I was looking at self hosting for my normal browsing stuff, with all the porn and questionable stuff defederated or blocked (and keep this one exactly where it is on dbzer0) but I mostly just browse all, and I’ve heard that’s the same feed as subscribed on tiny instances.

Any insight on that?

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have NSFW unchecked on my instance, so no porn is ingested/federated. Also because its just me, i have to seek out communities to federate with via search.

I did this via https://lemmyverse.net/communities and changed the linked names to my domain and just ran searchs to start the federation for the specific communities i found interesting.

It does mean things like "Local" is useless and subscribed and all are the same filters since its only stuff i subscribed to.

Occasionally I will browse one of alts on a different instance and check all, or local there and see if theres anything interesting. I have also re-run through the link above here and there to find new communities to join. Those are probably the biggest "pain points" in that it takes more effort to find new communities. But once you start the feed its fine.

I also use different default filters on my alt's in different instances (ie: ALL:HOT on lemmy.world) or whatnot if im feeling like finding new stuff. But honestly the lemmyverse stuff gets like 99% of the content here, and theres been a dip in participation, so some communities are idling (which just means I dont see anything)

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Cool thanks for the breakdown. I appreciate your time!