This is why I never bother with any “easy install” scripts of any kind. Give me a list of Docker images, a list of environment variables / config files, and some form of reverse proxy configuration and I’ll figure out the rest. You don’t know how my server works better than I do.

So was 0.18.0. In fact I think the next few releases will all be like this.

(just cheekily testing to make sure federation didn’t break between updates)

Snikket (which is run by a Prosody dev) is aiming to be the “one app” of XMPP. Their Android version is, IIRC, rebranded Conversations. Not sure on iOS/macOS but I think they have something there as well. And of course their server software is Prosody with a few extra plugins configured by default. All FOSS

Oh yeah, I briefly tried Prosody/XMPP (before a domain scalper stole a previous domain of mine because of a loophole with the TLD i chose) and it worked really well.

It’s a shame Matrix seems to be the current hot new thing when, with a bit of UX polish on all the apps, XMPP would work just as well if not even better.

If you’re thinking of hosting Matrix on that small of a server consider going with Conduit or Dendrite. They’re not as feature complete as Synapse but they’re substantially lighter.

No idea if Gotosocial supports relays or not, which is my choice of software so far. There seems to be some incompatiblilty between gup.pe and GTS (alpha software and all, expected issues obviously) so those are a no-go as well.

Following accounts are fine, but it’s really the creation part that causes issues. Unless you go full on reply guy, and I have at least some sliver of shame left in my body to not go full reply guy.

I’m still waiting for some Android Root/ROM dev to come up with an Xposed thing or whatever to just throw a “Lie” button on all the permission requests.

Rootful Podman & podman-compose. Waiting on the version of Podman that supports passt to hit Debian Bookworm or backports to attempt rootless. Deployed with Ansible except a few manual parts like creating the Postgres databases themselves.

No auto updates or notifications so far, as there seems to be a couple incompatibility issues left with Watchtower & Podman. Although since I switched CrowdSec to monitor journald instead of the Podman socket I don’t really have a reason to keep the daemon running, and I think that’s for the best.

Click the rainbow star “fediverse” icon to go to the original instance of the post or parent comment. This doesn’t really help if that instance also blocks any replies but it’s helpful when federation ends up struggling to keep up.

With how unreliable tallying votes over federation is, we’re kinda get vote fuzzing “for free” right now.

Right now the prevailing Reddit migration path seems to be:

• Do you want the cat pics and shitposts with the occasional discussion that may or may not get heated? if so, check out Lemmy
• Do you want to read and write paragraphs of insightful comments about stuff with absolutely none of the fluff? If so, check out Tildes

The middle ground is checking in on both IMO. Also I guess squabbles or whatever also exist but I have no idea how well they’re doing.

but on Reddit you have one “gaming” subreddit

I mean, you have r/gaming, r/games, r/pcgaming, whatever r/true or r/actual or r/real clones of those may have popped up and died over the years… One will eventually be “the” place, or at least all the smaller ones will all specialize on the kinds of content they want to see and go from there.

Also note that Lemmy does did not implement Authorized Fetch until two weeks ago, meaning certain instances won’t be able to contact Lemmy instances even if you do everything correctly.

Most of Beehaw’s blocks are “generic ActivityPub assholes”, which, before the Reddit migration, was really just the worst of the worst of Mastodon, Pleroma, Soapbox, and Miss/Calc/???Key instances, with the occasional PeerTube thrown in.

They likely just imported one of the common blocklists and moved on with their lives, which really should be “how to secure your community 101” but most Lemmy admins haven’t seem to have gotten the memo yet.

I’m patiently waiting for the day those assholes realize most of Lemmy is open ground for them to shit in, boy that’s gonna be a fun few days.

If this comment is federating then I started hosting my first service – Lemmy itself.