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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Sure and there are pages helping you find communities, but there isn’t that one central instance that works as a frontend to all the decentralized content.

    I really wish to get a solution that builds of a free protocol, not on a single centrally managed instance of something that gives disproportional power to the instance hoster.

    I fucking love the idea of activity pub. Everything can talk to everything and offer different features for different requirements like forums, short messages or even video distribution.

    Internet, as much as anyone acts like it’s not, is in its childs steps. We should really make sure in 100 years it’s a communication tool for the masses, not another advertising platform.

    OSS and open protocols are so important for the future. Who cares if some people feel overwhelmed by adding an @instance to some handles?!

    Sorry for my bad English btw. ;)


  • Give it time I would say. Nobody cares about not having a central mail index, because everyone is used to how email works.

    Now with Lemmy we are changing the central approach of reddit to a decentralized one like email. It’s not a big problem if you ask me, it’s only that people don’t like change. Still, I think it’s crucial that we stay with the decentralized approach instead of creating the same problems we had with reddit/facebook/twitter and the likes.

    We did it the wrong way nummerous times. This time, let’s be patient and please do it the right way for once.

    And don’t forget that the big corporations are already trying to undermine the new approach. Look at meta and threads for example.











  • TBH, you need additional backups anyway and you don’t need 100% uptime. You don’t need to pay much for it for internal redundancy (aside of storage) and server features.

    Buy the nuc, buy one or two 10GB HDD with usb/usb-c and an external case and your are good to go.

    But in the end, any PC will work. Get a cheapo PC, buy 1 SSD for the os and container and a big external disk for storage.

    I’m running a Ryzen 5 5600G with 32GB Ram, B450 Chipsets, 1TB SSD for internal and 2 4tb SSD for storage in a micro atx. Cost me around 1200€ bucks 2 years ago.

    You can even use an old laptop with a broken panel if you like.

    Another possibility is, to buy a cheap (old) server from some company renewing it’s support contracts (loud, space, power hungry).

    Or buy an fanless industrial pc. Anything is possible. You could even try to use arm.

    I’d recommend to optimize for power consumption, noise (depending where it is located in your home) and storage. Not ECC or redundancy. as long as you do regular backups to another system, which you should do in any case, there is no reason to pay double for something.

    First thing I bought after my system was running, was an additional nic, to be able to use the server as a firewall, not an UPS or another hot standby PSU