MadCybertist

If they ever drop the track pads I’m out. It’s the only reason I got the Steam Deck as I play a lot of WoW on it and they are basically required. Plus I tinker in Linux a ton too and also they are super necessary.

I second this. I prefer their deluge container but really like how binhex has things set up.

Deluge in a docker container. I run a media server and use the *arr apps to control things and deluge for the torrent app. I have it all behind a VPN. If the VPN goes down the entire network fails and is unable to connect any other way…. I do not trust a Killswitch and never would.

At least tell us what you made up lol

They’re dead.

This depends. You can be smart about it. Running your own servers, including your own NVRs for video storage. Have dedicated VLANs. Firewalls. Etc. it’s not that bad.

Granted I work in automation and robotics and now networking so I’d say I’m for sure a giant add nerd. For a normal user it can be hard to stay safe.

Or you may simply not really have a need. That’s totally fine.

I’m disabled, so being able to do lights and thermostats and appliances with my iPad or phone is great for me. Having things turn on or off based on motion detection or sunset/rise really helps. I can unlock my door or open my garage for guests without having to get up.

I have a smart home. I run Unraid OS on my server and among a ton of dockers, I run my own VM with home assistant. Been doing my own DNS, network wide ad blocking, media server, home automation stuff for years now. Always will to help answer any questions.

I’m also disabled so the smart home really helps me.

Not a fan of the defederation. I’m actually displeased they would shout out an instance that will give new users a BAD experience of what the fediverse is.

I think Hover is the best. Not the cheapest though. If you want cheap and good, go Cloudflare.

Cool to see. I’m posting from kbin - super neat to see your Steam deck content from here.

So you’re angry that you have to click your screen 2x and waste 9 seconds…. Instead you’d prefer every single new user to see no content at all?

Seems like an odd take.

how do you follow a topic (rather than a person), reddit-style?

• I’m on kbin so it’s a little different, but you should be able to go to the communities page and search. You’ll see all communities from all federated communities. You just click on subscribe similar to Reddit.

what does all the talk on instances federating and defederating mean?

• Federated = connected and sharing a copy of posts. Defederated means one of the two instances has stopped that sharing ability with the other.

is it normal or expected that you join multiple instances to get your content? I’m juggling a few, because I can’t work out how to follow topics.

• Nope. Really no need to as long as you’re on an instance that’s federated. For example though, BeeHaw has defederated Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works so if you’re on beehaw you won’t see any of that content. If you’re on one of the other 2 you won’t get the full experience.

And if you do have different user accounts across instances, is there a way to link your own user profile between them? To give others a single view, or to make it easier to juggle all my instances?
I’ve heard it’s technically possible to follow content on Lemmy from Mastodon, for example. Is that a good way to consume content from single app?

• Mastodon is a bit different from Lemmy. It’s hard to read both from one app. Kbin is working on that issue by allowing microblogs. Still not perfect yet.

It’s about 37k on kbin.social.

Which kbin instance?

I know BeeHaw defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

I’m unaware of it defederating kbin instance. I do know for a fact it wasn’t kbin.social.

Saying hi from kbin lol

No. Syncing never goes into the past. It only starts at present and moves forward.

Well beehaw defederated Lemmy.world so you won’t see that stuff. Well they won’t see yours anyways so you won’t get to interact with them.

Except BeeHaw as defederated lemmy.world - which is a shame. Step in the wrong direction IMO. That’s going to be a huge problem because now if you’re a BeeHaw member you no longer see anything lemmy.world related - you’re suddenly, overnight, cut off from thousands of people and posts.

Having these larger instances owned by 1 person like they all are now is a shame, but unavoidable at the beginning I suppose. One of them gets bitter and you have thousands defederated. I guess over time as things splinter up more it may get better.

I’ll likely just spin up my own instance so I can federate with everyone and never be dropped (at least from my side).

They don’t like the open registration process and they feel there was too many bad actors on that server, so they defederated from them.