I second this request. Your theme looks great and I’d love to include it in my instance.

They look great! Italian here, you get a pass. Be proud. I don’t browse this community THAT often but this is the first really appealing dish I’ve seen in here.

1. I’d say the suggested practice is going with smaller instances (i.e. anything that isn’t lemmy.ml or even worse lemmy.world). But sure, if you want to spin up a custom instance that would be even better. You’d have the advantage of being able to customize your experience a lot more (changing themes, editing the code to fix stuff you don’t like, managing your own emojis…)

2. I’d say around 10€ a month. My instance pays around that (maybe a little more, can’t remember) and we have over 100 users. It’s really not that expensive.

3. You become a mega janny. You have to draft server wide rules, appoint mods and make sure they don’t screw up by letting banned content through. Depending on your country’s laws and where your instance is hosted, you might risk hosting illegal stuff for which you as an admin would be liable.

Others have already replied to 4. and 5. so I’m not going to make this wall of text any longer.

Ansible guide. I didn’t follow this one myself but the guy who set up my instance said it was pretty easy
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

…or join a smaller instance.

Same, since I updated my instance to 0.18 Jerboa doesn’t work and instantly crashes.

Usually I’m not too fond of metalcore, I’m more of a metal guy, but damn these guys are great.

Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.

Agreed. Sh.itjust.works has plenty of interesting communities, pressing the big red button for just one name seems a bit overkill.

Couldn’t the protocol be updated to be more compliant with the right to be forgotten? Something like, when a user deletes a comment it gets deleted from the DB of every federated instance. Sure enough, admins might have made backups and that would theoretically go against the GDPR but still… you can only apply these laws to a certain extent. It’s the same as you posting a picture on Facebook, me downloading it and you deleting it afterwards. Even if you were to make a GDPR request to Meta you still couldn’t get the picture on my PC. But that’s not Meta’s fault, they can’t do much about that.

If I understand correctly the way the protocol works, when you federate to a community you are instructing your instance’s server (in this case sh.itjust.works) to start copying every post and comment that is posted on the target community. This would in turn mean that, if you federate with an NSFW community, the sh.itjust.works admin would start copying NSFW posts to his server, with all the legal repercussions of this.

Of course, if this was actually a problem for the admins they’d have turned off federation / put federation on allow list / would have defederated from a bunch of NSFW instances. Considering none of these are the case, I’d say you can chill and just subscribe to whatever community interests you.

Hi, welcome on board from one refugee to another. Yeah federations are indeed a bit confusing to wrap your head around. I like to think I’ve figured it out, but who knows…

1. Not sure I understood what you mean. Can’t you just subscribe to the communities you care about? It’d be like joining a subreddit.
2. Yes.
3. Not sure if there are any better sites for this, personally I use https://browse.feddit.de/
4. It should be pretty lightweight, though if you don’t have lots of RAM your user experience might be hurt a bit. I’ll relay this to the guy who’s hosting my instance, I’m not sure which config he’s rocking. But personally mine feels overloaded at times, so whatever I’ve got you might want a little more than that. Anyway, if you like the idea of owning the metal that’s fine but know that you can easily host a decently sized lemmy on a VPS for less than $10.
5. Not that I know of, each instance has its own database where everything is contained. Posts and comments are synced among instrances using ActivityPub but I believe accounts only live on one server. In order to do that you’d need to manually access the database on both instances.