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Huh. Wouldn’t have bet on vlemmy to be the one to just evaporate.

Out of curiosity - hoe many have you run into that had disappeared?

Yes. There’s a Private Instance checkbox in the Settings.

Omlette du fromage, probably. Although nothing tastes good for eternity.

Testing user tag Tmpod

Myself

Honestly? Reddit’s fuck up. I’ll always self host stuff if it makes sense, and all of a sudden Lemmy started making sense!

Absolutely! There’s some feeling of ownership now that I can host an instance of my own - I want this platform to succeed, I want to give something back to the open source community, even if it’s only a small server.

This is from 4 years ago!

I think something very similar is done already. If I look a thing up on another instance - my instance saves it. If the origin goes away - I can still see it.

Not the kind of sharding you’re talking about, but the federated nature of stuff does prevent something popular from just dropping off the surface of earth.

Quick comments:

i cannot use the account i have on a mastond instance on Lemmy, and neither the opposite

I’ve seen people comment here using Mastodon accounts. Not sure how they had done it, but it’s definitely doable. Not sure about using a Lemmy account on Mastodon, but it really should be doable.

if i want to browse Kbin with my Lemmy account, i won’t be able to, but i can create a new account and find some content of Lemmy on it or browse privately.

That is a temporary issue caused by the main kbin instance deploying defensive measures against the onslaught of new users - they’ve hidden themselves behind Cloudflare CDN. Once they figure out the performance issues and expose themselves publicly the federation will come back.

The system of mentions is quite confusing as well and i don’t see these differentiation of istances a pro for the network, if an istance goes down the content on that istance goes down as well.

Can’t argue the mention bit, as I’m probably too old to care about having a server bit added to the username - that’s just normal to me. The instance going down is no different that a subreddit going private. It can happen on a whim of the mod/owner. And just like with a subreddit content being cached externally, other Lemmy nodes will keep cached copies of existing posts for some time. The only real issue here would be user accounts that would become inaccessible, but even that may be sorted by people more intelligent than me.

have one single domain holding all the istances

No. Just no. If you prefer having single points of failure - either stick to Reddit or spin up a private unfederated Lemmy instance.

I want to be able to subscribe to one single Fediverse account, and be able to use it in every different federated platforms.

I believe we’re very close to that. You can already access many federated things with a single account.

If i login in a federated platform, IPFS would perform a node lookup and find my account details on one of the federated servers, instead of having to specify which server i want the account info to be coming from.

This is the cost of owning your data yourself. Fully. I prefer hosting my own stuff.

I don’t know IPFS stuff all that well, can’t comment.

Of course with this option there HAS to be a central server with all the data on it in order to make them readily available and make the user experience acceptable.

No. Just no.

Not that I’m aware of, no. It might already be on a TODO list

I guess I could. Thanks for the idea!

Not on a trackpad I can’t :D

Not that I’m aware of, no. Would love it, though! Currently resorting to ctrl+lmb

Not at all. Probably because I was not a mod of any subreddit. I’ve commented every now and then, but that bit is the same here.

I and the few others that had signed up to my instance have not experienced any performance issues so far. Bugs - yes. Like not being able to log out (stuck here forever, now :D ). But not performance

There’s always the be the change you want to see, but also keep in mind that things just take time. This run is a fairly big one. It will take a week or so for the new people to settle and some more time to establish the communities. Reach out to your favourite subreddit mods and ask if they’d be interested.

I would also be happy to host such communities on my instance, as I’m sure others would as well, as this would not generate the insane traffic main communities would.

Hard to say - a fresh install of OS + lemmy had used up ~4.3G yesterday, today it’s at ~5.4G. A lot of this growth is me adding a bunch of communities to federate with. I suspect most of it is some sort of cached flow of data that will get discarded over time and some other bit is just the database. Time will tell what usage it’s going to settle on, but I expect it to be reasonable, unless people start uploading media onto my instance :D

Forgot to mention - it’s open registration, so feel free to jump on it if you feel like skipping the self hosting part and want to avoid the big instances struggling with things at the moment.

It was meh the first ~week that I’ve mostly been using it anonymously via Jerboa. There just wasn’t all that much stuff to read. But once I’ve spun up my own instance and federated with a few dozen communities - man, it’s looking amazing! It’s still so much better in a browser to manage everything, but simply lurking is now perfectly viable via the Android app.