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tezoatlipoca

@ tezoatlipoca @lemmy.ca

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  • User accounts if a Lemmy Server goes Away.

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  • Unknown - Lemmy is a bit less "mature" than some of the other Fediverse platforms like Mastodon where you can at least export your data. All we have is "delete my account" for example.

    If the instance goes away, that's a good question. Certainly federated instances stop receiving anything from it. Will instances that have users who have subscribed to its communities still see cached posts etc? Probably. Unless there's a "Im going away, purge my stuff from you" msg in the AP that I dunno of (haven't finished reading it), a subscribing instance might just think "well, its unavailable at the moment Ill try later."

  • Locked

    ELI5 how do the posts we make on lemmy.ca show up for the rest of the world or do we need to be posting on lemmy.world for that to happen?

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    ELI5 how do the posts we make on lemmy.ca show up for the rest of the world or do we need to be posting on lemmy.world for that to happen?

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  • Meta post but it answers a relevant question to the sub, and in the interest of encouraging Lemmy growth and discovery, Ill allow it.

    @doctorplasmatron@lemmy.ca, can you edit your post title with a [META], and Ill pin it.

  • Lemmyverse Community Listing - 2023-06-10

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  • I'm sure it is. I spent my Sunday working on a script to scrape the community directories directly from an instance's community listing but got bogged down in HTML parsing regex hell. If I don't make progress by Saturday Ill manually compile another list. Best I can do atm.

  • Removed

    Cat5 "spliter" - There’s NO WAY this works

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  • Bonkers.

    srsly, a 5 port Gbe switch here is $17+tax.

  • Cities Skylines community?

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  • Other Community discovery Communities

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  • very excellent, Ill fix tonite.

  • Other Community discovery Communities

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  • Other Community discovery Communities

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  • xkcd 2275

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  • I'm kinda dissapointed in Randall on this one. The science behind this is actually pretty simple.

    As weird and magical as it seems. :)

  • Can I join Mastadon with my Lemmy Account?

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  • Having said this, when you follow a community from mastodon, you get posts and replies all in a big jumble (readability of said jumble is up to your Masto client's implementation), and posts/comments appear as boosts from the @community user.

  • Can I join Mastadon with my Lemmy Account?

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  • The other way around. You can subscribe to/follow Lemmy/Kbin communities from mastadon accounts. e.g. from mastodon you can follow @lemmyworld@lemmy.world like a regular user.

    The killer app will be the ability to follow hashtags like communities from Lemmy/Kbin. Its early days.

  • Looks like reddit went down.

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  • same here:

  • Reddit already looks different for me

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  • Yeah, I'm only seeing plumbing and homeimprovement subs. :)

    And a lot of people posting "hey, what happened to

    <sub>

    ?". Like... have you been living on the sun the past two weeks?

  • Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy

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  • You're missing the precursors:

    Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot... :)

    The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.

  • How are we going to pay for all this?

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  • Dunno. Hey @smorks@smorks@lemmy.ca , what is lemmy.ca's host provider/plan (unless its top secret Canadian Moose Power Secrets)?

  • asklemmy FAQ

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  • [meta]

    • where do I go with questions?
    • is there a community search engine? Y: https://browse.feddit.de/
    • is there a community listing? Y: each instance has one of course, "Communities" at the top, but !lemmy411@lemmy.ca is trying to compile one and has it stickied.
    • is there a list of instances?
    • how do I find my instances admin?
    • how do I find a communities moderators?

  • asklemmy FAQ

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    • why can my instance sometimes not find a community that I know exists (if you look at its home instance)?
    • [federation] how can I follow a Lemmy community from

      <other fediverse platform>

      and what will that look like? can I respond from

      <other>

      , what does THAT look like on Lemmy and vice versa?
    • [federation] can I search/follow users/hashtags in other fediverse platforms on Lemmy?

  • How are we going to pay for all this?

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  • As everyone else has already said that's a very good question, one that doesn't necessarily have an answer, but Im not too concerned.

    I'd point out (rather excitedly) that this really isn't unlike how the Internet used to be up until the late 00s or very early 2010s and the rise of insta, FB, birdsite, digg and reddit. EVERYone had to shoulder hosting costs (unless you were on Geocities,Myspace then it was ads)

    Yes, we've had bulletin boards and discussion forums since perl and CGI were a thing; each was self hosted at the hoster's expense. Newsgroup and IRC servers too - THOSE all acted like "federated" instances - common newsgroups and chat channels would be synchronized and replicated from server to server EXACTLY how federated Lemmy/Kbin/etc. instances do it now.

    And the infrastructure costs were a struggle then and they will be now. Back then to have a capable CGI forum host, or to colocate your server in someone's data center it cost a lot - like decent hosting/co-loc plans started at $50/month and went up from there. Most hosting plans had steep bandwidth caps, think like 5GB included and +$5 per GB - if you hosted a popular site 40-50GB of traffic wasn't abnormal. If you ran a newsgroup server you frequently had to futz with how long newsgroup msgs were retained to save disk space; like 48 hrs or less (then the data would be purged).

    What you can get for $50/month THESE days is quite a lot more capable, and you can run a low retention instance for a lot less. Bandwidth and disk space are ludicrously cheap (at least compared to 10-15+ yrs ago). If your instance is low user, low community, and reasonable data retention/cloning, you could run Lemmy or a Mastodon or Calkey server on an old computer you have kicking around and host it from your home internet connection with a dynamic DNS mapping.

    Obviously the big instances with gobs of users will struggle with how they pay for the server infrastructure - some will use crowdfunding, patrons, donations etc. Others will run ads, or subscriptions.

    My home instance lemmy.ca is at 1400 users (as of right now) and is on a $25-30/month hosting plan and so far the site is doing just fine (or seems to be). I'd guess that a massive instance like lemmy.ml might be north of $1-200. But, if you think about it, all you need are 20 ppl to donate $10/month. I donate yearly to Wikipedia. As they discuss in this thread here https://lemmy.ca/post/599590 Mastodon gets $28k Euros a month in donations and pays for two? full time developers, so its not like there aren't people donating to open source projects... and so far Fediverse servers are doing fine.

  • what are some good communities NOT on beehaw.org or lemmy.ml?

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