• sab@kbin.social
            25·
            1 year ago

            Since the URL is pretty vital for federation (users from federated instances would follow for example !main@pigedove-lemmy-clone-u9568.vm.elestio.app in order to join a community), it’s probably worth getting the domain up and running before you start federating anyway. Even though it’s a frustrating wait for sure!

            I think there’s potential for a bird instance - I’ve heard rumours the birdwatching community is pretty active over at Mastodon.

              • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
                5·
                1 year ago

                FYI the instance agnostic links are:

                • !community@instance
                • /c/community@instance
                • /u/user@instance

                These are supposed to generate an instance agnostic link regardless of who clicks it. That means they’ll go to their instance’s version of your page, which means they can subscribe or whatever with their logged in account. Rather than going to an entirely different instance, then having to manually search for it in their own instance. However, the caveat is that not all apps have adopted these links - they work on the website, but not all of them work in Jerboa, for example.

                There’s also @user@instance, this doesn’t automatically make a link but if you start typing it (on the website) then you’ll get a popup window with usernames. When you select this you’ll generate the code [@user@their_instance](https://their_instance/u/user). This links to the user’s instance, not the viewer’s instance, but it also sends a mention to the user. So if you reply to another user and mention them, they’ll get a notification. I think you can also fiddle with the link text with like [link text](https://their_instance/u/user) and it should still send a mention, but haven’t tested it.

          • dirtypirate@kbin.social
            8·
            1 year ago

            yeah that URL is terrible, I use ionos in germany for a lot of domain name reg, maybe they will suit your needs too.

            I’m self hosting a mastodon instance (my 1st ruby on rails and wholy fucking shit is that bloated compared to django) and it took a while for my instance to get into the federation, now I see all kinds of fun stuff and have total control

            I’ve run into some issues with federation posts filling the /media directory but it seems to have been sorted out now.

            if you have questions DM me and I might be able to help, I’m writing code for the next 4 hours and really want to do ANYTHING else…

          • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I’m just completely unable to parse it. Also searching for the URL doesn’t come up with anything, and it isn’t yet in the lemmyverse.net or anywhere else. Elestio is a developer platform, you’re running a virtual machine, and it’s a clone of something else. All of that leaves me a little wary.

            Frankly though I think users should be far more wary of the instance they use. The fact is, you’re placing your faith entirely in the instance admin - just because it says Lemmy v0.18.4 doesn’t mean that’s actually what the site is running. I went for lemm.ee in the end because the admin really seemed to know his stuff.

            • Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.worldOP
              33·
              1 year ago
              1. VM is just the best way for me to run it as I’m not ultra tech savy
              2. It is running that lemmy version, if you don’t want to believe it, I’m fine with that.
              3. The clone is because the first version of pigedove didn’t work.
              4. It is less then a day old, obviously not enough time to get on there.
              5. Elestio is just the easiest and best way to run it for me aswell.
              6. I truly do appologise for parse issues, I am working on it, might be a day or two.
                I appologise for the issues, I’m brand new to a lot of this and just want to run a small instance for some people to chill and talk about birds, ect.
  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I think you should keep it to yourself. Far better to have complete control over it than have other people pulling child porn into your instance or whatever.