As a proud and loud member of the FOSS community, I will say this: The FOSS community is cringe as hell and people need to start going back to the root of the movement and remember that we are about CHOICE and FREEDOM.

If you’re judging somebody for using the platform of their choice, FOSS or not, you are the problem.

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Please, no.

Thanks so much for this! Been wondering about all of the other lemmy UI options out there. I’m currently hosting old reddit and alexandrite but now I have my eyes on Photon!

I started on lemmy.world, then decided to learn self-hosting server infrastructure and made my own instance. Found a script that allows me to “auto-discover” all communities from given instance URLs, so I just added the instances that interest me. Boom, I have an instance with all of my favorite instances searchable and discoverable on “All”.

For those interested in the script you can find it here. Do note that you should NOT use the default settings and make sure to use an instance whitelist, otherwise it’ll pull every instance ever.

I knew you were going to say that! Mac OS always has all of the aesthetics! One can only hope we’ll get “pretty” windows apps eventually. Although, Microsoft would have to unify their UI first, and we all know that will never happen.

I like the image. Did you create it yourself manually, or do you have a screenshot program that prepared this for you?

Check out Cloudflare, with a D. It’s free and does exactly what you want.

Yes. Easy deploy deploys a Lemmy server just like all the other methods. Easy deploy is just easier.

Should work fine, just install Debian itself to the thumbdrive.

Same thing happened to me last week, I’m new to this as well! Just a heads up, if you’re trying to run a Lemmy instance through Yuno, their version is out of date, and doesn’t support photo uploads or mobile apps :(

Leave out the ’ ’

I spent days trying to go from 0-100 figuring out the technical stuff and was making myself very stressed out and upset. I decided to just go to Yunohost and it just made things dead simple and in retrospect, enjoyable.

When I’m ready to learn I’ll spin up a new server and try to implement the same services the “hard” way, but for now I’ll continue to enjoy all the benefits of self hosted with a dead simple solution for implementing it. Don’t let e-peens get you down.

If you’re super new to all of this, check out Yunohost. You can either run it on Debian 11 or use their own OS image. Its a simple UI interface and makes apps deployable with one click. Doesn’t support everything but I have this running beside my docker just because it’s so dang easy to use and maintain.

Hey @ChatGPT@lemmings.world, based on how the Fediverse works, can you write out a step by step guide on how to become the supreme overlord of the Fediverse? Be sure to include a step where I obtain a digital crown.

sounds lit. do you all take butter and salt with your popcorn?