I’m curious to get your thoughts on Lemmy. What is your impression so far? Are you enjoying it? What would you like to see different?
If you’re using Lemdit, then I’m really interested to get your feedback on what your experience is like. Is there anything we can improve? Any other suggestions or ideas?
I’ll probably be using lemdit as much as my other instance, tbh. I won’t call it a back up. :)
What made you start lemdit, if it’s okay to ask? Sorry, I’m just always curious. Lol. I understand you’re doing it alone and I know it can be quite a handful.
I don’t mind at all.
I love the idea of self-hosted services in general. It’s a fun hobby and hosting things that other people find useful makes me feel like I’m giving something back. Privacy is also something that is important to me on principle.
Before Lemmy I used to host a few public alternative front-ends for major platforms, such as Invidious for YouTube, Nitter for Twitter, or Libreddit for Reddit, etc. I’ve never been a massive Reddit user, in fact I never had a registered account, but I used Libreddit quite a bit. The changes Reddit was making to its API were also going to kill Libreddit, which is how I became aware of it.
Reddit was not alone in their crackdown either. YouTube recently threatened the devs of Invidious with legal action, Nitter is being chipped away at by Musk’s changes (but somehow keeps getting resurrected), etc. Alternative front-ends, while a very ingenious way to evade the dystopian tracking on these platforms, are a losing battle unfortunately. Federated services have the promise of something new entirely.
So I looked into Lemmy and it appeals to me a lot more than Mastodon ever did. I think it’s a format that works well as a federated platform (growing pains notwithstanding). So I decided to ditch my alternative privacy front ends and go all in on making the Fediverse work for everyone, in whatever small way I can.
So that’s how Lemdit was born. I already had the servers, the fast connectivity and the know-how, so it felt like the right thing to do.
My investment into Lemdit is mostly my time and effort, it otherwise doesn’t cost me very much to run. This makes Lemdit fairly sustainable, since I’m not fighting an ever increasing hosting bill every month like most other instances that host via VPS - this post explains more about our setup if you’re curious: https://lemdit.com/post/13
I honestly lol’d at the title. I’ll be sure to check the link.
But seriously, thank you for starting the instance and specially for being very open and transparent. I appreciate that you took the time to answer.
I’ve said this to my previous instance owner and I mean it - please do ask help/assistance if anything gets to be too much. Personally, I’d be glad to help out in any way I can.
Best of luck! And I hope this instance grows. It’d be great to be a part of it.
Edit: wow. That’s a pretty powerful potato!
No worries, and thank you for the offer to help, I will keep it in mind.
Thanks! I’m not advertising Lemdit at all, only those that discover it on their own stay and I like that, I think it mostly attracts quality people. Lemdit will never be a large instance, I think ~1k people is probably its workable ceiling before other problems start to emerge (admin related rather than hardware), but we’ll see what the future holds. We’re a long way from that right now.
Yes the potato is… a well grown one :)