spread out and no problem
From a user interaction POV, just have a couple of accounts. I started out on a small server, got a .world and kbin account, then got a beehaw account. If a server is down, I just switch instances.
From a community standpoint, it's terrible because the instance hosts the only live version of the communities. IMHO communities shouldn't be instance specific. Every (federated) instance should have a two-way aggregation of identically named communities. That has some (minor) drawbacks, but is much better for new users to understand and is much more resilient to individual instance failures and outages. (/rant.off)
Yeah, after what happened to VLemmy I decided to start my own instance, that way as long as I maintain it I know for a fact that it won't just go down.
I keep seeing Vlemmy mentioned but I guess I missed the drama. Did the server admin unexpectedly shut the server down?
Basically. There was no announcement and no one's really sure what happened, the server kinda just died one day and the admin never said anything about it.
Would be nice to have some form of account portability that would work after a server vanishes. Like, way to register a pubkey on a server and then register a signed message at another server that this is your new account.
That would be very nice, though how it would be implemented would be difficult. One way it could potentially be done is the new server has to request control from the old one, that would be fairly secure but would introduce the problem of "What if the old one no longer exists?" It could be that there's a key that you send with your activity to verify it's you which can be moved to a new instance, but then you run into the issue of how to stop a malicious instance admin from getting your info. You could have a centralized authentication service, though many dislike that because it goes against federation to some extent. I know on Mastadon you can transition your followers, I don't know how it works but it's possible they figured out a good solution.
I transitioned between Mastodon servers. I needed access to both accounts to transition to the new account.
Was a budding smaller instance and then suddenly without warning it disappeared. I'm not sure if we know what happened, but it's actually one of the reasons why I want to stay on the bigger instances. Smaller ones have the risk of just poofing away one day...whereas larger ones may have occasional downtime and issues, your account is less likely to be unexpectedly lost to the void.
Alright so I'm pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff....I'm on the shit works instance, so does that mean I can see all the stuff on the others when I go too ALL or are the all different?
Short answer: yeah.
Long answer: Instances federate with each other by default. Sometimes an instance defederates from a particular other instance, usually for good reasons (and oftentimes you're not missing out on valuable stuff). Your instance hosts your account and stuff you post, but connects you to stuff hosted on other instances as well. If some instance goes down, noone can access stuff posted from that instance (like users, posts etc.)
Kbin go brrrr
Don't subscribe to lemmy.ml, the owner is a pro CCP. I unsubbed from all .ml communities.
Wait untill you find who made lemmy in the first place. But don't worry, there's this proud capitalist alternative called reddit.
It's irrelevant who made lemmy since it's an open source project. Both reddit and lemmy are products of capitalist systems.
It's also using ActivityPub protocol, which was developed by W3C, a non-profit organization with a CEO, a board of directors and sponsored by large corporations such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
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