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Between Beehaw and LemmyWorld, I'm on my third account at this point. What starts as an alt quickly becomes the main under the right circumstances. ๐
Gotta choose progressively smaller instances until you self-host.
It's pretty nice down here.
You can solve your "problem" by running your own instance and federate with whoever you want
Thats actually what Iโm gonna do at some point. Your instance needs to be exposed, right? No chance it would work behind a firewall without a tunnel?
If you want to federate, then yes. Your instance needs to accept the activity pub messages sent by the instances you federate with. You would also need to send out the apub notices whenever you do activity on your instances
That makes total sense. I guess it was wishful thinking on my side. So Iโll need to wait until Iโm ready to get a vps then. Thanks for elaborating. :)
Join smaller instances, they don't do that there
I wish I could find the post/comment from a small instance admin that said it quickly became a nightmare trying to moderate without a team, and people were filling their drive storage with white noise files and crap, needing to be purged twice. I believe they even mentioned they were shutting down the instance and it being a cautionary tale of why not to join a smaller instance.
EDIT: waveform.social
https://waveform.social/post/310138
Thank you so much for finding it! This is it. It really sucks that it has to come to that.
I read the exact comment you just quoted. Iโm not sure either who it was but I could check if I answered to it :)
But anyway, Iโd be down to help if anyone needs help. I already told the admin of my instance that Iโm game.
Any recommendation? I don't want to accidentally sign up on some right wing instance etc.
my instance is pretty cool, but i think it would be better for you to find an instance that's tailored to your hobby/past time.