This is or at least was a problem with cross-posts in the same community in Lemmy as well. I think now Lemmy just prevents posts with the same URL to be counted as crossposts when they are in the same community.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/configuration.html

You need to set it to proxy all images.

Then you have not enabled to full image proxy (and note that it does not work retroactively). Here on our instance all the Nicole images were proxied correctly to protect the privacy of our members.

Lemmy does have a functional image proxy, but due to the storage and bandwidth requirements many larger instances have chosen to not enable it.

Tagging @rimu@piefed.social as mentions don’t work in post bodies, only in comments.

Would be interesting indeed to have a database migration script or so.

My understanding is that these groups are separate from the normal Pixelfed feed.

I agree, the all feed is commonly misunderstood to mean all of the Lemmyverse, but this is both a technical impossibility and also a false notion.

What the all feed actually means is all communities subscribed to by a member of your instance.

Especially on thematic, not too big, instances this can be quite interesting and definitely more useful that a bland feed of everything mixed together.

Obviously the bigger the instance, the more the all feed will tend to conform to a bland mix, and somewhat controversially a lot of instances are registered with a bot service that actively auto-subscribes each to other communities making the effect much worse.

The Mastodon software seems to be in a kind of anti-sweetspot for this kind of hosting service. It kinda sucks that other better options have so much less name recognition that marketing becomes hard.

Cool. It’s actually still on my long to do list to try this. Thanks for the update!

If you can get someone else with a local account to open the community they can hand it over to your slrpnk.net account afterwards. Most of the many previous bugs around moderation functions have been fixed in 0.19.8/9.

However there are two main issues remaining:

1. You will rarely get any reports as those do not properly federate right now. A fix is supposedly in the works for the next Lemmy release, but this has been promised a few times with limited success.

2. If de-federated instances differ then you can end up with impossible to moderate situations. For example hexbear.net is blocked by slrpnk.net but it is not blocked by lemmy.dbzer0.com. This means people from that instance can post to the community, but these post are entirely invisible to you as a moderator with an account from slrpnk.net.

My recommendation is that you do not do remote moderation alone. At best you can help someone with an account on that remote instance to moderate a remote community.

Generally speaking Trump is not getting into an alliance with Russia, but rather joins the “multipolar” club of imperialists that want to carve out their own sphere of influence without the others interfereing. China agrees with this but there are other reasons why the interests of the US and China still clash.

Experimented with selfhosting a Woodpecker CI as a complement to my Forgejo.

Works quite nicely, I just need to set up a native ARM64 agent as the overhead of cross compilation on x86_64 is quite big.

XMPP also has a working ActivityPub bridge. But I think at some point these bridges are a bridge too far.

Software like Friendica or Hubzilla that can speak multiple protocols including AP are clearly part of the Fediverse, but things that need 3rd party bridges IMHO are not, as the creators clearly do no intend them to be part of it. Otherwise Xhitter would be also part of the Fediverse as bridges exist(ed in the past at least).

The title already gives it away 😜

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dean-spade-solidarity-not-charity

Just install Linux on the laptop and start experimenting.

Yunohost is very easy, but something like Debian or Fedora Server Edition will be more flexible.

Charity is not the same as mutual aid anyways, even though I have also seen “mutual aid” requests on the Fediverse that were clearly asking for charity.

Matrix mobile clients got worse, yes 😅

Otherwise not really. Three years ago Conversations was quite good already, although the newer forks Cheogram and Monocles added some nice convenience features.

Xmpp itself works great. The slidge.im bridges are relatively new and your mileage will vary. Matrix, Discord and Telegram works ok, Signal & Facebook messenger have issues right now, WhatsApp is a bit tricky to set up properly.

Matrix servers have the problem of highly variable resource use.

Basically if you only use it for some light chatting with friends and family and some niche topic public rooms it isn’t very heavy.

But if any user of your homeserver joins any busy rooms or uses the bridges to join busy public Telegram channels or such, it will quickly outgrow the resources of a reasonably priced VPS.

Personally I would rather recommend you to set up an xmpp server, which can include a gateway to Matrix and other services, but architecturally is much more lightweight and has better mobile clients.