Hello everyone, I want to answer a couple of frequently asked questions (and some made up frequently asked questions). Also you can ask questions in the comments.

How did you come up with the server name? A couple of weeks ago I nerd sniped this domain from someone who is also on this instance and did nothing with it until the whole reddit thing happened and I found lemmy. I noticed user names have the instance domain behind them. I suddenly knew what I had to do.

How much does the domain cost? 19$ a year.

How much does the server cost? Currently it’s a 7$ a month digital ocean droplet. How is the performance? Should we upgrade? Didn’t expect to have over 100 Members already. I upgraded to a 24$ a month droplet. To experiement if some issues go away with it.

Where is the server located? Currently in Frankfurt, Germany.

What distro does the server use? Ubuntu 22.10

Who has access do the server and database? Currently only me.

Can you edit the database? Yes, but maybe it would lead to unexpected bugs. I don’t know. I will not do it unless I have to.

Will you edit comments? No.

**Will you charge 3rd party apps? ** No.

Is it complicated to host your own instance? Not at all. The lemmy devs provide an easy to use ansible script. I never used ansible before and now I want to use it for more stuff. You should have some experience with Linux and hosting. But don’t be afraid if you have no experience to host your instance. You can probably Google and ask yourself though the setup.

How can I support the server? You can support the server by being active in the community. You can post, create communities, comment and engage. While I also like to lurk a lot it’s important to create content. It’s the most valuable thing (without content nobody will visit sites like reddit). Also it probably doesn’t hurt to promote the server a bit. Regarding Server cost if the server cost doesn’t increase substantially I don’t need any financial support. I will try keep the instance alive as long as people are using it.

Should I create my own community? Yes (as long as it is legal and doesn’t harm other people)

Does my community have to be related to Arch Linux? No, I think it’s even better if it’s not related. Having some random community with @iusearchlinux.fyi at the end seems amusing to me.

I don’t see rules. Is everything allowed? Nope if we see something that is not okay we will not hesitate to ban someone or remove content. Everyone including the admins and mods should strive for keeping this a nice place for everyone. Everyone should feel welcome. If you argue with someone try to interpret what the person said in the most charitable way. In short try to make a positive impact in this community. We enabled that everyone can see the mod logs with the names of the mod for transparency. If you don’t like how we moderate you can write us or make a post but please keep in mind we cannot make everyone happy and if you want have different moderation you can always create an account on a different instance. We have banned in total only one person and have not blocked a single other instance. We are not on the search to find small things we can use as excuse to ban anyone we don’t like but we will act on reports. Please use the report button it’s better to report someone just in case. We will not blindly ban someone. My other 2 Admins are great people and I trust them 100 percent to have a good judgement.

What’s your favorite editor? neovim with lazyvim

What’s your Terminal? Wezterm

What’s your desktop environment? AwesomeWM

What’s your favorite programming language? Rust (but I am not very productive with it)

Sorry for my bad english.

EDIT: How can I financially support the server? You can buy me a coffee on ko-fi

  • Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    will you be defederating with other instances regarding their views on what content is acceptable?
    this could be due to differences in political views or because you simply don’t like the sort of content being posted there with consent of the admins.

    I’m mainly asking because I believe that admins should force their views on on the users unless there are valid real world concerns and I’m not really expecting you to defederate with other instances; but it would be a great thing to know for people who are going to be joining here.

    note

    do note that this is separate from enforcing your own instance’s rules here.

      • Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Unless the other instances violate laws or show that their purpose is to be problematic towards people, there should be no need to defederate.
        […]
        I’m trying my hardest to take a hands-off approach regarding rule enforcement and let this community be great

        Nice, this was sort of what I was hoping for, I’ve seen quite a few instances across the fediverse deferederating with others over things that aren’t even that problematic.

        This is our (admins, users, people who decide to join later, lurkers, everyone) chance to create a decent community where being challenged on decisions means not dismissing what’s said and giving an earnest amount of time to see where the community is coming from.

        This will definitely be the hardest part for most people, not that I expect the people here to be completely closed to discussion and opinion; but holding a proper discussion on reddit or other social media isn’t something you can just do as most are simply not open to a view different from their own or act rashly before thinking about the other side.

        I have strong opinions as I’m sure everyone here does, but I will put a lot of it aside to be fairer to people

        My opinions are mine to hold and voice, but what they are are simply not relevant when it comes to what other people should be able to say. I strongly believe in free speech (not the Elon Musk kind); but I also believe that you are wholly responsible for what you say and where. Giving people a platform to voice these opinions freely is something I will support even if these opinions do not align with mine, we are still in an era where free speech is a privilege for us who have it and restricting it based on personal views will just create an echo chamber that ends up being blocked by most other instances.

        I know it was lengthy, but I wanted to be extremely clear on my personal stance.

        Don’t worry about the length, I never expected this to have a short cut and dry answer and I do feel like it is something that is going to be important once this instance starts becoming host to a larger community.

  • narshee@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Because of certain actions I would add if any instance has defederated your instance. Idk if you can see this somewhere, but it would be interesting for, well everyone here. I doubt that has happened, but it might be important to mention in the future

  • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    First of all, we appreciate you creating this instance. I had to join when I saw it. Lol. I know it’s not a burden financially for you rn, but do let us know once the costs rise. I think it’s important as users to do our part to keep instances open as opposed to letting the owner shoulder everything.

    Will you edit comments? No.

    Will you charge 3rd party apps? No.

    LMAO

    Also, I’m not a native English speaker but your English is great. I understood it perfectly. (Also haven’t tried your terminal or editor since i use the defaults, but i’ll definitely check them out) 👍

  • myrrh@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    New to Lemmy here, and I’m under the impression that an instance isn’t automatically federated with other instances. If I’m not mistaken then, is there any way to request that we connect with another instance?

    edit: spelling

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been following some instances on pawb.social but I’m not sure if they’re federating properly on our end. I don’t get any comments on [email protected] but my comments federate to them. Pawb.social aren’t defederating iusearchlinux.fyi either.

    I also notice when checking out new communities outside of this site, the hot feed pops up first and I have to refresh to get the proper community feed.

    Do I just have to wait for federation to kick in?

    • Sören@iusearchlinux.fyiOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I think sadly new comments are only federated after someone from our instance subscribed. You can manually add comments via the search. I hope this gets fixed soon.

  • reddit_sux@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Why cant I see comments in posts from other lemmy instances, or login to other instances using the login details from this instance

  • WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Does digital ocean have network egress limits?

    About how much space does each user take up?

    Do you have a patreon or something if hosting starts to get expensive?

    • Sören@iusearchlinux.fyiOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago
      1. The limit is currently 4tb. 2. Currently its around 20mb per user. 3. I added a ko-fi link to the post.