I remember being a small child posting to forums I had no business posting to, asking obnoxious questions about building websites or talking in IRC.

I remember always expecting a response that wasn't very happy with me. You have to start somewhere right?

Been pounding my head against the desk for the last TWO DAYS trying to get everything to work. Then you came along and solved all of my problems and it only took me 10 minutes to set up (mostly due to waiting on DNS to flush!)

THANK YOU SO MUCH for creating this, and PLEASE continue to maintain! I will gib coffees if need be along the way!!

I tried my best to use mastodon as a platform to post to lemmy/kbin but ran into a major problem: nested comments get lost to the ether, and there's no way for you to reply to them using the same account.

Because of this, and basically this alone, I decided to forfeit mastodon all together and opt for a self hosted lemmy instance. I just got it set up and running this evening and so far, I'm not looking back.

Might set up another mastodon instance later, but that's if I start to miss it.

Happy to say I haven't come across them yet

After a looooong day of trial and error and basically learning all of this from scratch, I am happy to say I have finally gotten my own instance up and running!

HUGE credits goes to @[email protected] for creating a script to install Lemmy in just a few simply commands. Definitely reccomend checking out his work if you're brand new to all of this: https://lemmy.world/post/249889

Although I ended up taking the "easy way out", I do want to take a moment to thank all of you for taking the time to comment and contribute time to help me sort out this problem. This is such a warm and welcoming communtiy and I really appreciate it. Cheers from SoCal!

I've seen you pop up twice now in the verse and I had to stop and tell you your username is awesome!!

That looks absolutely amazing. Never seen an amp with quite that shade of wood finish. Great work.

I can ALWAYS jam to this. Thanks for sharing!!!

Thoughts so far? :)

The alphabet is qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, depending on your point of reference :)

This is awesome. Choice is always king! Competition means better products. This is going to be fun.

Ha! Love it when people post troubleshooting in real time. I have both undetermined and english selected, so I don't think that's it.

That sounds to be the most attractive way to fit into the fediverse the way it's set up right now. I really like how kbin has support for microblogging and link aggregation however I find it hard to interoperate between different platforms like you can on lemmy/mastodon.

Once a platform nails all of this, I feel like that will be the thing to use in terms of a "master account to rule them all" type deal. That's what I want anyway >:)

Very well written! Was easy to follow and love the order the events were told. Great job including quotes at the end there too. Makes me wonder why Ruud isn't joining in on the conversation...

I'm another worshipper of ubergeek's script! Literally went from pounding my head against my desk to setting up my brand new instance where basically everything worked!

I'm a simple man with simple taste. Corona Extra!

Get your own instance fam, I was able to crosspost this in beehaw chat no prob :)

Are you talking about, subscribing? Subscribe to all of the communities you want and then sort by subscribed on your home page. If you want to folow a community that isn't on your instance, copy and paste the link to that community in your instance's search box and subscribe to it from there.

Lemon when I have it! Currently have no lemon :(

Yeah, I definitely agree that open communities was/is a mistake. If a server is that large, it should be admin only. They can always run polls to gauge interest before making new communities.

Communities are the biggest problem. One solution would be to make community names more like a federation signature that only allows one community to have that exact name. Example: if lemmy.world has a community called !AITA, and you try to make a community on beehaw with the same !AITA name, it would not allow it and say "sorry that community name has already been registered by another instance".

Of course, the major issue with this idea is that one could defederate with lemmy.world, in this example, and make the community name anyway, then refederate. Who would keep the name? That's why I don't think this solution is ideal, but it's fun to share ideas and something to think about.

Why wait? Can't you just deploy now and upgrade when .18 hits?