99% of people here come from Lemmy, it’s my guess. I migrated when reddit closed down the API, at that time talking about lemmy didnt got you banned yet (like it’s now, so lemmy cannot be spoken of on Reddit). I did set up my personal instance to avoid any kind of censorship or defederation (=fediverse approach to censorship) and been happy ever since! I own my posts and comments, i can save and store any post or community i like even if that is deleted upstream, and nobody can delete my account ever again.

He was just trying to make you feel at home like on reddit :)

Fediverse is a network of interconnected social media like piefed lemny mastodon etc that all share the same protocol, ActivityPub, so that posts are shared between the platforms and comment as well more or less.

Each platform has a different scope like Twitter Facebook reddit etc, but they can all communicate.

There is no commercial backing to any, so no advertising budget or media push. But it’s also unkillable and will overtake the commercial socials, like Linux will overtake windows (not in my lifetime ofc. )

Well, welcome here I guess. The community is much smaller but very much more active, and while there are bots, indeed they are a small minority.

Try to be as much active as you can, Lemmy is thriving but do not expect the background noise of reddit, nor the porn. Neither the censorship, but there is some.

I would also avoid well known instances like .world or .ml and find an instance that do not federated with too many others…

I came from reddit myself… At the time of the great migration.

What did you actually migrate now and not then? Where you on reddit back then?

Running Lemmy it’s pretty easy. Setup some containers. Unless you plan to open registration but keep the instance only for yourself (like I do), there is really no more maintenance needed.

Probably you don’t even need a server in itself, a PC that stay turned on most of the day will work just fine, data exchange between federated instances will resume then your Lemmy is online

Maybe update the containers periodically and check that disk usage doesn’t grow too much, but that’s up to which and how many communities you subscribe to, since you are the only user of the instance.

I have been to both ends… It’s quite impressive to be honest.

It’s fun when things don’t match up…

I love that Iceland and Greenland are kind of… Inverted geographically…

I have no design, but will surely make a post with a few pictures down the road, thank you for the interest!

It’s an open box approach, kind of a structure of wood around a metal motherboard plate, with place for disks and cable management, will keep taking pictures along the way and definitely make a post in a few days!

I run a few bridged, with Continuwuity.

First of all, great choice. It works perfectly and it’s very light on resources. Totally different from Synapse, specially for few users (1 user in my case) instances.

The wa bridge works just fine, but I wouldn’t rely on in for critical messages. Actually in two years I never lost a message, but … Well … My wife would NOT like that I lose even one message from her in real time.

Here my experience https://wiki.gardiol.org/5-matrix-hosting (personal wiki, no ads, no monetization)

Building a new server, pinping up the specs to run more serious llm in parallel with all my services.

Waiting for the CPU (an amd Ryzen 9 5950X) that delayed in delivery, and building wooden crate/case to hold everything together with proper ventilation .

Thank you. I am pretty ok with Lemmy, so no need to switch I guess…

Good, hope for 1.0 then, tbh I just pull my containers periodically without even checking which news are there

I run my own Lemmy instance, would it make sense to migrate to piefed/this fork?

I run my own Lemmy instance, would it make sense to migrate to piefed/this fork?

As usual, what is it? I understand probably it’s a fediverse client, but mastodon? Lemmy? Piefed? Something else? A mix of them all?

A quality post should mention that imho

It was not free. You rented for a price, then returned the VHS. The longer you kept it, the more you paid.

My grandma recorded a few thousands of VHS, but she aimed at an historical collection so that was all from the television, dubbing existing VHS needed more equipment and was. Not that easy.

Love the front sticker

To demonstrate your idea is dumb there is nothing better than having to keep building workarounds and shits to make it work.

Wthayrt?

N, s, in t abtmc?

Thank you very much!

This was immensely informative and helpful at the very least to get a better understanding of the whole picture…

Great and quality post!