I'm in the process of getting those working--I've had some issues with the captcha plugin so far.
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Good idea, I just looked however and they've changed the instances page to: https://fedidb.org/software/kbin. So any server that has federated with any other listed is on there, I believe. More Kbin instances out there than I thought!
On Lemmy that is. Kbin I believe replicates everything (unless I set my server up wrong). My server at the moment pulls in around 1.5 GB a day it seems. There is a pull request open on the kbin git repo for a feature to auto-remove old media. Personally I'd like the ability to turn on/off media replication. If an instance wants a complete copy in case of defederation/disconnection somehow, they can opt in and mirror all media that comes in. Most servers should just link to the original image source on the originating instance though.
Very true, if you don't mind losing your post history. A simple way to migrate subscriptions would be great for those folks that make a new account every once in awhile anyway.
It's not, unfortunately. The main issue I see with implementing that is all of your existing posts/comments would still link to your old account on other instances. So either your old instance would have to forward requests for your account to the new instance, or maybe ActivityPub has some way to push that update out and update your account's home across the fediverse. I don't know enough about it unfortunately.
You are welcome to create multiple accounts in any case. Suppose that defeats the purpose of the fediverse though.
Sorry, I should have included that info. You got me thinking, however, and I made the decision to defederate from lemmynsfw.com. I'm not against the communities it hosts, but I don't want to deal with any of the content hosting legal questions that come with it (or at least minimize it where I can). There do appear to be some posts that make it in to the 'random' microblog section that are NSFW, I will look into what I can do for those.
Thanks for reminding me of that! I haven't been around since the old old forum days, but from my time on Minecraft server Enjin forums, I definitely remember arguments going on, outside of the main discussion, and every once in awhile you'd get a 'settle down you two' from someone. The tree format kind of takes the 'one big room, many conversations going on' vibe away.
That's something I want to get into. I want to set up that self hosted software, forget what it's called, but you can integrate with IoT devices just like you can with a mainstream assistant service like Google Home.
What I really want to do is automate my blinds, which are the chain loop type, so I can say "house, open the living room blinds" like they did in Smart House, the Disney channel original movie (or maybe that was Home Alone 4, but we don't talk about that one). I found a little motorized device that integrates with these chain blinds but it was a bit pricey. Of course if I tried to make it with my own Arduino etc it would be an ugly mess.