If it’s ever something you want to try, it’s one of the easier servers to self host and there’s a lot of helpful resources out there. There really isn’t any coding involved outside of editing a few configuration files unless you want there to be.

This is one reason that I think many people should consider running their own single-user instance or tiny instances for close friends/family.

One of the problems with centralization is literally the fact that this can happen. The more small servers the fedi is comprised of, the stronger it is. There are also a huge number of benefits to this configuration on an individual level as well.

EDIT: Re: importing/exporting your old account is, unfortunately, a thing that cannot be done currently. I’m happy to be corrected on that, though.

Unrelated but I’m very impressed with how well this posted to Lemmy from Mastodon. Exceptional

I think he’s finally figure out The Thing this time, guys.

Lol I used a script to overwrite my 13 years of fairly active redditing with a join-lemmy.org link

That dude straight up has no fucking idea what’s going on.

Wow, they’re doing an impressively shitty job of owning Reddit.

This is good news. I have complete faith that tech companies will find a way to make a shitshow out of this but I hope that this is just the first of many steps like this.

Once again, prisoners are forced to do the necessary work for no compensation.

I’m going to be honest, that sounds like we’d just be inventing something for people to get mad about. The entire ethos of decentralization is for that sort of arrangement to not be a thing. Either the charter would have nobody to enforce it OR you’d have to centralize authority.

What you’re describing works for various instances to form a sort of collective with shared ideals but projecting that onto the entire network is antithetical to the entire idea here.

Also, and this is nitpicky, I admit-- You’re not in the Lemmyverse. You’re in the Fediverse, a space in which lemmy is a very new and small part.

“Youtube considering incentivizing piracy”

“First they came for the hot singles in my area and I said nothing. Now, as they try to take my hot new deals, I must legislate”

Yeah this is a weird one. I don’t really know how the line gets drawn between training an AI and plagiarism. My gut feeling is that this feels like suing somebody for being inspired by your work or learning a new word from it.

Oh no please not Meta.

I’m having the same experience on Lemmy that I had on reddit 13 years ago. It’s fucking awesome

Surely this will sooth the protestors