Here you can find our guiding principles and perspectives.

Content

Pornography or explicitly NSFW content is not allowed.

All other content is welcome on Lemdit as set out in our Terms and Conditions. This includes different ideas, views and opinions - we are not an echo chamber and you do not have to agree with anybody.

Please treat others with respect and try to be an adult about it.

Communities

You are welcome to start a new community here as long as you do so in good faith. Bad faith examples include:

  • Spamming new communities
  • Starting new communities just to reserve the name

Communities are free to set their own rules and moderate as they see fit, noting that our Terms and Conditions will always apply.

Federation

Defederating from other instances is an absolute last resort and we will only do so under the following circumstances:

  • If their content has the potential to get us into legal trouble
  • If they are acting as an attack vector towards us

We also want to avoid being blocked and will work with any instance admin to try and prevent that from happening.

As a user, you have the ability to block any content you dislike and we encourage you to do so. Please do not ask us to defederate from anyone unless they meet one of the conditions mentioned above.

Notices

I run this server in my free time, using my own resources, out of my own pocket.

At the moment I believe I have sufficient resources to suport a lot of growth and see no reason why I should ever have to shut down the server. I am excited about Lemdit and want to see it grow into something beautiful for many years to come.

However, I also can’t see into the future and there is always the possibility that something unexpected will impact my ability to keep running this instance.

My pledge is to be as transparent as possible with you and do my best to resolve any issue that may arise.

If it can’t be resolved, then I will attempt to provide you with at least 30 days notice of the server shutting down, so that you may have enough time to find another home.

Version history

21 June 2023

  • Initial release

02 July 2023

  • Added the server rules (previously displayed on the home page sidebar)
  • Changed the order of topics

18 July 2023

  • Removed “We will not defederate! We are not currently blocking anyone, nor do we want to be.” since we’ve meanwhile defederated burggit.moe due to legal concerns. Our intent remains unchanged, but this bit is no longer technically correct.

19 July 2023

  • Added Version history for transparency

31 August 2023

  • Removed the section on Rules as it’s covered by the Lemdit Terms and Conditions.
  • Renamed Speech to Content
  • Changed the wording on Content and moved a paragraph under Communities.
  • Changed the cover image to fit the octopus theme.
  • Jack@lemdit.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hello! Greetings from the USA. Thank you for selfhosting an instance with transparency and a no defederation policy. I am a refugee from vlemmy.net, which promised similar virtues and then lost their domain and went silent. I can see from your ethos this is a great instance to be in, as you actually explain how you are hosting this server. That is the true importance of an open source federated platform.

    • delendum@lemdit.comOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hey, welcome to Lemdit! I’m glad you share the same values. I’m also surprised to learn about vlemmy, up until your post I was oblivious that something happened to them. Truly strange and a shame if they’re gone for good, they were the only larger instance that promised similar virtues, as you say. I’ll be curious to see how this develops.

  • Nahvi@lemdit.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Clear, concise, and not out to defederate everyone that you don’t agree with. I like it already.

  • delendum@lemdit.comOPMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Changes made:

    • Added the server rules (previously displayed on the home page sidebar)
    • Changed the order of topics
  • DriveWorld@lemdit.comEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’m curious if there are certain behaviours that should be done sparingly to be a good steward of your hosting - e.g. does it eat up a lot of HDD space if I subscribe to many communities outside of this instance?

    The gif I posted in the other comment is only 1 second and is ~1/10th of an MB, is that content now going to sit on your drive taking up space forever?

    • delendum@lemdit.comOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for your concern!

      Yes anything you post is going to sit on my drive taking up space forever* (*well at least until it gets deleted, but then the image won’t be visible anymore).

      Since we’re self hosted, we’re not as constrained as some of the folks that use cloud services to power their instances (VPS lower tiers usually offer very little in the way of storage space, likely under 100GB, sometimes as little as 25GB).

      Obviously the server doesn’t have unlimitted space, at the moment I have 1TB allocated to the Lemdit VM, but this can be expanded reasonably easy. Right now the DB + Pictures take up ~1.3Gb total so it will take a long time to reach that ceiling at the current rate.

      This may change if we get a large influx of people joining, but we’ll worry about that if and when the time comes. In the meantime please feel free to subscribe to as many communities and post as many images as you want!