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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, back to meme school for you

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the format is that she repeats the second panel on the fourth panel, with more question marks and concern. This version is almost like explaining the joke here.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a community for gently abused memes that I can post this to?

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheBeanDream@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

He said gently bro

[–] EarlTurlet@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

This is my favorite Star Trek episode, too. Ruined.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't selfhosted started by the same dude that started lemmy.world? Meaning it really is selfhosted? πŸ€”

[–] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Stop pointing shit out and grab your bean fork, we're rioting!

[–] ThatGuyFromWork@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Actually an instance dedicated to self hosted stuff would be great. We could have communities specifically for things like home lab, media hosting (Plex, Jellyfin, Emby), unRAID, TrueNAS, shit posting, hardware discussions, general conversations, etc.

This would reduce the strain on lemmy.world and give us all a dedicated home for more niche topics without posts getting buried

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering how overloaded lemmy.world is right now, a pi in someone's basement would be better, and besides, centralization is bad. Federation is what prevents lemmy from becoming the next Twitter.

[–] Psilves1@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Literally just left lemmy.world because of how brutally slow it's been

[–] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I laughed but I dunno about you guys but I don't publicly self host anything. If you can't auth via ssh or VPN then you're not accessing a damn thing from my home network. I've got multiple routers that I could set up some isolation with but it's just too close to home.

[–] muffin@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't get hacked if all your services are down because you can't get those cocksuckingmothershitbitchingassbastard routing tables right 🀯

[–] LessQuit@feddit.nu 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to self-host but don't know how to code etc so not sure where to even start

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Never self-hosted Lemmy, but have self-hosted other things in the past. While you don't necessarily need to code, you need a fair amount of code-adjacent skills. If you ever want to get into self-hosting, you should have a look into (at least):

  • the linux command line
  • ssh
  • how ports work
  • VPS providers
  • DNS registrars
  • nginx
  • docker (while you don't need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)
[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

docker (while you don't need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)

...until you have a single extra space character hiding 20 lines into your compose file and the whole thing falls over the next time you try to bring the containers up.

Lint your code and configs every time!

[–] Opeth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Xml wasn't great but yaml is 2 steps backwards

Edit: tfw 3months ago

[–] SomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In terms of an optimal load spread, it's best if the lemmiverse is split into multiple equally sized instances. If you use an instance just for yourself, it doesn't actually decrease the load on the main servers in any way. The only thing you get is a guarantee that your instance won't suddenly go down.

[–] Toine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Suddenly going down seems to be a constant in my self hosted services though...

[–] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m hosting one right now. Lemmyunchained.net

But in will have to Limit Users at some point.

I dont Think people properly understand they can be on any server. And join multiple communities. And it all Show up in their Feed. They don’t Need to worry about β€œwhich community has the Most Users”

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In practice right now it can be a bit schetchy tbh. Finding and subscribing to them is flakey and searching can be a bit hit and miss too.

When it does all work both smoothly and seemlessly then we'll be golden.

[–] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Because there’s no centralised list of communities, searching is extremely difficult. Or if not, very time consuming. Following every iteration of every node.

I’m not sure how that can be overcome.

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