Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?

Allthough, as far as my understanding of how federation works is that I would need to manually subscribe to every community on every instance that I’m interested in as federation only syncs communities that have at least one subscriber on the hosting instance, correct?

Or is there a way to subscribe to EVERYTHING?

Other than that is there any obvious downside to doing that?

      • TooL@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Lol that’s a big yikes. Glad I never managed to make an account over at beehaw.

        • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          It’s just temporary until mod tools mature enough to deal with the trolls that were using lemmy.world’s open registration and automated registration approval to quickly evade bans and troll beehaw.

  • Spzi@lemmy.click
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    1 year ago

    There is one instance dedicated to mimicking /r/all: https://lemmy.directory/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/New/page/1

    Check it out. Maybe it partially does what you want, maybe you can learn from them how to subscribe to everything.

    would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans?

    I can imagine many people want a fully federated instance, myself included. Maybe I did not understand the value of defederation, but I think I can decide for myself to what communities I subscribe, or not.

    So I do see value in an instance dedicated to not defederating anything, ever. Maybe it even already exists (please let me know). I tried to suggest you can share the instance with others, just make the policy perfectly clear.

    • NotSteve_@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Beehaw is defederating from sh.itjustwor.ks and Lemmy.world.Personally I think it’s silly to be upset over it considering defederation is one of the selling points of Lemmy.

      Beehaw is just going for a more curated experience which I think is completely fine. I’m sure once they have more moderators they’ll consider refederating anyway.

      • polygon@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        It’s definitely an interesting selling point. I’ve always said you have to take the good with the bad on social media, but having independent instances who can curate things a bit means you don’t actually have to take the bad if you don’t want. Even though the Beehaw admin themselves said this is essentially a nuke and not how they’d preferred to have handled it (Lemmy doesn’t have the tools just yet to do it any other way) it’s still interesting and unique in social media.

        Beehaw is creating an identity for themselves and sticking to it, rather than being a general instance. Some people will love that, some will hate it. But ultimately it’s whats going to make Beehaw a unique place to be for those who want it without taking anything away from those who don’t. This is all still early stages for Lemmy and there are growing pains for sure, but this sort of thing, to me at least, shows the possibilities of a Federated network.

  • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I believe an instance can whitelist which would block all other instances and only allow ones it approves. I don’t know of one that does that yet, but I could see beehaw doing that in the future—in which case, having a solo instance would not help.

  • Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been thinking the same. Going to look up some guides later on to see how much of a hassle it would be.

    I think when I looked at doing it with Mastodon, the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze for a single user (this was months ago so might be different now) but Lemmy might be better suited.