64bitUser
It’s a bit of the wild west for now, but you’re right. Pretty much anyone can create a community, and I actually think that’s a good thing. Have you ever been part of an online community that you loved, and it shifted to something you just didn’t want to be part of anymore? When that happens, the decentralized nature of Lemmy and similar federated social media makes it possible for a new community to form and grow that is different, and for some, better.
Interestingly, when I search for motorcycles in the communities I only see two. This one, and another that has a single subscriber. Motorcycles are Fun doesn’t show up for me. I think perhaps which communities you see depends on what server you signed up with, and what other servers that one links to. Right now I am signed into lemmy.world. I see from your photo that you were signed in to feddit.de. Perhaps OP was signed into a different server. This is a real problem for Lemmy IMHO. If I can’t search and find ALL the Lemmy communities from my “home” server, and have to create accounts at other servers to see different content and communities, well, forget it. Caveat, I am also brand new and may not have a clue what I’m talking about, just observations from a noob at this point.
If you port forward to your Pi, only your Pi will be exposed. But, if your Pi gets pwned, it can in turn attack anything next to it. Safest is to isolate the Pi on it’s own subnet or a DMZ if your router has the functionality.
Of note, many home ISPs block standard server ports like 80 and 443. You might need to use non standard ports like 8080 and 8443
Yeah I saw that about beehaw, so that’s not unexpected. It’s actually what prompted me to look at how the community appears differently there, and then to look at how it appears elsewhere. Pick any lemmy instance and look at the sysadmin.world community from it, and it looks different than lemmy.world. I just looked at https://reddthat.com/c/sysadmin@lemmy.world/ and there too it only shows 6 comments.
Pick any community and any number of instances and look at the community from several instances, and I see differences. I thought federation would make the same content show everywhere that is federated.
Here is their post about it:
Having multiple communities in different instances for the same topic is a controversial topic that I haven’t yet settled on an opinion about. However, what I’m talking about here is that the content for the same community shows different across various instances. That seems very broken to me
Ah it didn’t occur to me that mods at various instances may be removing individual comments. Can an instance moderate the individual thread comments of a community from another instance? I was thinking that federating with another instance meant all that instance’s threads and comments would be available to your users in turn. If that’s not the case, then the only way for a user to be sure to get all of a community’s content is view it from that community’s home server
