Yes accounts are distributed to each server. Same as communities.

I agree except someone has to host the content and they should get to decide what’s not allowed.

lemmy, kbin and mastodon are federated but you can’t log into each app with an account from another platform. You can post to lemmy from your mastodon server, but not log into beehaw.org.

You’ll need to be able to ssh into the server.

Hosting a single user instance, I’m seeing a few GB of network traffic over the past few days and maybe 10Gb at most needed for the disk.

Ah, I see. thanks

Ah, great thanks. That sounds much smaller in file size than mirroring all embedded content.

I was also under the impression that instances don’t cache remote images, but I’m seeing a lot of cached images under volumes/pictrs/files.

I got similar errors when I was running out of disk space. Maybe not the same problem you had but just mentioning

A lemmy instance will only show communities that someone’s has previously searched using the full url. You can find a list of all available instances here: http://browse.feddit.de/

For others: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/9/23755640/reddit-api-changes-apps-apollo-shut-down-ama-spez-steve-huffman

I think that would be possible to do to help with searching for new communities. Although for now I’m not sure there’s too much difference between it existing on each instance vs on https://browse.feddit.de/. Other than ease of use of staying on one website I guess.

Thanks for the feedback! I think if your main goal is to just search for communities by name, then it’s best to use: https://browse.feddit.de/.

I find lemmy.directory the most helpful in browsing all posts across the lemmyverse in a single feed (via the “All” filter).

Searching for new communities may be able to be made more universal, but automatically pulling in those feeds (subscribing) is probably not a good general idea. See here for more info on that: https://lemmy.ml/comment/476925

If nobody from your instance is already subscribed, then you can only search for the community by the full url. I wrote a bit more about this here: https://lemmy.directory/post/34207

When first subscribing to a new instance, a handful of posts get backfill synced. I think it would make sense to also backfill the comments for those posts.

Thanks for this insightful post. I agree that the fediverse feels different and that’s ok. It’s exciting to get the chance to build something new and be a part of it starting.

Can I only create a community on the instance I joined, or can I also create a community elsewhere?

You can only create a community on the instance you have an account on, but people from other instances will still be able to follow and post to it.

You might be able to save the website as a progressive web app to your home screen?