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Edit: A fix has been deployed, and federation should work now. Unfortunately, kbin.social is taking its sweet time federating with us, it is probably overloaded. Lemdro.id is already accessible from other kbin instances such as fedia.io (https://fedia.io/m/android@lemdro.id)
Hello! Admin here at lemdro.id. This is the result of several problems in the lemmy default reference nginx config. I am working on resolving this right now and should have it fixed within the next 30 minutes!
Once you've finished updating it, can you share the changes you made to your Nginx config? If the default references have issues with them, I'd like to make sure mine doesn't have the same problems.
sure! take a look at this issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/issues/106
It is likely yours is fixed if you deployed recently
Man, I'm really not feeling the community merge. Moving the 5th biggest lemmy.world community to one that's like 12x smaller in subscription size feels like an unnecessary hit to any momentum it had. Especially because asking people who moved places like Reddit to move again does not sound like a good idea (though obviously less effort than moving to another website).
I do hope I'm completely wrong though and hope this comm gains lots of traction. Moving to an instance dedicated to tech does sounds like a good idea (although I don't know the benefits yet). Also, if it had to happen, better now than later.
I feel this is the right move since /r/Android is promoting lemdro.id, this move also takes a big load off of lemmy.world.
To check real community size you need to go to the "community home" instance and check there. When you do it from your instance/app, you see number of subscribers fromy your insnce only.
Oh shoot you're right. Did not know that. From my community I see 1.6k, and from lemdro.id its 3.6k.
For me it is much simpler to notice. I see 83 users for the "id" community, what is a rather hard-to-believe number.
It took me 10 seconds to subscribe to the new one from the links in the announcement post so not particularly impactful to me
Suspect there will be a lot of this over the next year or so while people figure out how everything works
You don't need to move instance to subscribe to the new community. You can do that with your existing account from any instance.
I like anything that pulls users away from big instances and onto smaller ones. Guys, it's not a DECENTRALIZED system if you're all centralizing on one massive instance.
The advantage to decentralized to me is not to have more instances, its that if things go wrong everyone can bail.
To where, if the big instance that everyone centralized on goes to shit? The internet itself is decentralized. Anyone can run a website, but no matter how enshittified corporate websites become, people are "somehow" still stuck on Google, Meta, Microsoft etc. websites and services.
I wish there was a way to keep communities "in sync", like you have the big and small communities with the same posts and comments, everything's the same, so people who are on Lemmy.world could go to Android@Lemmy.World and have the same content we have here without having to discover this community.
Would help combat fragmentation, and the sync could be broken if things go south
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, truly. The hope is to actually have better accessibility from across the Fediverse with the move. Lemmy.world is grappling with some challenges that come along with its scale, including being de-federated from Beehaw. Lemdro.id currently maintains federation with both and, with the fixes Cole made to the Lemmy Nginx config, should be accessible just fine from Fedia as well.
One major plus here is also our time zone coverage for moderation. Steve and Devgard help fill out our moderator time zone spread, which is quite comprehensive now. We're already seeing attempts at spam in the Fediverse and moderator tools aren't quite there yet... so the manual efforts are pretty key!
I agree. I can understand this is a tech-focused instance but that doesn't means Lemmy World was not right for us. If someone creates an Android-focused instance then we would move again because that would be even more suitable than this one?
However I expect the community to keep growing and next time it would be nice if mods ask the members before taking decisions that affect the whole community.
lemdro.id was actually created with the original intent of hosting Android, but has kind of grown a little to more general technical content in the same realm. I definitely hear your point though. Personally, my hope is this helps take load off of lemmy.world. This is my contribution to make the fediverse more viable long-term as it continues to grow
I'm still learning about the fediverse. How does this community fund itself long term?
To add on to what @ijeff said, eventually the plan is to open up community contributions. However, they are not needed since so far hosting costs are looking to be around $40/mo (for a setup which is highly available!) which is low enough I'm happy to fund it for eternity.
I've seen other instances have luck with asking for low amounts of contributions through ko.fi or GitHub sponsors and we will eventually do something similar. I'm waiting until I have the infrastructure in a stable place (i.e. not changing too much) and I have open-sourced all of the setup work.
Glad to see this has been solved thanks to Cole addressing a bug in the Lemmy's Nginx config!
Heads up, you can actually also edit submission titles on Lemmy as well!
Thanks. That was something that I always though was dumb about reddit.
It's amazing what we end up acclimating to. Such a basic feature. Glad to see it here!
Working now for me.
My subscription here is still showing as pending, why?