Yes accounts are distributed to each server. Same as communities.

I agree except someone has to host the content and they should get to decide what’s not allowed.

lemmy, kbin and mastodon are federated but you can’t log into each app with an account from another platform. You can post to lemmy from your mastodon server, but not log into beehaw.org.

You’ll need to be able to ssh into the server.

Hosting a single user instance, I’m seeing a few GB of network traffic over the past few days and maybe 10Gb at most needed for the disk.

Ah, I see. thanks

I was also under the impression that instances don’t cache remote images, but I’m seeing a lot of cached images under volumes/pictrs/files.

The lemmy ui is removing websockets in the next update replacing it with a REST API. I suspect that will stop any new posts from popping to the top after load.

People seem to not want new posts and comments moving things around on their page anyway.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2841

I got similar errors when I was running out of disk space. Maybe not the same problem you had but just mentioning

A lemmy instance will only show communities that someone’s has previously searched using the full url. You can find a list of all available instances here: http://browse.feddit.de/

For others: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/9/23755640/reddit-api-changes-apps-apollo-shut-down-ama-spez-steve-huffman

Thanks for this insightful post. I agree that the fediverse feels different and that’s ok. It’s exciting to get the chance to build something new and be a part of it starting.

I think that’s right. A request for deletion gets made and it’s up to each server to decide if they will honor it.