Kaiser Of None

Change is annoying, folk don’t like having multiple platforms to talk with. A network is only as strong as the number of participants in ot, and discord has won that by a long shot. I’d love to see Matrox grow myself.

This might be a blessing in disguise. Let’s see how it plays out but I can’t help but feel the interaction between mass media and the internet has not been positive and a divorce might be what’s needed.

Mate there’s a million reasons to not use it, you don’t need to make shit up.

You don’t need to restart per say, like you could migrate everything but it absolutely isn’t necessary; and for a system that’s productive id even avise you not to until you’re more comfortable with docker.

There shouldn’t be any issues with on metal services living together with docker, in fact I have some services running that way myself.

I love the color scheme, what a beauty!

Oh I literally have a single person instance rn, having other stuff sounds useful, I’ll try this out!

Man this was a fun watch, I played minetest a couple of years ago with a whole bunch of mods and it was honestly pretty great, I know this video will bring a bunch of attention to the project and that’s awesome!

Ojalá que tengamos buena adopción la verdad. Aguante la federación y aguante la Mona papá!

This may be late but here’s my besto shot at answering, but to start I feel you should not be running your own instance, you should find one you like and have your community there. Instance administration and moderation are two different jobs.

• yes all text, images and video is stored within your server

• Ansible is a program that allows for automation of server management work, you have two computers, your work machine and your server. Your work machine has Ansible and all the configurations you wish to have, and ansible tells the server what to do to reach the desired state. Lemmy’s playbook (the set of ansible commands and configs) assumes the server has Ubuntu installed.

• instances are set to be federated to everything by default, you can manually change that in the configuration to defederate from specific instances, or even ONLY federated with specific instances. Note that your instance only pulls data from other instances after it has to interact with them (so someone on your instance subbing)

• all IPs can be traced sort of to a location, this is called GeoIP (maxmind offers a general service for that, you can check a few for free on their site). So yeah be careful about using your own connection for hosting anything. You can host on an AWS EC2 instance which will completely remove your connection from the equation, but we’ll you gotta pay for those.

• you are asking good questions, you could have it be a learning experience but if you want safety I’d go with someone else’s instance and just hack around to learn on your own

Good luck mate!

My main desktop computer had been running Ubuntu for 7 years until I had to do a full wipe and decided to move to arch to check it out. I never got the point of distro hopping myself really.

Man I need to give this a try, gives me an excuse to use that old lenovo laptop I have collecting dust on the shelf lol