is it possible to move an existing profile to a new server, like on Mastodon? or I need to create a new one and "start over"?
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
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Soo, stupid question maybe but how does federation work with your own instance?
I've set up a solo instance using ansible and subscribed to !lemmy@lemmy.ml. If I wanted my ALL page populated with posts from other lemmy.ml communities, would I have to subscribe to each individually? Or does my instance fetch lemmy.ml's Local eventually?
I've confirmed that federation is working using the method described in lemmy's docs and lemmy.ml (+ a few other instances) is listed under "Allowed instances" in my admin panel.
From what I can tell, it won't automatically pull in all communities from another instance - it'll only "know" about a community once someone has searched/subscribed to it, unless I'm missing something.
Also just as a heads up, explicitly specifying allowed instances puts the federating onto an allow-list only sort of mode I believe - if you want to allow federating with all instances you can do so by leaving that field blank (and putting in explicit entries into the blocked list will ignore requests/connections from those instances). Of course, if that's intentional then my apologies! 😅
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If anybody else is lost and wants a basic general-purpose home for their account, https://lemm.ee is on good hardware and open for signups.
Oooh so this is why it's lagging extremely, guess I'll go on the grad for a few days, or weeks
Sorry for contributing towards this by registering but I'm very appreciative of the work being done to facilitate this community. I hope to see Lemmy grow with the negative direction other platforms are taking.
Are there any published guidelines on the server requirements for an instance? I have my own instance running, seems to be working fine. But I'm reluctant to open it publically without an idea of if I'm setting myself up for failure or not.
Related, is there a way to entirely disable image uploads to my instance? I'm ok with it being a "reader" instance, but don't want to be hosting content directly.
The backend especially is not too demanding (thanks to using a compiled binary via Rust). The database demands probably scale, but postgres scaling is relatively well understood. I think right now the least scalable parts look like the frontend node and websocket stuff, but that can be improved. I'm not sure how I feel about Activity Pub protocol wise, it feels pretty chatty, so transit scalability might be something else to consider.
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I applied for behaw about 24 hours ago without response nor success logging in. Wondering if they have temporarily suspended applications?
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I know it probably won't be fun for you hosting, but this makes me happy! Hopefully Lemmy will grow a lot!
I'm going to setup a Lemmy node. I'm not on lemmy.ml anyway, but I want this platform to r0ck!
I'll lean it up ASAP!
Can I login to another instance with my lemmy.ml account? Or do I need multiple accounts?
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Ok. I have what might be a strange question. Can you host a server but disable community creation (even if only temporarily)? So, the server would essentially just be a platform from which others could access content published elsewhere in the Fediverse. I'm assuming the load would then be on the database behind my instance, correct?
I'm a Platform/Cloud/DevOps Engineer (the titles are always changing) working in software. I'm reasonably sure I could host an instance to help out without much difficulty. But I'm not sure I'm ready to jump into the moderator role, though I realize I'll need to deal with those who break some basic rules.
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I signed up on lemmy org uk originally (day or 2 ago) and now it seems to be gone. If I could have kept my account some how that would have been better, but here I am instead.
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It also avoids centralization. sopuli.xyz has a list of alternate communities to the ones on lemmy.ml.
It seems like a common issue among ActivityPub services that people flock to the most popular instance and this causes problems. Why can't load balancing happen transparently? It seems like the main thing that actually makes a difference between which instance users want to join is what the moderation will be like. Like I don't want to be forced to sign up for an instance with a high amount of censorship compared to the rest of instances.
So maybe user registration should start from a centralized site that can describe the trade-offs of joining the various instances, and users don't get to select their specific instance by default, but rather they select based on a loose moderation policy, and then load-balancing occurs on the backend.
So, might I recommend having a button on the top bar that shows us the instances we've subscribed to, and maybe a quick link to the list of available instances? People like easy navigation, having to do multiple bookmarks or navigate through finding a link to the list of servers is not easy navigation.
Would be really nice if on the instance page you could have some extra information admins could fill in like max capacity and such, think that people would be more inclined to choose other instances if they could see how close the instance is to the approximate member limit
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