I try to use Firefox as much as I can since it's the last rendering engine that isn't owned by Apple or Google.
If Firefox doesn't work I've found Vivaldi to be a nice alternative to Chrome/Edge/Brave.
codus
joined 2 years ago
I run my own FreshRSS and it’s been a great experience.
Diablo IV runs great on the Steam Deck and low-end PCs. I’d lean toward PC since you don’t need to pay every month for for online access and it will work on your PC and Deck.
I second this. I used to use Raspberry Pis but one mini PC can do so much more and isn’t much more expensive.
I find this really useful for small instances that don’t have a large communities tab.
Hopefully large instances keep federating with the small, self-hosted ones. I’m not sure how to check but I think really small instances still have the most reach.
I'm tired of not seeing any ads.
Things got much nicer in Mastodon when a user could migrate instances. The problem with all of Server A blocking all of Server B is it's very difficult for a user on Server B to migrate.
I have similar questions. I've noticed it's incredibly easy for me to crash Lemmy and then it is down for a second or two while it reboots. I'm not sure if that's what's causing the couple-second downtimes that I keep seeing on larger instances.
Browsing Lemmy on my small instance has been a pleasure though.
I’d love to see feedback from admins on the scaling problems they are having. Hopefully that scales per server and not per user per server.
The vast majority of servers run Linux and the simplest way to deploy services is with containers. Unix and Windows are much less supported and even running outside containers is fading away.
If you are interested, it may be simpler to spin up a small Linux VM.
It's not the cheapest but I use a DigitalOcean instance to do what you are describing. I've been burned by VPS hosts and I've enjoyed the complete lack of drama or downtime with DigitalOcean.
For port forwarding I'm using Private Internet Access and gluetun. I don't really recommend Private Internet Access and, like you, I'm interested in a better solution. It'd be nice if I could use ProtonVPN's port forwarding but it looks like that only works if you use their app.