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Smaller lemmy instances runs great on a raspberry pi 3 I've heard.

Different experiences I suppose. Used Contabo to host an ansible setup of Lemmy, never had a single outage for 6 months.

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Interesting, I'll check it out once it's back up.

If it's automatically connect to "friends-of-friends" instances and subscribe to all communities, that's a great idea! It would basically crawl the known network as long as there was a single link between instances. It would particularly be a boon to smaller instances that would be much easier to connect to.

If it's a regular instance ran as a community server with the aim of manually subscribing to everything as an emergency solution to this problem then eh... I literally did that a year ago with like 20 instances. I think that's not feasible, or even worse - exclusionary without intending. If it's all manual and everybody goes there because we think it's all-encompassing... If one is not on the list they don't exist to the world.

Yes, the !gaming-communities already federated to your home server.

There is most likely a lot of !gaming-communities you're not seeing.

Make a dummy account at a different instance, create a new community, search for it on your home server and see if it shows up or if you have to search for the community with an URL and pull it to your instance.

I know what you mean, and from that point of view I agree. I have different values and so I use different measurements; A connection to a small instance is equally valuable as a connection to a big instance. It's not about the amount of content but building a new paradigm of social media.

Well, we will end up with 160+ !gaming communities and no way of finding them other than word of mouth or actively checking every single instance and subscribe to !gaming - If they even have one.

It's been a big issue for the two years I've been on Lemmy and I don't believe the most used argument, "It will sort it self out, the community will balance it out".

I'm not too bothered, I have mitigating procedures. I would be very interested in having this discussion again in a year, I feel this is one of the matters that only time will tell if one or none of us is right.

The link also refers to BB: The number of instances that this instances is completely Blocked By. If this number is high, then users on this instance will be limited in what they can see on the lemmyverse. and lists how many other instances every server on that list are blocked by.

When it comes to the overselling of Lemmy and the interconnectivity, what can I say? I'd word it very differently.

Anyways, from a technical point of view I'd say it's close to what you describe - With third party instances working as an intermediary in some way. The issue is that there's no "sync" for communities and historically we end up with three different versions of i.e. !gaming, one on each instance. What Lemmy need is some sort of multi-reddit/funneling/taggins system so you can just post to a !gaming community - And then it'd be rejected by those who've blocked you. But everybody else would get it.

I don't see how one out of 160+ servers not connecting to sh.itjust.works would cut you out from the rest of the world.

I think of it more like being cut off from 1/160th of the fediverse. Unfortunate, but in the end a type of community I don't think I'll miss since our values don't align.

You're basically describing how the fediverse works I think.

How is it different than the current situation where both lemmy.world and beehaw.org are connect to lemmy.ml?

The only simple way I know about is checking the instance status of each individual server. Beyond that it's building apps to collect the info for you.

At the bottom of every page of a Lemmy instance you'll find the "Instances" link, which takes you to a list of who are connected and blocked.

I don't find this any more dramatic than sh.itjust.works blocking lemmygrad.ml lol

Well, how about this:

You're dealing with people that left reddit because the moderation wasn't strong enough. By default, "regular stuff" isn't filtered enough for them. So when you people come here with your regular stuff and they don't have the manpower to filter through it, they decided to shut the gates. For now.

To be honest, I'm glad we're on a platform where the default is "I don't want to hear that so I'll ignore you" instead of "I don't want to hear that so I'll try to silence you".