• CapnAssHolo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1281·
    2 years ago

    Neat. I tried getting into fediverse a couple time during the last 3 years and everytime I’d get bored after a day or two.

    This time it feels different though. I never imagined there would be this much activity on here. We really oughta thank spez lmao

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        Precisely! And unlike Twitter or Facebook you’re not reliant to other specific people.

        Reddit have us an opening we wouldn’t have had otherwise.

        I think lemmy has the potential to break the fediverse wide open.

        • gk99@kbin.social
          17·
          2 years ago

          Not just Lemmy, since that’s the cool thing federation allows. This is a Lemmy instance and you’re posting from Lemmy, but I’m reading and posting from kbin. Even in its early stages, we’ve got two big different alternatives that share the same content, which is dope.

      • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
        12·
        2 years ago

        It became pretty much permanent for me, now I’m more on kbin the last few days than Reddit (like at least a 10:1 ratio in terms of minutes spent), where I only use reddit if I need some info that can’t be found anywhere else and that AI can’t answer me. I’m pretty sure even the real “2 days” folks will come here full-time as soon as the API changes go through and most apps for Reddit stop working.

        Federation really helps too because here I get an active flow of interesting posts from this and different instances and communities unlike Reddit where you scroll r/popular once and you’re done for the day.

        I also tend to write much more extensive and informative comments on here than on Reddit, which probably comes with the territory, but I’ve seen it with other people too.

        • Kayzels@lemmy.fmhy.ml
          10·
          2 years ago

          I don’t write extensive and informative comments, but I am posting a lot more comments than I used to on Reddit. It feels more open.

          • rbanerjee@lemmy.sdf.org
            5·
            2 years ago

            Same here. And, as someone father up this thread observed, forcing a big exodus in a short span of time is the Best possible way to bootstrap this migration :)

      • foxofax474@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        yea most definetely. I think the initial momentum is important, with peopel more willing to get used to the new platform and UI lol

      • niktemadur@kbin.social
        6·
        2 years ago

        Each day that passes, your brain makes a wider and wider path for any new format, the place and its’ different rhythm become more familiar and comfortable.

    • dbemol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Personally, I hated Mastodon, its architecture is just no user-friendly and mass adoption is very unlikely. I’m loving Lemmy tbh!

    • Otome-chan@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      This is my experience as well. albeit my other experiences on the fediverse were with mastodon; and the twitter-style of doing things is much harder to feel like you’re getting the content you’re after or feeling like there’s a lot going on.

  • PirateForDaLolz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    68·
    2 years ago

    That’s awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I’m not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we’re probably safer here.

    • bric@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there’ll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there’s no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn’t this one

      • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        The instance owner is an anarchist that doesn’t care about copyright. We aint shutting down unless he gets sued, and the case also needs standing. As long as we dont link directly to pirated content, we’re fine.

      • Gatsby@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        The risk is significantly reduced if the instance its running on and the domain host is in a country that isnt legally obligated to honor DMCA takedowns. Wothout doing research, this instance likely is in a major country, and therefor not its permanent location because of this. but whats different than reddit is we have the capability to host the servers ourself where we want.

        Once(if) its taken down, another instance can be run from a more friendly country and DMCA notices wont have any weight legally.

        The only problem then would be popular home instances going excommunicado with the pirate instance like that bee one did recently

        • qtj@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Even popular home instances going excomunicado isn’t a huge deal, as people can just make an alternative account just for this instance. Jerbora already supports multiple accounts so it’s hardly an inconvenience.

  • collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    59·
    2 years ago

    I’m assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the “fediverse”

    • Kayzels@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      If I had the money, I would. Alas, I’m a university student with no real source of income.

          • suodrazah@lemmy.nine-hells.netEnglish
            12·
            2 years ago

            4 ARM64 cores, 24GB of RAM and 200GB of storage, and some other resources and older x86, for the low low price of free. 10TB outgoing limit, no incoming limit as far as I know. You can setup one or many VPS using the resources.

            https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

            I have a a full media stack running on one - Plex, Tautulli, Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, Qbittorrent, Jackett among other services like Portainer, YTDL, Traefik. I’ve seen 8+ streams with 4 or 5 720p transcodes, the CPU is pegged but it keeps up.

            For storage I use a combo of services. Rclone, mounting a remote google drive to /mnt/remote. Cloudplow, takes stuff from /mnt/local folder and directly uploads to the remote drive via gdrive API using the same rclone config. And mergerfs, takes the /mnt/remote and /mnt/local folders and combines them into a /mnt/merged folder. The /mnt/merged folder is the main folder for media, downloads, etc. Any writes are first stored in /mnt/local.

            I describe that setup to demonstrate the capacity of a free service, of course much less complex for a seedbox.

            • collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              I know almost nothing about servers but that sounds very capable. Why do they offer it for free? How many lemmy users do you think it can handle?

              • suodrazah@lemmy.nine-hells.netEnglish
                5·
                2 years ago

                Free because you can roll into a paid service easily, it’s a trap really. But if you can stay within the free limits then it’s gold.

                Lots of users. Depends on storage requirements, 200GB could be limiting if you want to host media.

            • dbemol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              I never managed to pass the sign-up form, I gave up with Oracle. If you are able to access it, please abuse their resources the most possible

            • driftyEnglish
              0·
              2 years ago

              As far as I’m aware you only get two 1 gb ram instance on Oracle cloud free, where are you getting this 24 gb ram instance?

                • driftyEnglish
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  I just checked, my area domain (or whatever that’s called) does not have the machines to provision 🥲

    • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s probably at the same level of difficulty to set up your own seedbox (i.e. in a VPS or even your own hardware) as it is to set up your own actual Lemmy instance.

      Merelly figuring out the fediverse is way less complicated than either of those.

  • dbemol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit’s fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.

    FUCK YOU SPEZ!

    • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      The other subs dont want to bother with the hassle of moving. They just want a “show of force” without actually having backup plans. Piracy subreddit is dying, the other subs can choose to stay, but we have no choice, we had to move.

    • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      I think with users who know the basics about internet piracy, switching to a Lemmy instance wasn’t difficult.

      • Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        ngl one of the main reasons i went with this instance is because i figure pirates have experience keeping a server running

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
      10·
      2 years ago

      I am having a difficult time reaching kbin from lemmy but I’m glad it works better in reverse

      • Killer_Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        10·
        2 years ago

        Reddit: Constantly getting worse. Lemmy: Under active development and (hopefully) improving over time.

        I know which community I want to invest my time in.

      • Micromot@kbin.social
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yeah the developer is currently working on improving the federation in the other direction. Reaching other instances from kbin works well already

  • morekraut@kbin.social
    18·
    2 years ago

    Funny, how this sub and post was displayed as the first one after completing my registration on kbin :'D

      • FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        I feel like I see Kbin mentioned way more often when I’m on my Kbin account, even when on posts from Lemmy. Anyone else notice that? I guess it just has to be like an attention bias.

        • Morgikan@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, I noticed that too. I’m not sure if that’s just due to that being local content and maybe mirroring remote content is slowed down with all the new activity and instances coming online. I also see in user settings a text box for “Featured Magazines” but I can’t find any documentation on what/how that works. I would figure it would prioritize those mags, but I’m not sure of anything yet.

          • Micromot@kbin.social
            11·
            2 years ago

            If there are stats on growth and activity you could choose quickly growing or very active subs and put them in a slot in the sidebar

            • Morgikan@kbin.social
              2·
              2 years ago

              Is that something we can already do or do you mean that as an idea? That’s a neat idea if so. I don’t think a user’s subscription page is locked out, so might be neat to replace the random mag block with newly updated subscribed mags via greasemonkey script or something.

      • BuddhaBeettle@kbin.social
        31·
        2 years ago

        I do feel like Im in some kind of multiverse alright. Its new and weird, but also quite nice, knowing that many platforms are connected.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago

      I understand the importance of maintaining history, but I’m curious about what historical info is there that you think is worth saving? News about sites/trackers will be available elsewhere. We’d just be losing the Reddit-local community comments.

      In my opinion, the main thing that would be useful would be bringing info over from the wiki, or stuff that should have been on it. Guides and such.

      Unfortunately the info would need to be migrated manually right now. There’s a decent number of posts across the fediverse right now looking for people to make a bot or script to copy content from reddit over to the fediverse. Apparently no suitable tools exist for automating it yet, and I’d imagine the Reddit API changes are just going to complicate efforts as the tool would probably need to use web scraping rather than the API.