I personally do not care what people think or tell me about handwriting. I do not enjoy writing things out by hand, I much prefer typing. So that is what I do. Simple as that.
If you watch the video, you would understand that this individual is deleting specific comments, then saw the exact same comments that he deleted return some time later.
I would say this: If it's just you accessing your server and nobody else, self-hosting is fine.
When it comes to giving other people access to your server, no matter how close of friends you may be, I would recommend renting a cheap VPS online. The security benefits are just that much better.
I personally use DigitalOcean and find it to be quite user friendly.
They use what they call "Droplets" to create a VPS. You can have multiple at once and it only charges you for the time you use it, and you can delete add more at any time. They'll just bill you at the end of the month for the usage.
What's nice is that it also has a marketplace, so if you want to spin up a Docker Ubuntu server, or a vanilla Debian server, you can do that with one click.
I agree. I understand it's a lot of data to pull, but even a status bar that can be checked on it's own page would be a help for people to understand why their comments/posts aren't showing up/why the stats are unbalanced.
From what I can tell, and don't quote me on this, this doesn't really matter.
Most of my subs I have on my own instance say subscribe pending but I still get the posts federated. Not sure what the reason is, would love if somebody could chime in.
New and top day are my picks as well for sure. New is for when I'm feeling social and want to dive right into fresh conversations, while Top Day is great for checking out what went on and allows me to pick up converstaions that have already formed.
I definitely recommend not sticking to one, but pick 2 or 3 to switch between, depending on your mood. This way the new posts get bigger and the big posts stay active. We're all in this together, let's keep lemmy living!
I'm really happy to see so many people posting this article. While I was a little annoyed at first, I realized that it's better overall to see this popping up everywhere.
If you haven't read this yet, It's great for understanding the upcoming challenges the Fediverse will face.
This is a common issue that everybody deals with right now on Lemmy, due to federation requests being dropped instead of restarted. Hopefully, future versions of Lemmy will improve this issue.
For now, I find the best way to deal with it is to simply try to not click over to the other instance if you can help it. I just pretend those other comments aren't there.
Sure, you can copy paste direct links in two tabs, but I don't think that's really worth it.
I just visit the top Lemmy instances, sort by local category, and follow the ones I like on each instance. It doesn't matter if I follow 4 different channels called !technology cause I'll just get them all in my feed. I'm following self hosting on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world and I get posts from both. I couldn't care less where it comes from, as long as I'm following I'm good to go.
There are many sites and list of large Lemmy servers right now. Just check out beehaw, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc.
Just curious, what feature are they waiting on?