The Bard in Green

Better name than X.

This is awesome and there is gonna be so much fraud! All the fraud.

It depends. I run an instance with a whole two users and it costs me about $25 a month.

But if I let 200 users join, I would need beefier hardware and a higher bandwidth limit.

However running an instance like Beehaw is probably on the order of hundreds, not thousands of dollars a month.

Possible? Yes. But the web server configurations might be hard to figure out for someone who’s unfamiliar.

I run my own Lemmy instance that’s just me and a few close friends. I federate with who I want so I can follow the communities I want and it always works fine. Big instances defederate from each other, but I’m federated with both and so (so far) totally unaffected. I never have to make new accounts.

I DO pay about $25 a month in hosting fees, plus do the server maintenance work for these privileges. It’s a price I am HAPPY to pay.

I didn’t really use Twitter and I don’t use Mastodon (I get SO frustrated by character limits and don’t really want to spend my time on shallow conversation in metered soundbytes), so that part doesn’t really impact me either.

You can consume content from their users…

That’s exactly how Embrace Extend Extinguish works.

My standard response is “capitalism breeds escalation, which can sometimes cause innovation, but always breaks down in absurdity.”

“Particularly underrepresented groups include Mormons and those over 65…”

What a disaster! I hope someone gets on that ASAP! /s

How do I find kbin communities and how do I add them to my Lemmy instance?

Is there a tutorial anywhere?

I deleted RiF in the line for the bagel shop this morning. I feel exactly the same way.

I’ve had some of those. I’ve been responding with a link to Louis Rossman’s video and “Please consider limiting your own reddit use.”

Logging in is a major pain in the ass. It took me like 12 minutes to figure it out and if I got logged out, I’m not sure I remember how it worked.

Terrible UX. But better than nothing.

The mod team has a strong “keep the trains running” mentality.