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With the loss of lemmy.fmhy.ml I decided I would add a Lemmy instance to my virtual server rack. This is a test send as much as anything.

First thoughts... The documentation and the example configs could possibly be a bit clearer. Not sure how I would reword them though. Also, there has got to be a better way for a smaller instance to begin seeing communities than browsing lemmyverse.net and then manually searching for the communities from your new instance.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can use https://lemmy.world/c/lsbsupport to populate your server! Do notice, database size will grow, as per expected.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Following that link directly is giving me a server error, and it doesn't bring anything except up in search except your comment. Is there a particular way I'm supposed to use it?

[–] bdonvr 2 points 1 year ago

The proper way to link is [email protected]

Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the link seems dead. Don't know what the other guy was suggesting but I used lemmony, which works quite well despite being a bit on the clunky side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This link and the associated community appear dead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TIL .sh is a valid TLD

seems a dangerous idea, even worse than .zip (I clicked on your title and i went to visit http://hello-world.sh)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoops! I did the title as a joke. I wonder what I goofed that caused it to become a link.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Simply my client assumed that's an URL because it ended with a valid TLD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It has interesting uses but I agree it’s more than a teeny bit dangerous. https://getamp.sh/ uses it to simplify the install command.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, I can confirm you made it all the way across the fediverse divide into my kbin instance fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yea!!! It's working! I can see this post from lemmy.world's public feed. That was quick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There’s quite a few subscriber bots you can run to populate your server with minimal effort.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world here! Looks like things are working okay

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What happened to lemmy.fmhy.ml?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their domain was killed by Mali government because they decided giving free .ml was a mistake . Lemmy.ml is in danger too or any .ml instance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well. Shit.

Hope the .world is safe for now. Since you know.. It's the world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

only two-letter tlds are controlled by specific countries. i forget who owns the specific tld for .world but i doubt they can pull this trick, there's a lot of competition there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

icannwiki.org says a company called Identity Digital owns a number of TLDs, including .world

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Domain issues due to drama with the .ml namespace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hfv05qcs5xf7irr

This is a post from their admin team. In short, the Mali government has taken back their domain space. Right now, for me, FMHY is kinda up, but mostly down. Nothing really works, but I can occasionally see my feed (up to date, too), and if I click on any links I get a timed out error.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I used this bot to get some subscriptions on my instance: https://github.com/lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You've reached lemmy.one!

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