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Thank you for both of those!

Nice work to all the contributors for this release. Feels great so far.

There was like 200 comments worth of discussion on this and it seems like it was implemented without much fanfare. What gives? This is one of the biggest gripes I had early on. I’m gonna shout this from the roof tops

I’ve always felt there are just a lot of features I’m not interested in, crammed into Calckey. I wonder if I can disable those as an admin.

Two thoughts:

1 - I think we need to live with the fact that digital permanence probably isn’t good for us, and it probably isn’t something we can count on. I think websites and communities come in cycles, so we should collectively plan for both the boom and the bust.

2 - (respected) instance admins in Mastodon have a covenant they sign that provides a bit of a backup against this scenario: more than one admin per server (or at least have another trusted individual who can step in if the admin becomes incapacitated); backups in case of data loss on a hosting provider; and I believe at least some kind of terms of service that says racism/bigotry etc will be dealt with actively. (Correct me if I’m wrong here). I think users need to look for instances on Lemmy where admins can provide a similar set of guarantees

Edit: another point - I don’t think it’s immoral if people set up bots that can clone submissions to a backup instance in case of disaster, too. But of course there probably wouldn’t be a way to take the discussions/comments

There is an ActivityPub plugin in the plug-in store that does all the work for you. I had some trouble getting it setup and federating at first but I may have been tinkering too much; I think if you just install that and the recommended Webfinger plugin you will be golden - let me know when you do and I can help you test

Yes. This is why I blog still. Any niche setup instructions I need to recall later, I make sure to write it down. As I said in another comment on another post, it’s great if that helps someone else out, but it’s mainly for me.

I also tied my Wordpress blog in with ActivityPub recently (last 6 months) so people can subscribe to it automatically from Mastodon, or other fedi clients, if they wish.

FYI there is a GitHub issue open to add a site map to Lemmy installs. I was going to try and take a stab at it but I don’t know enough Rust to be useful.

Very cool. Posting from it now. Don’t like how the reply form takes up the whole screen. But given it’s v0.01 I’ll take these things in stride

Great resource.

Yep. I blog infrequently but I’ve said a few times in my posts, I am writing this article because I need to remember the steps to do this weird niche thing in case something breaks in the future. If it happens to help someone else out, great.

Yup, been following them closely

Check the GitHub! It’s linked at the bottom of the web page (“Code”)

I said it in a few threads, but a “super community” feature which can combine multiple communities into one feed is going to be a killer feature. It’s one of the few things missing right now that I think will change the perception of Lemmy once implemented

Devs are actively developing stuff and are very responsive on GitHub. They indicated a new backend version is potentially only a few days away. Probably won’t be feature rich but should help with performance which is important as a lot of instance admins are discovering.

I use Bitwarden, thinking about deploying a local copy of Vaultwarden as a backup as well. I’d be in trouble if access to Bitwarden’s servers went down.

People should be using a password manager in 2023. No password reuse if you automatically generate new 20+ character passwords for each website or service you use.

I can help fill in some of the gaps. Mastodon.social is the flagship instance so you get a bunch of people signing up for it, and at times I think some of the reports overwhelm the moderation team. A few weeks ago there was a big issue with spam bots getting through. Some instance owners have a short fuse for this kind of stuff so they opted to defed from it.

Personally, I’m running a small instance so I did not block it. I follow a lot of accounts from there. The spam bots were annoying though.

I am not really certain ChatGPT’s analysis here is correct

I find kbin’s interface to be a bit cluttered. But I really like the ease of following microblog accounts. If I could just have a “microblog only” feed in kbin I think it would make me switch my dartboard.social domain from Akkoma to kbin.

We will see how it shakes out after a few updates.