Yunohost is awesome. I use it myself for my Lemmy instance. Unfortunately because YunoHost doesn't use containers and Lemmy now requires psql 15 it's stuck on Lemmy 0.16.7. So it's not ideal if you want the latest version of the sure to be quickly changing Lemmy software.
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YunoHost is a tool which aims to solve the problem of (relatively small scale) self-hosting for people. I use it to host my Mastodon and Lemmy instances and it was very easy. I haven't dealt with email but that's also something it supports.
It's a pretty great platform, although unfortunately it's currently unable to upgrade Lemmy past 0.16.7 which is a bit of a pain.. So it's hard to recommend it for Lemmy right now.
100% agreed with both. Especially DIDs just need to happen on all ActivityPub platforms. It will not only free users from being locked to an instance, but it will also allow instances to be much more flexible in scaling their capacity. Lemmy.ml is overloaded because they have too many users, and anyone who signed up there can no longer use their account. DID would allow them to immediately use their account from any small or large instance with spare capacity without changing the experience. The same would go for Mastodon.
Beehaw only defederated from Lemmy.world because of the currently limited moderation tools in the software. This is not going to be a problem forever.
I hope people can find communities both on large instances (Beehaw, Lemmy.world) as well on as very small niche instances. Discoverability is a bit a problem but I think over time we will find communities we like, and participate in them. What instance they are hosted on is not all that important.
Hey Chris. Seeing more and more people from my Mastodon feed here :)
I'm very impressed by Lemmy. Some of the communities like Beehaw have been excellent, even before the recent Reddit API-apocalypse. Self-hosting has been a bit challenging compared to the more mature (I guess) Mastodon but I hope to get it sorted out soon.
A really good artist who's been on Fedi far longer than most.
The "subscribe & push" model is practically fundamental to ActivityPub. There's pros and cons to this design, but ultimately I think it's confusing and cumbersome for users..
Of course. Here's a quick one:
Pros:
- You don't depend on anyone else's funds or time
- Always available and snappy no matter how busy some parts of the Fediverse get
- You choose who to federate with. Want to talk to both puppy-lovers and puppy-haters? No problem.
- It's a social media account you really, in every sense of the word, own. Nobody can take it away from you. The lemmy.ml admins could accept the billions* they're surely being offered right now for their instance, but my account is still mine.
Cons:
- Hosting costs some money, knowledge, and time.
- Unless you subscribe to specific communities (or people, in the cast of Mastodon) those posts will never reach your server. So you don't really have a "Federated" timeline
*I'm joking about the billions. Probably.
I haven't noticed at all, because I follow communities on lemmy.ml and beehaw.org from my own instance. I had this experience when Mastodon.social kept going down during major Twitter exodus phases. Federation is awesome.
Reddit has a strategy for this which works quite well. I'm not sure how it works, but I suspect it's something like sorting posts in each subreddit you've subscribed to, scoring them based on their popularity inside the subreddit (irrespective of the absolute # votes), and then mixing these posts together on your feed. So an unusually popular post in a niche 100 subscriber subreddit can still easily climb to the top of your feed.
Hey Stux!
Yeah YunoHost is extremely awesome. I use it to host my Mastodon and Lemmy instances. It’s just a little unfortunate that until Debian 12 is supported, their supported Lemmy version is stuck at 0.16.7. So if you want to set up an Lemmy instance today YunoHost might not be ideal.
Hopefully they can get Debian 12 and latest Lemmy support working without any roadblocks.