Ah, that makes sense.

fmhy lost their domain, but not everyone has lost theirs yet.

I think a lot of the secondhand places have problems in both directions. On one hand, it’s as you say. On the other hand, I’ve seen places that charge more than new prices for some things. One secondhand store I visited was in the same parking lot as a walmart. I looked at the t-shirts they had for sale (not fancy ones or anything) and they cost more than the brand new ones at the walmart.

I’m surprised there doesn’t seem to be any way to display a video at least from another source. It’s common on the mastodon side.

As with many things, nextcloud has a good app for it. Nextcloud mail is nice.

Keeping in mind that an instance is the specific server you’re on, and a community is equivalent to a subreddit:

If you’re on a small instance, then you’ll be able to see all the posts from any community you join as if you’re on the bigger instance. The local “All” will show all the posts from any community anyone has subscribed to on your instance.

On my instance, I’ve got posts from communities on many different instances.

That’s childish and petty.

You know that Facebook uses javascript? Do we stop using javascript? How about html? Do we shut that down? How about http? Do we shut that down? How about tcp/ip? How about the ascii character set?

The internet is based on Open standards. The idea that we would create a new standard just because someone we don’t like is using that standard is a non-starter.

The idea that we would then kick out the people who created the standard to begin with, who founded this ecosystem because they made a decision that we disagree with, you’re not looking for the internet, you’re looking for high school. Everyone can form their clique.

I think it’s a net positive. Plus, others may want to join your instance if they’re happy with your vibe.

No. Many images are stored locally, using a built-in service called pict-rs. Anytime that you directly attach an image to a post without linking to an external service like imgur, it’s uploaded to the local server, and then hosted by that service anywhere it’s displayed.

Decentralize.

With federation, there is no reason why you need to be crowding onto the most popular instance. If you find a much smaller instance and then just federate the communities that you want to it, then that’s going to spread out the load of you as a user and everyone else as a user.

Besides being better for the individual instance operators who don’t need to carry the load of the entire fediverse, decentralizing is better for the health of the fediverse. Imagine if two or three of the biggest instances went down today, how many people would be completely incapable of using Lemmy anymore?

This isn’t big tech. Somebody is paying for this, and sometimes those people just decide that they don’t want to pay for it anymore. Big instances do go down. So that being the case, decentralize. And that way even if a certain server is overloaded, you will be fine. And even if a certain server decides to go down, you will be fine. And you’ll be doing what’s right for the rest of the fediverse.

TeamViewer is really nice when you’re on the road a lot. That way if you need to hop in and change something, you can do it from pretty much anywhere.

I can’t say with certainty, but I’m pretty sure that it’ll just find a way to gracefully degrade. The fact is that Mastodon is literally the elephant in the room, if you make your thing incompatible with it, you screwed up.

I use rebased which is another non mastodon back-end that supports many of the same features. I think that generally speaking you’re not going to have to worry. Yes, your emotes won’t show up on their post for them because Mastodon doesn’t actually support that, but it’ll show up as a like. If you use quote reposts then it’ll just show up as a link to the original comment.

I’ve been using invidious. There’s an automatic install script that’s perfect, except I’m using mint instead of straight ubuntu so I have to tweak the script a bit to use the ubuntu path.

https://github.com/tmiland/invidious-installer

Extended color basic on the COCO was amazing, and so when I moved to a Commodore 64 I was like “What the hell is this? Where’s all the graphics commands?”

Then the grizzled old curmudgeon bellied up to the bar and said “ONE WORD. BASIC.”

And everyone else in the room pointed and laughed. But I still like it. shut up.

I think there’s already apps for that.

I’m not a huge fan of PC fans if I can help it, since I know they’re one of the points of failure (and they’re also loud)

I like the idea of using old smart phones too, I figure if you used something like a nexus 5x maybe you could pull it off with a powered USB-C hub?

Look at Mr. Moneybags over here running Matrix Synapse on his Cray supercomputer! ;P

• Lemmy
• Searx
• Matrix
• Xmpp
• Soapbox
• Lotide
• Peertube
• Nextcloud
• Nostr
• Wordpress
• Plex (sorta borderline of this counts)
• Invidious
• Pfsense

Running on a total of 5 fanless commercial grade sign PCs. That’s why the motto of my websites is “this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign”

1x core 2 duo running Lemmy

2x atom d2550s running xmpp, matrix, lotide, searx, nostr, and invidious

2x core i5 4000 series running everything else

I try to run bare metal so I can stick my fingers into things.