Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.

MacOS.

Prefer Linux but I like the Apple hardware so I’m giving it a try.

Actually we still can add posts and comments, but just users from our instances and the ones we federate with can see it.

I’m a little confused myself as a Lemmy.world user. I was able to leave a comment on a behaw technology forum and got upvotes on it.

This whole Japan nuclear wastewater thing going around the news has me shaking my head.

The word nuclear in general just scares people.

Email is the one thing I don’t bother self hosting.

You need to use an existing host with reputation or most of your emails will end up in junk or be outright blocked.

What’s to stop someone from just not checking the ‘bot account’ option for their bot though?

I think it’s just because this guy left a comment, the algorithm picked up the post again.

Kinda like ‘bumping’ a thread in the forum days.

This post is 2 years old lol

If they didn’t get paid by Reddit they likely sold it on the dark web.

Damn, 20k subs already!?!

I could have sworn it was 7k like 3 days ago.

Uh no, you can’t. It’s like any game with DRM.

You can’t play most games on steam without logging in at least once.

Just use TLLauncher.

It really boils down to availability. A VPS will usually be more reliable than a home network.

For 99% of personal use though a home network behind a dynamic DNS service will be more than good enough.

I pay them nearly $100 a month for internet. They can get fucked if they want to dictate what legal things I do with it.

Implementation quirks.

I find even across instances in the same app, the content can change.

One of the growing pains, it will be solved with time.

Another Pro tip:

If you really want to self host and have good internet speeds, then just use a dynamic dns service to point a domain at your home network :)

It’s free minus the power costs. Sure you won’t be able to guarantee availability but for most personal(and friends/family) use it’s more than good enough.

I say this because the reason a lot of people use VPS is because their ISP won’t give them a static IP. You don’t need a static IP.

The problem is a UI thing too. In wefwef for example half the time you go to post something and it says ‘error posting’, your comment actually did post. But sometimes it doesn’t.

I typically go until I see success and then delete any duplicates I left on accident.

For real, on Reddit an 8 hour old post and nobody will see your comment.

Here I can comment on a post 2 days old and still get replies.

Yes but it will take at least a few years of organic use before you can do what we do with Reddit and add ‘Lemmy’ at the end of your search query.

I’m really confident Lemmy can be the future, so I’m being as active as possible while it’s small.

To everyone reading this: if you see a post with 0 comments, even a few days old, leave one. You could spark a conversation.

As early adopters, it’s important for us to be active on the platform. You see posts without comments, and then don’t leave a comment yourself because of it.

Be the change you want to see! Leave that first comment to spark a discussion.