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They’d probably try DMCA takedowns I imagine.

Me and my cousins taking turn to move “our” character in UFO Enemy Unknown.

Whoa, definitively interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Smaller lemmy instances runs great on a raspberry pi 3 I’ve heard.

Different experiences I suppose. Used Contabo to host an ansible setup of Lemmy, never had a single outage for 6 months.

I know how it is to have a hobby where it’s hard to find someone to share it with. Really niché stuff some of it. I find that my hobby comes from a passion for doing something for the fulfillment of doing it. Or the enjoyment of the end result.

When it feels like a draining chore I some times realize my hobby has grown into a commitment, a chore. Not something that lifts me and brings positivity any more.

I guess it’s no longer a hobby but just something I used to enjoy. And often miss enjoying. But everything changes, such is life. Sometimes it’s time for me to move on.

Good grief, there’s only three posts in there and all three of them is the worst thing I’ve seen all day.

Hey, I advocate https even for LAN only, most people don’t think about the Wifi attack vector. That’s why I use self signed certs on my LAN stuff, I just don’t care about that yellow padlock that disappears when I trust the website. I’ve only experienced a single app ever that didn’t accept self-signed (I’m looking at you wallabag app).

I can understand how it would be different if family members suddenly starts asking if it’s true when their devices tell them the webside is potentially dangerous.

Yes, it’s dangerous to surveillance capitalism

People… watching money?

Forget it, I’ll set it up with a regular cert and external access

Neat, might have to look more into that the next time I redo my setup.

I’m so so. Maybe they’ll provide something close to what I thought I was buying a few years ago…

But since it’s CD Project Red I’ll believe the rework it when I see it and I’m not gonna pay 40 dollars to have a look due to a review embargo like with the main game.

My only purchase from CDPR is CP2077 so my experience with them has been exclusively world class bullshit. I don’t understand how people could praise them for being the best video game company or feel hyped for another possible gaming letdown of the decade. In the same decade, lol.

Will there be any issues running SSL certs if all of my internal service are inward facing, with no WAN access?

If you’re using a third party CA, periodically renewing certificates in my experience. The authority needs to be able to connect to the device it’s issuing a cert to, for it to handle a security challenge iirc.

If you set up your own CA, none that I know of.

My main goal is to keep my home setup off of the internet.

Then I don’t understand the need for neither domain names nor third party signed certs. Can’t you use PiHole as a configurable DNS server, just make any domain name go to any of your local devices?

I created a site directory early on to mitigate this issue but it was too much work to manually curate, even with help. Webrings is a nice idea, but I can’t really see moderators send users away to competing, practically identical communities. In my experience they rather just crosspost to their own.

I think my dream solution would be to subscribe to all know i.e. !gaming communities and post to my local gaming community knowing everybody will see my posts because my community is included in the “subscribe to all known !gaming communities” that others have subscribed to.

How did Lemmy devs solve this?

When the devs released an update that allowed Lemmy to communicate properly with Mastodon and Friendica, a lot of the echo-chamber effect disappeared. But the dominance of larger instances kept up, sure anybody could find a smaller instance or even spin up their own and be auto-featured on join-lemmy.org - But with practically everybody subscribing and posting to existing and established communities it was hard to challenge the monopoly and get a foot in the door.

I’ve seen instances with hundreds of posts relegated to irrelevance, no upvotes, no comments. Because they weren’t able to get the word out so people could have a choice to subscribe. Because they were blocked from the big announcement forums.

The only way to find them was to use the lemmy landing page and manually browse all instances to hunt down interesting subs. If I’m blocked from posting on the “new forums” section of lemmy.world, how would you ever know about my new forum? It would be dead in the water.

Or did they even?

Wider federation with Friendica/Mastodon++ was always planned. The reddit influx is by chance. I feel that the things that have changed the wider lemmy culture for the better have been by chance or as a by-product. Not by design.

And that’s why I believed, and still belive, the Lemmyverse needed some externally driven changes. You have no idea the difference between now and 6-12 month ago. Being able to just post somewhere without being afraid of a misinterpreted comment could communaly block hundred of fellow instance users from a majority of the total lemmyverse content has been… Illuminating on the plights of people living in totalitarian states.

I have half of the internet download to my home media server which I stream from… Sounds silly in one way when I think about it, but I have tens of terras at home and not all that much space on my phone.

If I can just subscribe to all instances that are tagged under a certain topic,

That’s sounds like a good idea. Instances can be very diverse, I think it would be better to tag individual communities but all that’s hypothetical. At the moment, anything is better than nothing.

I thought Manyverse had to redo the entire SSB protocoll due to limitations in the structure?

I read up on the Manyverse blog while writing this comment, the new protocol is named… PPPPP.

Ayy.

No, I can go to instances I know my previous home instance federated with and read my old posts and comments right now.

can someone start up a server on their personal laptop?

Anyone can start a lemmy instance on their Raspberry micro computer, personal laptop, dedicated home server, script-compatible NAS’es and on and on.

But most Lemmy instances are hosted on VPS’s for stability and scaleability.

The other problem is that eventually you will have only a few large servers because people who join will want as much content as possible.

This is an issue I’ve talked about before with the general response of “It’ll sort itself out”. Now, a few years later it’s total fragmentation and a budding centralization with the new “megainstances”.

I envision special interest servers that are monolithic in community nature, dominating certain topics. Unless there’s some sort of mitigation, like a federated subscription list+multi"reddits" or something similar.

This is correct, I can find old posts from an account I deleted ages ago from an instance that doesn’t exist still floating around those we federated with.