Would be an interesting idea to fork and do a 'Lemmy Lite' which is just a single-person instance, doesn't host any communities, but lets you join communities/federate with them the same way a full install does.

Oh for sure--I just spun up a new droplet to throw it on. There are Docker instructions as well.

The ansible install on ubuntu wasn't too bad, tbh. I haven't touched anything backend since I installed, and it's been chugging!

That's how I went. Time will tell if it eats storage etc, but so far I'm loving the control I have over who to federate with.

I wonder how that would work if an instance gets abruptly shut down. Maybe each time you make an account you get a 'recovery key' that you can link to your new account on a new instance, thereby taking ownership of your old posts (or at least the ones that got federated out of your old instance).

That's a good idea. Allow communities to choose if they are globally or locally subscribable.

I decided to self-host my own instance for that reason. That way I'm actually totally in control of what I'm seeing. It does make finding new communities less organic, but it's easy enough with the new listing tools. Probably not worth the money if all I ran on my server was Lemmy, but as an added service it's great.

100%! I'm excited to see more growth. The federation between kbin and lemmy is great. I love that it can also federate with anything else using ActivityPub, basically.

I feel like that could lead to issues as well. The best way for the fediverse to work is users spread out across many small/medium instances.

Certainly feels like there's some 'ignorance is bliss' to it. Folks don't want to hear something is an ad because it takes away the illusion that their feed is in their control. And they don't want to feel gullible.

Mm, let's open these hexagon shaped icons. Nice hiss.

This is the main issue I see right now as well. I created my own instance for my account to live on, just so I know it will be there as long as I want it to. But that doesn't do anything for communities I'm subscribed to that could, potentially, be on an instance that later goes down.

I think communities of similar topics are going to need to coordinate in the long run, and perhaps run their own instance to house their communities. This way the folks running the community and the folks hosting it are one in the same. You'd have instances that mainly house users, and perhaps a community or two. That's where most folks would have their main account. Then you'd have instances that mainly house content, with few users besides the moderation/admin team(s).