Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
My self-hosted instance seems to be working well, but I can’t figure out how to federate with other platforms such as mastodon.
I guess we’ll figure it out at some point.
I think Mastodon federation is one-way atm. They can see our stuff, we can’t see theirs unless they post a reply to a post/comment. This is because there’s no way in a reddit-like to subscribe to a user, and not a community.
From their point of view, communities are users making posts.
On reddit, you’re able to subscribe to users (with the add friend feature) and it shows all their comments more or less in isolation
That makes sense. But if I try to search for https://lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz/c/test on a Mastodon instance, such as lor.sh or mastodon.social, I would expect it to work, but it doesn’t.
Btw, protip, if you format the link like [this](/c/test@server), the link is instance agnostic (at least on web, not implemented yet for Jerboa)
Interesting! Let me test this: test.
Yup! Shows up for me as https://sh.itjust.works/c/test@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz
What kind of resource usage are you seeing on your instance? I have a droplet running and was wondering about setting up my own instance.
I’m running lemmy on a Raspberry PI 4, and resource usage is very low. If I look at the logs I see a neverending stream of ActivityPub requests that keep coming in (I subscribed to the most popular communities), but the resource usage stays low. Occasionally, the CPU usage of lemmy-ui or postgres jumps up a few percent, but nothing too crazy.
I’m not sure how this will evolve is communities keep growing though, since the amount of requests might increase.
Oh, that’s a great idea! I have a raspberry pi I could run an instance on, too. Now I need to figure it whether running an instance is worthwhile or not.