Title. I’m honestly hoping that I can eventually sunset this instance if everyone enjoys it more. I genuinely enjoy using it.

There’s more variety of content there from a vast sea of instances versus here where it’s only a few cliquey instances controlling who gets to have a voice on the Lemmyverse. This Lemmy instance is much harder to maintain due to the fact that I can’t tell what images get uploaded here, which means anyone can use this as a free image host for illegal shit, and the fact that there’s no user list that I can easily see. Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy due to the fact that it rapidly caches images from scraped URLs and the few remaining instances that we still federate with. The software is downright frustrating to work with, and It feels less rewarding overall putting effort into this instance because it feels like we’re so isolated. I’m going to be honest, when I put this instance back up, I felt a sense of dread when doing so.

Federation is pretty much broken from Lemmy to Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma and their respective forks. So all we can get is this watered down content from the Lemmyverse from the few instances that still haven’t figured out our existence, as well as the ensuing defederation that will surely follow once they’ve found out about us.

So I’d like to get your guys’ opinion on this. Which software do you prefer? Sharkey or Lemmy?

  • @CookieJarObserver
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    523 days ago

    Tbh, give me a good sharkey app and i migrate instantly, the web interface is bugged and counter intuitive for me for some reason :/ I’ve blocked 3/4 of lemmy and the most stuff that gets to me is reddit reposts now. Especially the people from .ml and .World instances are mentally disabled its somehow worse than reddit was. (never going back there however)

    Even my other like 20 accounts went mostly silent even though i have some more time now…

    • @BurgerOPA
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      23 days ago

      Any app that supports the Mastodon API is compatible with Sharkey. So apps like Husky, and Fedilab will work with it. You can also click More > switch ui on the webui for alternate layouts that you can try.

      • @CookieJarObserver
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        223 days ago

        Hey, is it possible to externally link images like here with something like ![]() ? I cant find a way

        • @BurgerOPA
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          223 days ago

          Not sure about that. I’d just right click -> copy image and paste it into your post and link the source.

          • @CookieJarObserver
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            123 days ago

            Seems to not work on mobile (even with mouse, yes i have a mouse for my phone) i think i just need to upload them directly 16mb isn’t bad i don’t think i will exceed that with most images.