Not mine, just cross-posting.
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you know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you’re on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home
What you’re describing is one of the root issues with the current system. It’s the same reason that if your instance goes down, your account and history go with it. I’d love to see an implementation of some sort of account awareness like you said, which could also make it easier to backup history to another instance in the event that your primary goes down.
Oh this would be nice, a standardized way to back up instances so in the case of one going down forever someone else could pick it up and start running.
I know I’m happy to run my instance, I have a great fiber line and a solid infrastructure, but if I get hit by a bus tomorrow I’d want someone else to pick it up and get running
A one-click account transfer to a different instance would be great. However, there can be several “gotchas”, maybe the target instance has lower “permissions”, so that can lead to data loss. Eg: my instance doesn’t allow pictures more than 100 kb, some other instance doesn’t allow creation of communities. So this needs to be carefully throughout.
Seems the easiest solution to that would be to simply have a comparison view. The permissions are setup using some sort of sta.dardized method, yes? Config file, GUI, whatever. Certainly it wouldn’t be hard to simply grab and organize a list of perms from both instances and toss em up side by side. Could even add notes (i.e. if photo storage on Instance A > Instance B notify use “migrating to this instance may cause some larger photos to be removed from your account”).
I’m not a professional programmer (sys admin, so mostly just automation) but there are certainly solutions to this.
oh I was thinking a full instance backup. As an instance admin it’d be nice to backup the whole thing in a standardized way so someone else could grab it and spin it up if I collapsed tomorrow, all the community and users
If the instance is setup as a docker container, then it should be easy. The following should be transferred
- docker-compose file
- zipped up volume directory
At the destination, the docker volume dirs should be unzipped and the new paths should be updated in the docker-compose file. I’m sure someone would have made a script for this by now.
It’s the main reason for mastodon feeling so off. Subbing to a community is something I can deal with, but having a network where you need to follow individuals and the way of doing it is cumbersome sucks. All of these places would benefit greatly if there was a solution.
I’d be interested in something like a lightweight CDN/replication with OAuth2 for logging into other instances. Each instance ‘replicates’ your original account but isn’t itself the master. One can be promoted to master in the event of an outage effectively migrating your account.
Would make for some difficult security considerations given a rogue instance could attempt to hijack authority.
I’m not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue “You are not logged in…” boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.
650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that’s a crazy growth!
p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful
This is great! Feature request… Can you add this functionality to allow people to sub tho these communities easy. It’s what I’m doing in a little javascript that has helped me tremendously!
- Set a homeInstance type variable (ie; https://lemmy.ml) - manually inputted or select from found instances?
- Add a button that links to "homeInstance + “/search/q/!” + community + “@” + site + “/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1"”
- site is remoteinstance.whatever
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Really well done! Much better to browse than browse.feddit.de
Wow. As a newcomer trying to make the leap over from Reddit, that’s really nice
This is great! Anything to make Lemmy adoption simpler and easier for newcomers.
How is the instances list created? I just created my own instance last night and it’s already in that list. Are all federated instances automatically listed?
I think it can be some sort of BFS/DFS method to find all instances.
Yeah, I’d guess the same. I wonder how well that’d scale as the number of instances grows larger and larger…
Very nice
What does the exclamation mark do e.g. in this?
From my understanding, it’s an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.
If you follow the link conventions, [email protected] should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.
Do you know if it is normal that Jerboa crashes when trying to open Lemmy links? I assume on desktop it works correctly, but I haven’t used it as much.
I remember it working properly for me earlier but when I clicked the link in the comment you replied to, jerboa crashed for me too. maybe a regression or just something about this link causing a problem
This is actually awesome. Thanks so much for this! It can definitely help bridge the gap a bit between traditional Rexxit paradigms and Fediverse ones.
Blows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn’t exist a month or two ago
Great resource.
I love this!! Thanks for the link.
Brilliant!
This is extremely useful. I wanted to post a story about China but didn’t know where until this post showed up. With this I get an overview over the instances which have China related Communities and they are sorted by users/posts/comments. This is amazing! Thanks for sharing it!
Oh and I checked it and my single user instance is there too :D
