Les Orchard

I mean, you can always go start your own instance with blackjack and hookers - but then oh no you are the admin/mod in control then!

Yeah, it would be nice if Mastodon eventually handled rendering group threads a little better and meet something like Lemmy part way. I can imagine that different kinds of services using activitypub will end up looking strange through each others’ lenses, but there could be some interesting crossovers

(Also I kinda forgot that my post from a mastodon instance would show up like a top-level post over here 😅)

I’ve never used Jerboa, but yeah you probably need permission from the site owner to create a community. There’s a “Create Community” link in the header of my instance, looks like this:

👋 Hello from yet another server!

Joke’s on me, I can’t read!

I’d say if you want a community, create it. Better yet, start your own instance and do it there. I doubt there’s ever going to be any orderly migration. If you want it, make it happen. That’s how the reddit mods did it to begin with

Same same! Oof, I just realized my reddit account is 17 years old and barely any posts

I’ve been playing with my own single-user instance here using Docker. Mostly I just followed the Lemmy docs. It’s been nice & responsive and takes barely any resources, so far. I think this system can really benefit from a lot of small instances to spread the load.

I didn’t say anything was in a great state. I just said this software is like a party, no one’s here to serve you. You aren’t going to be catered-to because your eyeballs are worth selling. So if you want it to happen, help out. That’s how it works.

Bud, this is like going to someone’s house for a party and complaining that they don’t have your favorite beer. How about you go for a beer run?

What’s even weirder is that from over here, on my instance, that link takes me to https://kbin.social/m/!lemmy@lemmy.ml on your instance. So, something is funky

I miss the dial-up BBSes and federated message echoes like FidoNet. This kind of stuff feels a bit like the good ol’ days! (I’m old)

I’ve not quite been running mine for a day, so far. So, I’m not a great authority. But, so far, all the docker containers together are taking less than 500MB RAM and barely any CPU. And this is on a repurposed old gaming PC in my basement that’s also hosting Mastodon, Calckey, and a bunch of other ill-advised crap. I’ve been using tailscale and a super cheap linux cloud host with some reverse proxies to expose the services to the internet

Eh, your comment was pretty clear as-is. Hope I helped, though. 😅 This fediverse stuff is sometimes tangly to explain & understand

Communities are per server, as I understand it. Two servers might host communities that have the same name, but they are different distinct communities. There is no global namespace.

Imagine two servers, each focused on a different city: !news@chicago.il.us.gov and !news@losangeles.ca.us.gov would be different, despite having the same name

Well, it got me to try installing an instance of my own. We’ll see if I manage to keep it running 😂

Depending on exactly what you have in mind as a cross-post feature, there is this button on posts to cross-post: (also I see other folks have answered this, but seems like the replies didn’t arrive over here on my derpy instance)