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Mi è arrivato, quindi direi che ha funzionato, benvenuto!

They can contribute to the same communities, but communities live on specific instances.

The main difference between instances is the moderation policy and who runs it really, but nobody is generally missing out anything depending on the instance they choose.

There is one exception to the above, which is when instances defederate each other. Imagine that instance A is full of content that is not accepted on B and C, B and C can defederate A to stop "talking to it". Currently beehaw has defederated Lemmy.world because of the amount of users and moderation capabilities, for example.

Aha, yes that makes perfect sense. I remembered now that I checked some time ago and my DNS is not supported. But maybe I will move to acme-dns, it seems very hacky, I love it!

For cert-manager to work you need to have the ingress controller port (or I guess another port) exposed publicly? Or it supports DNS verification? I thought about doing this, but I am essentially having my cluster fully in a private network which I connect with wireguard from outside, but maybe I should reconsider?

I am keen to know a little bit more about your setup

I also use gitea, in a bit unstructured way. I do have a dedicated project which I use for project "management" (I.e. dump ideas about new services, new tools to write, improvements and sometimes bugs to fix), I also use repo specific issues for things that concern that particular repo (I have terraform repos, ansible repo, code repos, kubernetes/flux repos etc.). I also use taskwarrior for my actual to do list, which is more general than my homelab.

The main point for me is just not to forget about stuff, but I don't want to do issue tracking in a way that feels like my second job. For this gitea projects work quite nicely, and they are easily tied to PRs, so that I can go back and easily cross reference what I did for a specific issue.

The rational is that now people do it, because it's meme. How much before people get bored of the John Oliver meme? A week? Two? After that you stop going to /r/pics, /r/piracy, etc. Effectively exactly like the sub is closed.

It is basically a proxy for what a lot of people did "open the sub and do no moderation", but more active. You "moderate" the sub in a way that people won't get the content. Once you are out looking for content, then there is a better chance you will move elsewhere (some will go to /r/privacy2, some will go to Lemmy, some will go to whatever).

Io come unico problema ho che l'editor di testo di Jerboa ogni tanto svalvola e quando cancello una lettera mi cancella anche una lettera prima della parola (cioè lo spazio), e quindi devo riscrivere un paio di parole. Magari è il mio telefono però.

Comunque a parte questo, decisamente mi trovo bene. Almeno un paio di comunità sono molto attive e interessanti.

Anche io come altri poi ho sentito un po' il dover morale e un po' la voglia di interagire di più con i post e commenti.

Sono curioso di vedere se dopo il 1 luglio ci sarà un'altra ondata di rifugiati che farà superare la massa critica a molte comunità!

Ho notato per esempio che /r/Italyinformatica è praticamente un deserto, e /r/Italy stesso ha molta meno attività. La verità è che non serve avere 300k persone, un paio di migliaia di persone attive è più che sufficiente per avere un posto dove discutere cose interessanti e in maniera piacevole.

Se apri Lemmy da browser, e clicchi sulle opzioni, da qualche parte dovresti avere qualcosa tipo "add to home screen". In pratica ti aggiunge il link alla pagina come se fosse una app. Siccome l'interfaccia del sito si adatta ai dispositivi (per esempio riorganizzando i contenuti per schermi più piccoli, etc.), di fatto puoi usare il sito in maniera simile a una app, ma senza app.

In general it's a matter of not exposing your home IP. There are some ISPs that won't give you a public IP either way, so in those cases something else is needed anyway.

Exposing your IP can lead to DDoS, mostly, which can or cannot be a big deal.

I also use kagi.com (the name is quite funny for Italian speakers...).

For those interested in "why", here are my reasons:

• generally, very high quality results.
• completely ad-free and with an ironclad privacy policy (probably the best I have seen so far)
• paid, which can be a downside, but it's also a way for me to know that I am the customer, not advertisers.
• ability to use bangs and to create custom ones
• ability to easily filter by area, there are a fee common areas such as "programming" or "recipe" or "academic" which affect the context of the search.
• ability to up/downrank websites. If I personally find a certain website providing often useful answers for me, I can uprank it and make it show higher in the searches.
• finally, a small cosmetic thing, but the results are organized very nicely, such as "best 10 x" articles being in a simple list and saving space, etc.

As a bonus, the company seems nicely transparent and overall well-intentioned. I hope it stays like this.

I think this is a real problem, but it can be approached from multiple sides:

First, we can make better and simpler ux. This takes time and effort, and it's normal that it will require traction. Secondly, we can normalize a different Internet, and explain, and inform.

Ultimately though, mass platforms with hundreds of millions of people are simply not the target, in my opinion. Definitely we don't want a selection based on technical skills, but we also don't need to replicate whole reddit here, whole twitter on mastodon etc. In case of the fediverse I would say it's important to simply create interesting and self-sustained communities.

In this perspective, maybe then following the path of mastodon and having a "default" instance might make sense?

I had a different experience, to be honest. The sub I am more active in, /r/Italy is open, but it has still a ridiculous activity, and most of the active users wanted an indefinite blackout. A sibling sub, italyinformatica is even more desert (yesterday last post was 4 days ago). I think that in principle the blackout is a very effective way to protest, it worked like a charm to keep me off the site, at least, but I agree that saying "we do it for 2 days" undermines the whole thing.