Post AWK0qO2n754n9GfSa0 by lmorchard@hackers.town
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 (DIR) Post #AWK0qO2n754n9GfSa0 by lmorchard@hackers.town
       2023-06-01T18:28:33Z
       
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       With the fuckery around Reddit APIs, I'm peeking in at Lemmy again.I wonder if it would be worthwhile setting up my own instance to use as sort of a personal pinboard alternative for link sharing and also to host an account from which I can comment on other instances' links?
       
 (DIR) Post #AWK0qOwRm9azvshuKW by lmorchard@hackers.town
       2023-06-01T23:33:20Z
       
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       Got Lemmy running in some Docker containers to play with. In terms of being a personal pinboard alternative for link sharing, it's missing tagging or hash tags. So, that might keep it from being handy for me, since I use tags as a way to find things laterCould just be that I'm aiming for a use case not intended to be addressed by Lemmy 🤷‍♂️
       
 (DIR) Post #AWK0qPbvHwly0W71yi by lmorchard@hackers.town
       2023-06-03T17:33:51Z
       
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       So this Lemmy thing isn't exactly what I wanted for personal link sharing, but it's been pretty neat to have an instance up and see federated groups & comment threads working.Still got some troubleshooting to do, though, since posts on my new server don't seem to be recognized by Mastodon instances (but they do from other Lemmy servers)
       
 (DIR) Post #AWK0qQEuwxxrxSMAl6 by lmorchard@hackers.town
       2023-06-03T17:36:43Z
       
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       I think there's an interesting instance-as-gateway thing going on here that we kinda lost with centralized services.Like, I have a Lemmy instance and through that I can read & respond to threads in communities on other instances.It's a lot like FidoNet back in the day, where your local dial-up BBS was your gateway to the federated echoes with discussion coming in from elsewhereMastodon has this too, of course, but Mastodon is less group / topic / community centered
       
 (DIR) Post #AWK0qQsyY20Vxh6ACG by lmorchard@hackers.town
       2023-06-03T17:51:19Z
       
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       Another fun thing is that with Lemmy based on ActivityPub, I could still build my own link sharing server that works more how I'd prefer - but still interoperate with Lemmy and Mastodon and Calckey and....
       
 (DIR) Post #AWK0qQxaGth4BzFqNc by lmorchard@hackers.town
       2023-06-03T17:39:40Z
       
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       Of course "activitypub as fidonet" is not a new idea. I'm just thinking about it again.https://l33t.codes/2023/02/04/ActivityPub-is-the-new-FidoNet/