Who is this and what does this have to do with self hosting?

That’s good to hear!

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Hrm, it looks from the comments like it’s still kind of janky, but definitely a step in the right direction!

Thank you; that’s really good to know!

But yes, it sounds like community migration is a real need.

If it helps, I definitely didn’t think it was AI even after that comment primed me to consider it. There were one or two parts where I went “this is a pattern I see in AI, but mostly that’s because it’s a common writing structure in the stuff AI was trained on.” I am also ND, though.

But also, it annoys me so deeply how many common things in human writing that AI picked up specifically because humans used it are now considered hallmarks of AI. Like, I get it, but also, don’t fuck with my em-dash.

From us, Dad! AI learned it from watching us!!

Specifically regarding the instance chooser point: I like the idea of a rotating cast of high uptime, low barrier instances, but in seeing current Lemmy cross-instance drama, I find myself wondering how best to navigate that.

For context, here’s a bit about my own Lemmy journey: when I signed up after looking for Reddit alternatives, I looked through the instance list, saw a few that looked appealing, and ultimately decided on SJW because it promised that shit would, indeed, just work. I joined via the mobile site in a mobile browser, with no idea yet about any of the apps or a lot of things, I spent a while playing around. In the process, I Ducked around and found out that Beehaw had defederated from SJW due to trolling issuws. Uh-oh! What did that mean? Was there going to be a bunch of stuff I was missing? Worse, had I accidentally joined a Bad Instance that was going to make everyone immediately make assumptions about my values when the only real values that had factored into my choice were “pls make it work?” Were people going to think I was a troll?

As it happens, I did some further research and found that Beehaw was an instance that favored a heavily moderated, tightly knit community that was somewhat defederation-happy towards more easily joined instances because of trolling potential. Okay. Their prerogative, and I get it, but not anything that needs to make me change instances. Cool.

So anyway, there’s been a whole lot of Controversy and Discourse about Lemmy.world and its main moderator recently. There have been defederations. Lemmy.world is one of the big, newbie-appealing instances, and in fact, the enshittification subreddit specifically links to Lemmy.world instead of join-lemmy.org.

So, how would we want to deal with a situation like this for rotating servers? Do we have best practices and guidelines in place for if a controversy emerges about an instance in rotation? Do we have some kinds of rules about moderation in eligible instances so that moderators who are found to be a problem through some process can be replaced to maintain the stability of the instance? What about rules for server sign-up policies? For example, reddthat.com allows sign-ups without email addresses, and I believe it’s the instance I just saw get defederated earlier from a large instance due to that extremely open sign-up policy leading to trolls.

I know the Fediverse does support instance migration in some form, but it honestly seems a bit confusing to me as a beginner, and something I’d rather avoid. Also as a beginner, joining an instance and spending hours trying to get acclimated, only to realize you’ve picked a Bad Instance and need to move, is possibly even more disheartening than going through a long list of instances in the first place, IMO.

I definitely agree that the long list of instances that new folks need to go through is a barrier to entry, just noting an additional consideration for discussion.

I vote we give it to PeerTube, video hosting is so resource intensive but there’s so much potential good content to be liberated from YouTube.

Looks cool! Having some trouble trying to sign in using my Lemmy, however. It keeps saying “Could not connect to your Fediverse server” when I plug in https://sh.itjust.works/. Is this a thing where Bubbles needs to fix something, SJW needs to fix something, or I just need to make a new account on it?

I’ve considered that a few times, and have done the 'phone chatting while gaming" solution, but it gets pretty unwieldy quickly in my experience, sadly.

I have the same question, but a particular problem I am having is the need to chat via text while streaming instead of audio for accessibility purposes. Discord’s game overlay worked okay for this (not great, but usable) on Windows, but doesn’t run at all on Linux, and every alternative I look at seems very voice chat focused. Steam does have chat options within the overlay but doesn’t seem to have good chat history options.

Aw, that’s a way more mundane answer than I was hoping for, but I appreciate you explaining. (And I find myself doubting that it does much to AI scrapers, yes.)

Hang on, you have successfully thorn-baited me. Are you typing them manually or do you have a macro or something swapping them in? For what purpose are you doing this? Give me your villain monologue.

I am a big believer in regulation, and some governments right now are in a position where they can be pressured to take anti-monopoly action against Amazon, which I want very much to see. Being in the U.S. as I am right now, though… There are some state governments I would like to see act (and shout-out to California for doing so here), but I am also brainstorming other nonviolent disruptive action which could be taken, because the federal government right now is actual fascists and Amazon is in league with them.

Flags for Good has a lot of great flags available, if you want to peruse their collection. https://flagsforgood.com/

Frustrating, but I appreciate your answer; thank you.

Why is “(most favored nation status)” in parentheses?

I have often wondered whether targeted internet boycott days would shake up AWS, but I don’t know enough about their billing structure to run the numbers to see how much that would dig into AWS profits + how much of their income is flat subscription fees vs. billing on number of calls and haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet.

The other commenters here are right about Amazon’s initial methods, but I’m also going to highly recommend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification for a detailed explanation of how this happens (including a breakdown on Amazon specifically) and what to do about it.