Out of curiosity, where do you have your backup account in case of outage or shutdown of your home instance? This has been on my mind since the .ml fiasco started.
The only way right now is using tools that migrate your settings from one account to another such as this one https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Thanks for this. It’s good to know. I also wonder which other instances have people found helpful for creating a secondary account.
You can use https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list to make a decision. Usually I filter by 1m (monthly active users) and then test them for ping
I have my secondary account on lemmy.sdf.org . Their uptime speaks for itself and they federate with almost every other instance. SDF is also a great project in itself.
I just have my own private instance, saves me worrying about data ownership
If you know your way around a terminal, it takes less than 10 minutes to install using the Ansible approach.
its not bad at all, just the rust based backend and the nodejs based ui and it only needs postgres and a reverse proxy like nginx to send traffic to the right place.
That’s like 4 technologies to set up, thank god there’s docker and nginx proxy with acme companion xD
I’m thinking someone could just sell “fediboxes”, plug n play servers with hosted lemmy, ddns and a free domain for lazy people
I did the same. Lemmy-Easy-Deploy made thinhs easy.
I would pick an instance that is local/regional to you or one that is based on a specific interest area.
In my case I went with aussie.zone
I’ll take a look at the closest regional. Given where I’m located in the US, though, I suspect that the Local feed would be all but unbearable to me.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this. https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map
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Funnily enough, under this post in my feed, is a post that says Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works are DOWN. Lol
Speed: something closer. Search: big instances. Lots of communities would have been subscribed to.
Big instances probably will be bigger targets for hacks. Smaller instances may be likelier to disappear.