Sounds like a useful cool feature, would love to see it in Lemmy too.

The most active is probably the news community, [email protected] with 80 active users per week according to the sidebar. I think a good portion of them are users on external instances.

If you understand Danish, any of the communities on Feddit.dk should be interesting… But otherwise they probably aren’t :P

Just hijacking the top comment to say that it has been suggested, just not implemented yet https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

I’ll probably update within a week as well :)

Even reddit is still niche when it comes to social media and has always been. It’s become a little more mainstream the last few years, but for most people social media still equals Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and such.

Very nice even :D

But maybe Rust isn’t that niche, but the Fediverse apps and projects are niche themselves.

Lemmy is niche even within the fediverse, where microblogging still dominates and the threadiverse style apps are smaller. It’s just not a very large space.

Thanks for all the work!

I haven’t had big problems honestly. Still have less than 100GB of storage, which is like 0 dollars on object storage.

I found it very easy to start with the ansible setup and later changed to self managed docker. I even moved servers once and it worked fine.

Overall I haven’t had any issues, but I’m also a software engineer so maybe I know more than others. There are some missing features for sure, but I don’t think it’s so bad so far at least.

Also the post complains about the amount of storage used by caching images but that was also fixed/improved in v0.19.4

You don’t need 0.19.4 to avoid large storage costs. You can adjust your nginx setup to set a limit on the size of images allowed. For example, Feddit.dk only allows images up to 5MB. Anything larger than that will be linked to rather than stored locally.

I think it is solvable. Your instance keeps track of the instances it is connected with. It could just do the search and find the post on your own instance if the domain is among the connected other instances.

EDIT: Right, it doesn’t fix the problem of stumbling upon a link to a fediverse instance somewhere else. Not sure how you could deal with that one

Join a server that fits your geographic location. That would lead to a better balance than what we have today.

It just puts a hashtag with the community’s name at the end of the post. Like if you post in this community, it would have #fediverse at the end of the post.

The convention in many Rust projects is usually that before 1.0, the patch version behaves like the minor version and the minor version behaves like a major version. So once there are breaking changes, they go to 0.20.0.

You can’t have decentralisation without the possibility of some amount of fracturing. I mean decentralization is essentially fractured by design. I think this won’t be such a big problem in the future as instances and communities mature more.

It’s a feature but not the best practice if the idea would be forums (and users) being free of domains

I don’t think the idea is for users to be free of domains. One of the key benefits of tying users to their instance is that you defederate from the users of an instance when you defederate from an instance. If users were not bound to instances, it would be hard to defederate from certain groups without manually defederating a million users. Users being tied to domains makes moderation via defederation much, much simpler.

The design approach of Lemmy however, speaks “hegemony” all over. It says a lot about the mindset of its creators.

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ActivityPub, AFAIK only defines a protocol for communicating datasets between instances, not the structures in which federation should be done.

I’m not an expert on ActivityPub but I think you’re wrong about this being Lemmy’s design decision. I think ActivityPub is designed in this way and it is intentional. I mean, all other ActivityPub apps do the same thing (e.g. Mastodon users are also tied to their instance).

forums being bound to domain names instead of them having Universal IDs thus being agnostic of which node they are actually hosted on.

Just want to point out that domain names are also perfectly capable of being agnostic about nodes - i.e. you can host multiple websites on a single computer or distribute the hosting of a website across many computers. I’m not really sure what you’re saying here but I don’t know if it’s important.

It’d be neat if the community itself could vote to migrate to a new instance

You kind of already can do this. It’s just that instead of voting directly, people choose individually where to go instead. That is also kind of a “vote” - you vote by choosing a community and so whichever gets most votes becomes the new major community of that topic.

There is no need for a systematic solution, it is already in place. The admins/mods of lemmy.ml are acting in questionable ways and people are pointing this out and some are even trying to rally to defederate and trying to get people to move off the instance and all that. This is the systematic solution. The system is working as intended.

Effective moderation to protect vulnerable people needs more centralization.

No it doesn’t. Centralization would make it so that if there are bad mods, you would have nowhere to go instead. That’s how reddit is - if you don’t like the mods in a subreddit, tough luck.

Decentralisation helps by providing alternatives if the existing mods/admins go bad.

Rule 1 probably refers to lemmy.ml site-wide rule 1, not the community rules.