Linux gives you freedom.

Freedom lets you break stuff.

If, like Windows or MacOSyou just use it as intended by official support, it should be fine. If you start just adding everything and anything from anyone you’re gonna break stuff.

Other stuff is made to be idiot proof, Linux is not.

Morons are everywhere, be prepared. Occasionally I’m one of them.

Beehaw’s fine, no need to promote one side of Lemmy whilst laying into another.

I appreciate the need for variety but personally value safe spaces for discussion over anons right to troll with porn.

The code base needs work to allow safe spaces to exist and integrate with anons trolling now that there are a few million accounts.

It seems much more likely beehaw defeded due to the accounts here lolzing about posting homophobic content everywhere, as the instance owner is apparently gay, & posting knobs all over the feminist spaces. I suspect your take that beehaw action’s are to generate income is complete fiction, it’s to limit the ability of fuckwits on the server as the current mod tools are shite.

Between Explaining Computers, Jeff Geerling & Network Chuck on Youtube you should be able to get a server up and running on an old machine. You can then install Lemmy via docker or whatever.

A home network server can be pretty safe & simple, exposing that server to the internet should take a little more thought and planning.

Digital Ocean or similar is likely the simplest way to try it.

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets

Create a $4pm Ubuntu droplet & install Lemmy.

Probably cheaper to run per hour than an old pc and install of the OS is instant and disposable. If you do something stupid or get hacked, you just delete and start fresh…no need to worry about l33t haxxors all in your home base.

Not watched but this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzCUEpFnDg

You’ve got it!

People just won’t lie about ill gotten gains, tax returns or funding on lemmy instances. The green bar will be truth.

I’m hoping Discord is passing phase I can largely ignore. I will deal with it if I need to but it seems like world of proprietary crapware.

I have no idea but am interested in answers.

I’ve only exposed ports briefly for testing and got scared.

I feel a little calmer using tailscale the past few months but still feels like putting a lot of faith in someone I don’t really know I can trust.

Reddit was maintained by unpaid mods. It it now being shat on by unpaid mods.

I appreciate the need for funding I just don’t see the ‘funds health bar’ being useful fediverse server feature.

Awesome & thank you, makes sense.

I’m freeloading from FMHY, kbin.social and mastondon.uk as I try to figure out how this works and been playing around with self hosting instances, this is interesting.

A small fee for a safe and reliable place seems reasonable, cheers for the post :)

In light of recent IBM/RH activity those keeping the old ways, and user choice, alive are more important than ever.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/YeOldeGentoo_2021_Edition

Alsa may be a bit awkward but the other stuff is just more chaos on top of it, it’s not an alternative.

I try wayland once a year or so, maybe one year I will manage more than a few hours or days.

lvm/luks/ext4 is still better than btrfs which still hasn’t gotten round to addressing encryption, big hopes for bcachefs.

Thanks, appreciate the insight. I did not consider that and am still trying to get grasp of things.

I mentioned Pat & Theo as it seems on the few occasions they do reach out to keep the servers running beyond current donations, people do reach out to help with running costs. People don’t jump ship and the community persists for decades.

If a linux distro is struggling to keep up, freeloading users will often jump ship too. Linux isn’t short on distros to choose from or small community distros that died.

I’m not sure what you provide…what is the advantage to using your service over just deploying a lemmy or mastodon instance on any cloud service?

Just the same way the funding bar works. As long as no one is lying, confused, lazy, mistaken or busy it’s bulletproof.

I’d prefer communities and instances focus on providing clear mission statements, support commitments, community guidelines and working on what is possible with what we have. I’d hope that much of the work being done on the Lemmy code over the coming year or so is cve’s, bugfixes, mod tools, scalability & further integration with other areas of the fediverse.

A financial health bar sounds like a lot of work to add and a lot of work for people running an instance to commit to keeping up to date for little gain, or possibly negative gain. Most businesses struggle to provide accounts every year or two and this would likely involve international market and crypto integration alongside converting donated or removeded hardware, hosting and maybe most importantly labour given freely. Real time financial reports for thousands of open source social instances seems wild. To make a personal instance appear green I’d need to show the running cost of ~3.72% of my server and then donate to my own instance and publish it, even then it might be red for half the month if I don’t get my direct debit date in sync.

A lot of money changing hands on Reddit was mods being bribed to promote content, we’d need a bar for that here too so we can see how corrupt the mods of each instance are. Maybe a light/dark bar showing declared and undeclared funding.

Prosperity is often linked to abrupt change.

In my experience of open source over the past decade or so often the most reliable projects over the longterm are those with a focus on code & community, not finance. If the finances go too far into the red they will ask the community for support. Pat’s Slackware or Theo’s OpenBSD seems like good examples, they are beyond dependable and the finance model seems to involve ignoring it until the lights are about to go off and then asking the community for help. Gentoo & Debian for the community approach.

A small instance with a dedicated admin and a solid community behind the admin that’s currently losing money may be more likely to be still growing and thriving in a few years than a huge instance at the moment with an admin focused on the short term financial possibilities of another mass Reddit migration next week.

On the plus side it’s not as if Red Hat are in charge of the all of the core system plumbing for all the major distros…oh, shit wait a minute.

Tolerance of own farts > tolerance of the farts of others

That seems to be what has just happened. Beehaw, one of the larger instances, has just defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I can see both side from fmhy.ml or kbin at the moment.

I’m wondering if it would be easier to observe all this from a personal server that federates with everyone instead of my account and feed being determined by the relations of tankies to queer safe spaces in real time

anything is possible, the fediverse is no exception.

I’m not really surprised. Reddit is massive now and a gold mine of content, they can likely afford losing a few million users and a few thousand subs as they move towards retirement planning. It seems like a reasonable business decision to me. They will lose a chuck of current user base trust and support, but may gain trust from users of Insta, Twitter, Facebook, Tik-Tok etc users if they spend millions on advertising and fixing the fucking video player instead of spending the money supporting 3rd party API access.

The Reddit stuff all makes sense to me and I don’t blame anyone, the only real problem is Reddit got too good and therefore had to snap. Would be nice to still be around to see the fediverse being taken over by the sith one day.

Thanks, I’ve never heard of ArcaOS, AROS or MorphOS before. Always nice to find new things.

I don’t daily drive them as they don’t really seems like daily drivers. I’d be surprised if even the devs manage that. Temple OS is really only useful if you want to align with the divine, Plan9 could be doable if all you do is code and appreciate acme but even then it’s a research OS that’s meant to be deployed on a network, everything is a file!, but seems to mainly target just running as a vm.

I tend to play around with linux and bsd, occasionally even hurd, as they seem to have better potential for getting basic ‘daily driver’ functionality even in obscure niches.

The Glaucus dev has an nice https://github.com/firasuke/awesome of projects that inspired them to create a beautiful little daily driver linux OS. I tested Glaucus a few years ago but my current systems are ancient and Glaucus is targeting new tech, which is nice.