Would there be any benifit to host another instance? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Mirriad@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?

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[-] PriorProject@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Of the 3 subscription bootstrappers listed in this thread, lemmony is by far the worst of them because it subscribes to EVERYTHING by default.

Lcs forces you to pick a number of communities to subscribe to, and the other one has default threshold heuristics that pick a limited number of active communities. Lemmony signs you up for the entire firehose of the threadiverse which both makes instances using it pretty bad fediverse citizens in terms of generating a 50x-100x the federation load of a "normal" single-user instance that subs maybe a hundred communities... and also exposes novice single-user instance owners to legal liability by subbing all the small under-moderated communities full of questionably illegal stuff.

I would recommend one of the better designed tools, and to review the resulting subscription list manually to ensure you're not signing up for some sketchy stuff.

[-] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I let it run by night and saw what I did today. You are totally right, I will probably need to clean up a few things.

[-] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not experienced at cleanup, and I don't think lemmony offers an undo. But if you used an account other than your primary... I think deleting that account will nuke its subs and you can start over. If I'm wrong, this may leave a bunch of orphaned subs with no user and no way to write an api-script to unsub.

In either case, I do recommend doing your automated subs on a different account and viewing them in all rather than directly subbing your main account to all that junk. It definitely give you more options for cleanup.

[-] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[-] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome feature. It's great to see you thoughtfully trying to balance the community discovery problem with the federation overhead caused by mass subscription.

While I continue to favor and recommend manual subscription, I've bookmarked lsb and lcs to recommend to folks looking for automated approaches. I think they're looking pretty good right now and seeing you proactively address feedback gives me faith that they'll get even better.