Pros:
- Lemmy is my replacement for Reddit, so I’m definitely not abandoning it any time soon
- Regularly updated
- I manage servers for a living, I generally know how to handle stuff like this
- Rules are lax, basically don’t do anything illegal, don’t spam and you won’t be banned from the instance (mods can still ban you on their own discretion from specific communities)
- Hosted in EU
- I don’t care about, nor do I collect, your personal data
- There’s a bot that travels across the Fediverse and subscribes to popular communities, meaning your “All” feed won’t be half-empty and is comparable in content to the largest instances
- The instance has “lemmings” in the name. Yes, that’s a pro.
- If you ask, I might make you a lemming-related, ai-generated profile picture
Cons:
- It has a bus factor of one - if I get hit by a bus, the instance goes down within a month of not paying for hosting
- As an upside, I try my best to not get hit by a bus (so far with 100% success rate)
What is your stance on defederation?
Will you deferate any of the following?
- Instances with lots of illegal stuff
- Instances that are usually blanket banned because of trolls.
- Instances with radical political ideologies.
- Instances you personally feel are amoral, or deserving of being ignored.
- Instances which defederated you first.
Btw, I am simply looking for an honnest answer, I am not trying to imply that you should (or shouldn’t) defederate at all.
edit: added some scenarios
Instances with lots of illegal stuff
Yes, immediate defederate.
Instances that are usually blanket banned because of trolls.
Unless they start harming the instance or my users, then no defederation needed.
Instances with radical political ideologies.
Some of them are illegal in Germany (where the server is hosted), so immediate defederate for those. The others would probably be considered on case-by-case basis. Also depends on what users of my instance want.
Instances you personally feel are amoral, or deserving of being ignored.
If it’s only me, personally, then no defederation.
Instances which defederated you first.
Depends on the instance, really. I don’t like the weird situation where you get stuck in half-defederated status, on the other hand if it meant losing access to a lot of content, it would harm users of my instance. I’d probably reach the other instance admins and try to solve the issue.
Alright, you won me over. Thank you for your hard work!
Subscribed
Great, I’m glad to have you on board!
Joined, this seems promising! I appreciate the defederation from the most harmful instances with an open policy otherwise. Also appreciate the ability to create communities and upload images. Thanks for creating this instance and good luck with growing it!
Thanks, I’m glad to see you on board!
Sounds good. I already have a couple of accounts on other instances and this one seems like a good alternate as well. Thanks!
How do you plan to protect the instance from DDOS attacks?
On the webserver level, don’t really want to use CloudFlare or similar (though I may deploy it temporarily as a quick fix).
