Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.
Lemmy -> Kbin federation wasn’t (isn’t?) working that great, and considering 90% of content on KBin’s front page is lemmy content anyway…
Also there’s like two dozen apps for Lemmy now including several in the app stores
Plus stuff like https://old.thelemmy.club
The proper way to link is [email protected]
Welcome!
Keep in mind your instance will cache thumbnails of remote content… including possibly illegal content for your area.
For example there’s (far too) many instances that host or are themed around “lolicon” - which is cartoon child pornography. That’s illegal in some jurisdictions.
Also remember federation is a two way street. The people you’re going to attract with this concept are largely the same groups many instances are trying to keep out. If you get even a little popularity I would expect many mainstream instances to defederate you. Then you’re basically back where you started - what’s the point?
You can already do that without a reverse proxy.
A reverse proxy allows you to have multiple services running on 0.0.0.0:XXXA
For example you might have two websites at a server on 192.168.0.123
Your server will be setup to show those websites at two different ports, say “192.168.0.123:123” and “192.168.0.123:321” - with foo.com on 123 and example.net at 321
Your reverse proxy will listen to requests on port 80 (where websites are usually served) and look at each request. If it’s a request for the website at foo.com, it’ll send it to port 123. If it’s a request for example.net it will send it to port 321
But the client who is requesting the sites will only see port 80, at the same IP address for both sites.
@[email protected] Okay SHOULD work this time.
It’s a mastodon user, I don’t know if the linking is working. Should still ping them, maybe
Test - @[email protected]
Edit: Okay just got a ping one hour late on my Mastodon account so it does work, slowly?
@[email protected] - great art!
Yeah but nobody wants to split discussions.
These multi-communities. How would they work? They’d have to be curated by the user - which is a dead end since 99% won’t bother. Or else curated by someone else which leads to politicking about who’s listed and who’s not.
And what happens when you go to post? You have to pick one? And worry about who will see it and who won’t? Again, most users would find this burdensome.
Or it could just be like a hashtag and go out into one big conglomerate community. Who hosts that? How is it propagated? How does moderation work?
I think communities curated by a number of people passionate about each subject is just the best way for forums of this nature to work, realistically.
If a community gets too bad, they can and will be fractured and eventually one dies.
Ideal? No. Just what works best.
Multi-communities is a feature we need though. I just don’t think they’re a solution.
Those two sentences seem completely unrelated