$3.33/month? I too would like to know who your VPS provider is.

Their tools kits are also super solid.

I know it’s probably not the target audience for this, but the idea of safely sharing secrets by pasting them into unknown websites is… terrifying to say the least.

Even better is probably the Github issue tracker

You almost certainly want to outsource email to something like SendGrid anyway. Hosting your own email server is harder than it’s worth these days.

Yep. Twitter was never my jam so Mastodon doesn’t appeal to me at all. I have been aware of PeerTube for quite a while but the content just isn’t there. I’ve been aware of Lemmy for a month or two and finally signed up a week ago. It definitely feels like it has the potential to be a viable reddit alternative. I’m looking forward to it.

Post it here. Presumably it’s lemmy.villa-straylight.social?

:D That’s sort of what this post is. I figured most people interested in lemmy would probably be able to figure it out, but yes you got it.

Fake your user numbers

I kind of consider that too. You do actually have to do some basic stuff to show up on the list in addition to the user requirement, so I don’t actually think it is about filtering out private instances, but maybe you’re right. I can’t actually figure out what constitutes an active monthly user though. I did make a (legitimate non-spam) comment on a post in another instance from my alt account and that doesn’t seem to be enough.

Well, I just made a post over there so we’ll see. I don’t have any emotional or other attachment to my reddit account anyway, so if they ban me I won’t be sad about it.

Yeah, I think it will change eventually, but there are some issues that make it hard to fix right away. Lemmy is basically beta software written by two guys that has been thrust into the spotlight by current events. There are going to be some growing pains, but I have hope that things will improve with time.

Google. Sue me, I really only care about results when it comes to search. It’s mostly just Google and Bing actually providing results and Google’s are better.

It can take a very long time sometimes for the community to show up. It is still searching in the background even though it says “No results”.

Comments from before the first user subscribes simply do not sync. An instance only gets comments made after at least one user subscribes to a community.

It doesn’t take a while for comments to sync. Comments from before the first user subscribes simply do not sync.

I’m a long time (mostly lurker) user on Tildes and I’m wondering this too. I just did a quick search over there and I don’t see any mention of it, so it doesn’t seem like the exodus was publicly advertised at first glance.