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I tried to come up with a good “Bender’s blackjack and hookers” type TLD name for an instance but couldn’t come up with anything clever


In addition to deleting history, could you get direct access to the account and watch better/different content to hopefully get that stuff more recommended too?


I understand why you want that, and I’m glad that decentralization/defederation allow you to keep that.

I have to ask though, why do you want to keep other people from getting that algorithmic, corporate content if they want it? Especially since this will allow them to do it without giving up so much personal info via apps. (While also allowing us to interact/evangelize the FOSS way > corporate systems)




I think a lot of people feel similarly, we’re just exhausted from all the pearl clutching in the fediverse.

I think it’s cool they’re federating. I’m excited to see some of that mainstream content without giving up so much of my personal info/data.

I’m also excited that there will be defederated places to go to if I don’t want to see/interact with the Meta crowd.


But why do they want to consume the fediverse?

The fedidb.org site says the fediverse has ~10m MAUs (a lot of which are probably already on Meta)

Threads got like 10m users on day 1.

It would be such a small increase in users/content for them to consume and most of the people here block ads anyway, so I feel like we’re their worst demographic.


How I self hosted wefwef on macOS with Docker
I posted this as a comment in the wefwef community but thought it might also be relevant here. If anyone is interested in self hosting wefwef this is how I did it on macOS: Start by installing [Docker desktop](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/) Open Terminal and type in: `docker pull ghcr.io/aeharding/wefwef:latest` Then, you need to use a Docker run command like below to get things started. In this example, I put my local IP in as "192.168.1.2" but you'll need to adjust that value to whatever your machine's IP is. `docker run --rm -d -p 192.168.1.2:5314:5314 -e "CUSTOM_LEMMY_SERVERS=lemmy.world,sh.itjust.works,lemmy.ml" ghcr.io/aeharding/wefwef:latest` At that point, I went to my iPhone, opened Safari and went to 192.168.1.2:5314 and boom, there's wefwef. Install this as PWA and name it (local) or something to differentiate it from the normal wefwef and you're good to go. Disclaimer: I’m brand new to all of this so I’m sure this isn’t the best way. But it got me started, so I wanted to share.
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