I’m not sure about the software always breaking, I haven’t had this issue. I will say though this most recent update (19.4) has me frustrated, mainly because the instructions are clear as mud (especially pictrs 0.5). Once I get it figured out I’ll have to post a real upgrade doc instead of what is currently available. I have never seen the lemmy matrix as busy as it is now with upgrade questions and puzzled admins.

Ok

This is where the nature of federation really shines. .ml is one of the biggest lemmy communities? It doesn’t have to be. In fact as lemmy is still so new and various situations continue to shake out I would wager that in a few years time the top current communities will be replaced. And later on those will be replaced. Censorship resistance is built into ActivityPub by virtue of its decentralization.

When you say you want more, what do you mean?

Lemmy is great in Firefox mobile. It’s how I use the site. The only reason I keep a Lemmy app installed is for quick shares.

It notes that Bluesky users will be able to participate in the global conversation, instead of the one dictated by the community they join, as aspects of how your experience differs from others is in your control thanks to other features, like custom feeds and composable moderation. The latter means moderation is not tied to your server. While server operators can set rules around the content they host, communities can use blocklists and soon, independent moderation services, to introduce additional layers of moderation. That means there’s not as much pressure on server operaters to block other servers (defederate) because of the content they host, since users will have their own tools to manage their moderation preferences.

This is a nice bit of tech.

I don’t think I would ever be in favor of activity that leads to further centralization. I don’t disagree that fragmentation can make things somewhat confusing for new users, but there are some advantages as well. I like to post to smaller communities for the most part rather than the larger ml and world domains. The responses are more focused on the topic at hand, the communities are usually less hostile and hive-minded, and having all discussions on a just a few big servers leads to a the problem of having all of your eggs in one basket (ie. discussions and accounts disappearing when these servers can’t maintain server costs, the admins move on to other projects, or just poor maintenance practices.) To me it is worth the effort to cross-post and seek out other communities to find interesting content.

If you’re on 18.5 or under, I wouldn’t recommend upgrading anyway as federation is currently broken on 19.0, 19.1

I’m glad I’m not the only one then. 19.1 here

This is what happened with Google and XMPP

I would highly suggest a slight upgrade to the n305 which is an actual i series chip with double the cores of the n100 but still less than 10w power usage.

There is none, except for server mirrors. But most admins don’t bother with that. The ultimate solution is to host your own instance. You can do that because the source is available.

But what’s the solution to investors dumping reddit, Elon running X into the ground, etc? Not only is there not one, but Reddit hasn’t been open source for years, and the only thing that’s been opened with X is its recommendation algorithm.