The best OS to host on will someday be NixOS, bar none IMO. However, that BEST title will depend heavily on someone sharing a config that leverages the power of NixOS to make it as foolproof and rock-solid as other projects that leverage Nix’s power and reliability.
I’d host an instance if we could would move from the world of Docker being the only game in town toward a more reproducible standard config that uses Nix.
On this thread, I’d also like to ask for screenshotting tools like the ones provided in Apollo. It had a really cool feature set where I could granularity show a specific amount of comment depth, switches for other information, anonymization tools that hide usernames in the screenshots, and more.
I really tried to get Christian to port his code from Apollo to the fediverse but he never seemed interested, unfortunately. I know it’s not fair for us to ask you to clone Apollo, so I’ll just say that no one would be upset if you provided parity with Apollo in whatever way you can.
Ps. I love the sliding up/downvote thing and wish that would also apply to posts so I don’t need to see the up/downvote buttons on there if I don’t want them there.
Agreed. This app is phenomenal already. It has eased my transition to the fediverse to the point where I literally don’t think I could have done this without Memmy. I REALLY want to push some money to the developer for this incredibly selfless contribution to the fediverse.
I think, because I was actively bringing moderators from Reddit to their communities which I cloned onto lemmy. I recruited one of the reddit mods to come to my lemmy.world Cardano community, for example.
Thanks for making the fediverse such an amazing community, everyone. We may have a long way to go before social media without billionaire control is ubiquitous, but I’m confident that this is the right way and it’s just a matter of time before most people realize that.
Anarcho Syndicalist