Y’all should try it! I loved seeing it popping on other instances’ /instances page, and seeing it polling other communities. Also changing the background in my theme was lit.

Lemmy’s hosting documentation is a bit rough around the edges, especially the ARM situation (and its contemporary solution), so I had some extra tinkering to do. No shade at all yeah? I appreciate every bit of their work and I jotted down some points that I need to consolidate into a documentation PR soon.

Anyway, I feel like the extra @... on our usernames should be worn as a badge of honor you feel me? ;)

    • maor@lemmy.org.ilOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Frankly I’m not sure what it does haha. What are the “best communities”? Which communities? Also what does it actually do, subscribes all users on your instance to those “best communities”?

  • taaz@biglemmowski.winEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It is cool, but lately there has been a bit too much hassle with it - my instance (latest versions mind you) is federating like shit.

    There are often posts with wildly different upvote and comment counters, comments not loading at all even after days and so on.
    I tried looking into it, both in issues on GH and Matrix room but no-one has time:/

  • SnoW@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How useful it is to actually have a self-hosted lemmy instance if u are alone on it btw ?

  • smashboy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I think I have the tech know-how to do it, but what worries me is that users could post illegal content, which my instance could then pull in. Since it’s on my storage, I would be legally responsible for that. So I’d have to constantly check, probably. How do others do this?

  • Psiczar@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What are the storage implications of setting up your own instance? Are you syncing the contents of every sub or just the ones you and your friends subscribe to? I like the idea of doing it but will it be TB’s of content in a few months?

    • maor@lemmy.org.ilOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You nailed it, it only pulls posts from communities that someone on your instance subbed to. It doesn’t even pull retroactively; your instance only starts pulling posts created after the first subscriber on the instance subbed.

      I’m more concerned regarding media, because just like Mastodon, the pics themselves are copied from other instances onto yours. I hope it will be enough to just find -mtime -delete once in a while