We run the database and backend on a ax161 on Hetzner. The media is in Wasabi. The alt uis run on a cloud vps.

It would have been better if they communicated to us first. I don’t disagree that user signups should be spread over instances. We now have a link to https://lemmyverse.net on our signup page so people can check if another instance would fit them better.

I have setup bskysocial.world to test that (there’s no web interface, just select this domain when logging in or signing up via the app or https://bsky.app)

Note: This is for testing only, I can’t promise it will remain running.

(I am @ruud.bskysocial.world)

I think the links and usernames are now OK.

Yeah that went wrong when copy/pasting the text, I’ll fix it.

I do host some stuff myself 😉 but there’s one thing to keep in mind.

Don’t self host stuff that your family still needs after you’re gone. Unless they are self host nerds like you. I stopped self hosting our mail and docs for example.

Would you agree?

I did register writefreely.world planning to host that one day, but I need some more selfhosting nerds to help out running all these instances :-) The foundation is now already running a few dozen Fedi instances :-D

I don’t know yet. I think that’s something we need to discuss with the team and get input from the users. (Yes, I did register sublinks.world :-) )

I really hope there will be an option in Lemmy and Sublinks (and bin,mbin etc) to move communities between instances. But I think that’s not very easy. I agree that having a few large instances isn’t how the fediverse is meant to be. Ideally there would be a separate instance for each community.

.world has many instances in the fediverse and existed long before Lemmy.world. Ruud has never, to my knowledge, posed anything like this post about another potential fedi service. The other fediverse services have coexisted without need to position them against each other. This difference in approach implies intentions, if not outright actions with the illusion of user input.

I see my name mentioned here, but I don’t understand the remark. Positioning fediverse services against each other? The team has posted this to get input to assist the Sublinks development team in getting moderation tools in their software. I think it’s good there’s many options in software to choose from. Lemmy, Kbin, Main, Piefed, Sublinks. I also run mastodon, but also similar platforms like firefish, sharkey, akkoma etc. Users can choose. Nothing is positioned against each other. They all work together as 1 large Fediverse. And, the more instances, the better. The fediverse ideally should exist of many instances instead of a few large ones. (Yes, I agree that having 1 big Lemmy server isn’t ideal. But that’s another discussion.)

It’s also an option to just ask if it can be unpinned. You’re welcome. Have a nice day.

That won’t work. I have 340k users on my servers and it just covers the running cost. So with a 100 user instance you would get peanuts.

I added a Liberapay link: https://liberapay.com/fhf/

Ohh I didn’t know there was a minimum setting in Ko-Fi. I changed the minimum there to 1. Thanks!

Ko-Fi or PayPal directly, or crypto

We keep that at https://blog.mastodon.world (I know, I’m behind with that…)

Thanks!!

This is f**kin annoying me. Because we don’t pay for premium support, it takes them hours to respond to an e-mail. So they ask me to specify a time when they can enable the account, so I can immediately remove the content. So I specify 12:00 UTC, but they don’t respond so I need to propose a new time hoping they will respond before that…

Grrr

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No, this time it’s in the Mastodon bucket