Yeah nothing is quite perfect yet, and I’m figuring out my priority features as I keep going. The future is bright though.

+1 for Liftoff. I’ve got 4 apps and wefwef pwa going and I keep finding myself going to Liftoff more and more frequently.

I recently found out Nova was purchased by an analytics company. I don’t have any proof or solid reason to think they’re up to no good necessarily. But I have zero desire to use something as integral as a launcher that’s owned by a company like that.

I moved to Neo Launcher and it’s been 95% as good as Nova. The knock is just some fine tunings that Nova had, but I’m not having any issues with Neo.

Another vote for downgrading. I also started trying out “Connect for Lemmy” and it’s been pretty slick.

I see the anybody but GoDaddy thing a lot too. The controversies page on Wikipedia does a decent job at pointing out some of the reasons people dislike them.

Looking at feature set though, I’m in the same boat as you. Part of it is me being lazy though. When my registrations come up for renewal in a few years I’ll take a serious look at porkbun.

What is your resource utilization like? I know larger instances obv have their own quirks but one of my unknowns is what specs for the server.

I’m also curious about disk space. I’ve seen people self hosting say their usage grows about 500M per day (but no mention on the amount of communities they actively federate) which would fill up my Hetzner box in about a few months. Having never adminned Lemmy, is there some sort of content deletion job that removes stuff after X amount of days?

Lastly, from what I understand the federated tab only shows stuff from instances (or is it down to the community level?) where at least 1 user in your home instance is subscribed. Did you just have to go out and browse communities you’re interested in and follow them yourself? Or maybe with an alt account?

Mint chip 100%

Thanks for the .atom tip. I’ve been messing with Diun to try and keep up on updates but I run so many different things it ends up being useless by the time I get around to wanting to actually do the updates. I’ll add the ones I super care about to Miniflux though and see if that’s more doable for me

Also possible, yeah.

fsociety00.dat

I’ve been trying to find this out as well. I haven’t found anything that even claims they’ve shown Reddit any legitimate data. Seems like a “trust me bro, we have what we say we have” situation

kbin + Sync is the dream. Hopefully the kbin dev(s?) Can make that happen. At this point I’m only using Lemmy because jerboa is somewhat serviceable and I don’t like either web UI on mobile

I really enjoyed my short time with Infinity. I was just seeing what else is out there and that one checked almost all of my boxes. I couldn’t get over the bright ass green they used when a comment was fully collapsed though. Still a fantastic app and I hope that dev continues to succeed.

This is pretty much how I expected it to go. All we can do now is hope whatever scabs take over are terrible at the job and the ship continues to sink.

I have a base Debian template with a few tweaks I like for all my machines. Debating setting up something like terraform but I just don’t spin up VMs frequently enough to wan tto do that. I do have a few Ansible playbooks I run on a fresh server to really get it to where I want though.