I have a Kbin account just to try it, which I normally use, and I have a community there, but I can’t figure out how to change the photo? Thanks! 🙏

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31718711

Always wanted to selfhost your Fediverse instance but were always worried about system administration trauma?

Do you ever have to run around your flat, picking up all the leftover parentheses from yesterday's party with your hosting coop coworkers?

Then you are probably the right person, check out this post about fearless Bonfire hosting on a Guix System. You'll learn that taking care of a community is much more manageable when you let computer do the boring work for you.

Set up HTTPS, automatic backups, automatic nightly upgrades and join the awesome Bonfire community without a single worry on losing data from your instance.

You might've heard that search sucks on software X... maybe software Y... definitely on software Z. The default one kind of sucks on NodeBB too, admittedly.

But why? It's because search is really frickin' hard to get right, and expensive to get good at.

Remember that Google started as a search company, and they became king because they got really good at it, and it was their only product (at the time, anyway!)

The easiest type of search is "full text" search. It matches words exactly based on what you type in. For example if you search lemmy it would match posts that include the word lemmy but depending on how the content was indexed, might not match lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmyverse, etc.

From there you start adding complexity like supporting AND and OR. You support partial matches (lem returns posts containing lemmy and lemmings).

Add more logic to remove stop words and articles like a, the, etc.

Put in some sorting logic to rank stuff higher (what's your algo? Recency? Votes? etc.)

That's just the tip of the iceberg... this problem domain is so vast that entire companies have been built around just providing searching as a service (e.g. Algolia), and it isn't cheap!

I'm a fan of wafrn (wafrn.net), its a tumblr-like thing.

Found these funky looking stat graphs on fedidb, anyone knows what caused this?

This applies to any of the microblogging software. Akkoma, IceShrimp, etc. I go to any Lemmy instance, big or small, and the up/downvote data and replies are basically all the same. The same goes for Peertube, and most services that aren't Mastodon and the gang. Why is this? Is it because of older design? Unexpected issues cropping up with scale? It seems to be such a big struggle over there, but for everyone else, it's whatevs.

I would love to permanently reside on a smaller Mastodon instance or host my own, but I often find that many posts are unavailable and a lot of replies I want to reply to don't exist. It is an incredibly frustrating experience.

I want to join the Fediverse. I don’t have a computer or anything to make something like a Lemmy instance, and I found that NodeBB will easily allow you to make a forum quickly, but I have to pay to do so. Should I just pay when I can or is there a free way to make a federated instance on a software?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40087740

Happy ruleversary

"This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say."

the most similar one so far i can find would be piefed.

July 12th, 2025 @ 4am UTC

https://2025.canvas.fediverse.events/

✨ just as it was last year, the entire Fediverse is invited ✨

follow via microblog @canvas@fediverse.events

join the chat on matrix or on discord (bridged)

are you an app developer? check out the fediverse.events api 👀 (matrix room also linked there)

What’s Canvas?

canvas is a 48 hour event were anyone apart of the fediverse can contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time

I created a secondary Pixelfed account to test the share functionality, but none of the posts I've shared from my main account are showing up in the new account’s feed.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/41049427

Hi everyone, I just created a PeerTube account on https://makertube.net/ and wanted to subscribe to a channel on a different instance. I click subscribe and get the pop-up that I have subscribed, however when I reload the page it's gone again, and nothing shows up in my subscriptions. It does the same thing for different channels on different instances. What's going on?

An open source, self-hostable music platform will soon allow people on the Fediverse to buy music and support artists. Here's why it's a big deal.

Edit: Or use this link https://lemmyverse.link/piefed.social/post/891425
(thanks, @blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com )

Source: https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/wuqKuurLmzX4ooDuEjJddG?start=1h9m39s