• @jetsetdorito
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    2211 months ago

    I’ve been on .world since it was smaller but I’m debating on a new instance 🤔

    • 001100 010010
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      11 months ago

      There are few I can recommend.

      reddthat.com - reddthat is a play on the name reddit but “that” instead of “it”, sound cool, aint it? 😆

      lemmy.fmhy.ml - Pirate Friendly - NSFW friendly

      lemmy.dbzer0.com - Pirate Friendly - SFW only - run by former top mod of r/piracy - the instance I’m currently using

        • @[email protected]
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          711 months ago

          I like how your “self interest” is providing a free platform to strangers. More of that kind of self interest in the world please.

      • @GodyGade
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        If we are doing play on instance names. Then I would like one named lemmy.know. As in “let me know”

      • @foofiepie
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        211 months ago

        Serious question… with ‘reddthat’ or ‘feddit’ and other similar plays on words… if this absolutely takes off (and I hope it does), can Spez not sue?

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          11 months ago

          SFW only for any community on dbzer0, but you can post and view nsfw when visiting other instances. We’re a pirate instance so I assume the admin don’t want to attract more attention by including potentially illegal porn. Idk why lemmy.fmhy.ml allows it tho.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            Ah, so that sfw-only status is largely irrelevant to me since I mostly browse communities outside of dbzer0, except of course for c/piracy

    • @[email protected]
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      1111 months ago

      I just switched from lemmy.world to sh.itjust.works after a day and it is completely different experience since it actually loads stuff fast

  • MacFearrs
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    2011 months ago

    Big part of the concept of a fediverse is the decentralisation. It would be beneficial I think for more people to register on smaller-medium sized instances to help reduce the load on the large few

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        211 months ago

        How much does it cost to run your own instance? Do you have to pay the whole domain, server, security package with a service like cloudflare and all?

        • DrWeevilJammer
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          611 months ago

          Mine is running on a €2.49 Hetzner VM. I already have a domain, so Lemmy is just set up on a subdomain. I secured it myself (that sort of thing is my day job). I don’t think I’ll need to upgrade, because it’s a closed instance with only 2 users.

          All told, it would be maybe €50/year if you’re starting from nothing.

        • @[email protected]
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          211 months ago

          I haven’t researched it at all but I’d be very surprised if you needed anything more than a domain name (basically free as long as you don’t go for a common TLD) and somewhere to host it (literally free if you do it on a home PC but that comes with other issues). Cloudflare and extra security are nice but aren’t necessary for something like this.

  • @GingeyBook
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    711 months ago

    I’m playing both sides

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      1111 months ago

      I was going to reply with “so I always come out on top” on my lemmy.ml account but it’s down lol

    • MentalEdge
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      311 months ago

      Yes. outbound federation can get bottle-necked, and when it’s bad enough, it starts dropping content entirely.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      211 months ago

      Yeah, the processes that perform the actual federating via ActivityPub can quickly become overwhelmed, a server can develop a backlog. The solution is a combination of bug fixes by the software project and performance setting tweaks by server administrators to fine tune the federation processes