I run my own instance, the benefit is privacy and reliability. Everything is controlled on your own server. You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage. Been a problem with Lemmy.ml recently.
Lemmy instances seem to have trouble seeing content from kbin instances for some reason.
Yes. Instances can be hosted by anyone and the devs don’t have access to data on instances they don’t run.
Lemmy is FOSS so I don’t really think the political views of the developers have much impact.
The political views of the main devs are controversial but it doesn’t really matter since Lemmy is free and open source. No one owns or runs it. Only lemmy.ml specifically is run by the devs.
The whole point of Lemmy is that anyone can start an independent instance. Yes someone might start a the_donald instance and there is no central authority to shut them down. However instances such as, for example, lemmy.ml or beehaw.org can choose to defederate with the problematic instance so you will never see content from them. That’s why it’s important to choose an instance that will align with your values. You are basically choosing who is going to moderate the content you see. Just make sure you belong to an instance that values what you want.
I still think that it would be NH starting the war by declaring independence, but that might be up for debate if it violates the NAP. Either way the FSP doesn’t advocate for secession, it’s about taking over the state by electing people who align with libertarian values.
It wouldn’t be a perfect libertarian society but it would still be a stronghold for libertarian ideas and values within the US. There is no way to gain independence from the union without violating the NAP. Secession would always result in war.
I don’t think the end goal of the FSP is independence, could be wrong but my understanding was that it’s to create a libertarian state. Independence from the federal government seems unlikely.
Unfortunately it’s inactive but there is [email protected]
I have been able to get kbin magazines show up but they don’t show posts and I can’t subscribe. Seems like something lemmy needs to fix.
I think the fing-longer, if only he could have invented it.
See I would like to help out if I could and open up my instance since I’m sitting on a lot of unused hardware, but I’m just not really interested in moderating.
From what I understand it doesn’t use a lot of resources. For a small amount of users you probably don’t need much. The thing with storage is it just depends on how many users you have, and how many images/videos those users post. Since I’m pretty sure all uploads coming from your account will link back to your home instance afaik.
Yeah that’s what Lemmy started out as. The thing is with all the Reddit refugees flooding in it is diluting out the tankies. Besides, lemmygrad.ml is blocked by many instances. As for the values of the devs the great thing is that Lemmy is FOSS so if they go rouge someone will just make a fork of Lemmy.
I doubt they will ever match the original style of Futurama, given that it seems to be a lot of new writers, but I also think new writers will give the new seasons a different style that could end up going either way.
as far as I know, lemmy.ca is not using a whitelist. If you leave your allow list empty, you will automatically federate with all available instances. You can see federated and blocked instances at https://lemmy.ca/instances
Depends how many people you are hosting for. But what you describe seems overkill, I think Lemmy.ml just upgraded to a 6 core cpu and 32gb of ram and they have 30k+ members.