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  • linuxduck@nerdly.devtoTechnology@beehaw.orgTwitter is now X
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    1 year ago

    I enjoy reading about this change because everytime someone writes something like. Look what x did. My first thought isn’t of Twitter or any social media, it’s: “who’s x?” (As in replacement variable)

    So stupid to rebrand like that. Oh well, never used Twitter anyways



  • I have both a misskey and lemmy instance. For both I used https://servarica.com/ with the cheapest summer deal Flying Fish SSD. It’s like 55 a year. (Or you can pay monthly but I’d highly suggest to save up and pay yearly) (kinda lie, I got a bigger one for lemmy but it’s overkill)

    If you have never installed software before on a VPS (virtual private server) you’re in for a learning ride. If this is the case, be patient, don’t give up.

    Misskey is similar to mastadon. You can also look into calkey which is similar to misskey.

    The hardest part of setting it up was the settings. But since I already know Docker and whatever it was easy going otherwise.

    Though I still don’t have email working… Bleh

    Misskey you add relays. Relays are like lists of instances to join in the fediverse. You then block instances you don’t like.

    Lemmy, you block instances you don’t approve and can set it up so you can white list as well.

    Also important, lemmy doesn’t automatically add other instances. How it works is, any user on your instances has to subscribe to another using the full search key !blah@domain.tld then once ONE user is subscribed, everyone else can search it via keyword.

    Because of that I created a bot that went through all my approved instances and subscribed to all communities in there. It stopped around 3500 subscribed communities. I’ll have to run it again sometime.



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    To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.

    • lemmy instances are not automatically connected
    • at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
    • to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example: !cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up
    • click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
    • ok… Now you have 1 extra community… What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it’s terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.