been fixed upstream now but there were a few broken things and missing elements to the documentation.

You stay on beehaw (or whatever you created your account on), and subscribe to other instances. You can then see other instances content via beehaw, and interact with it as if it were local content.

In my case I am hosting my own instance of lemmy, and subscribed to [email protected] to see/interact with this post. I am replying to you now from my own instance of lemmy running in my home server.

I know there were at least a few projects not affiliated with IA that basically was a mirror copy of reddit. No idea what has happened to them at this point have not checked in a long time.

I like the concept, and overall experience. On a more technical side getting my own private lemmy instance up and running (I wanted to retain full control of my account) was not easy due to somewhat lacking documentation on the process. Had to dig through posts from other people having similar issues, and do a bit of troubleshooting to fill in the gaps.

Now that I have it working will see if I can find the time to do a writeup on the process if others are looking to do the same.

Hopefully once the issue of the ridiculous amount of resources needed for such a service is resolved. This is why we don’t have any viable youtube alternative yet, especially one that isn’t a corporate pile of junk. Once you get to a certain size if you don’t rake in the cash you shut down. So hopefully peer to peer saves the day.