And that they will federate with them ? (Can’t seem to find it anymore at least)

I wonder how many people we’re gonna lose over this, because I for one, spent time blocking what I wanted to, to curate my feed, and it took time. I already migrated once, I’m not gonna do it again because some people can’t realize how toxic it’s going to be when they federate with us.

I see a lot of people saying they’ll just switch instances but haven’t seen anyone say they’ll just jump ship, am I alone ? Or maybe I’m missing an option that would allow me to transfer all my settings from one instance to another ?

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    623·
    11 months ago

    I see a lot of people saying they’ll just switch instances but haven’t seen anyone say they’ll just jump ship, am I alone ?

    I have switched instances a lot. I don’t like the idea of other people curating my feed.

        • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
          13·
          11 months ago

          I had a spare computer that I installed Linux on a while back, but wasn’t using it for much at the time. If set up like that, all you would pay for is the electricity, which is very low if you’re only running Lemmy, probably only a couple of US dollars a month. You could probably run it on a raspberry pi, tbh.

          Personally, I have solar panels that power my whole house. So it’s free for me.

          • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            11 months ago

            Personally, I have solar panels that power my whole house. So it’s free for me.

            The dream. I want to do this too when I buy my house, but living in northern Scandinavia makes it hard to run off solar during the winter.

            • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              I live relatively close to the equator (Texas), so it’s actually better for me in the winter because I don’t need to run the AC.

                • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
                  3·
                  11 months ago

                  Not sure what you mean, but I just meant that because I use about a quarter of the electricity in the winter while still generating about 90% as much electricity, I end up selling a ton of electricity back to the grid, building up credits that I can use for cloudy days in the spring.

          • jinn@lemmings.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Thanks, I appreciate the insight 😊 you’re setup sounds very well thought out and I respect it 🍻

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        11 months ago

        This is actually detrimental to the network unless you’re hosting a lot of other users. If it’s just you then you’re adding the federation load of an entire server just for your own personal use. Now all your subscriptions are a separate server pull on all the instances you subscribe to. Instead of using an existing instance that is already pulling

        • Howdy@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I did for awhile. For me, it wasnt worth the effort. Hot tip: go ahead and switch to blob storage for pictrs or your hosting fees are gonna get expensive quick.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        so many instances in the fediverse are still federated with Threads

        Threads doesn’t support federation currently, so nobody is federated with Threads at all.