HeartyBeast

I don’t have a particular problem with instances deciding that they want to fund themselves through advertising. When the Fediverse was developing, one of my predictions was that instances would come up with multiple different ways to fund each other including donations, subscriptions and advertising.

Do you never e-mail people with gmail or yahoo addresses?

I did actually click through to the original community to

I’m on kbin.social but subscribe to unitedkingdom on Feddit - look like it is workinhg OK at the moment

Same with kbin users

Because?

You know what I really hate about the worldwide web? All these different websites. It is so confusing, how is anyone going to remember them?

It won’t catch on until it’s one big website that does everything

Perfect. Thank you for taking the time to dig this out for me

This was the great promise of the fediverse

Promised by who, when? Seriously - I don’t remember it being a part of the proposition

I was wondering if they might port it to an ActivityPub instance

You can create your own Lemmy or Kbin server just for you and post whatever you want. Whether other servers federate with you is another matter of course.

The Fediverse gives you absolute freedom of speech and everyone else absolute freedom to block you.

I’ve been mucking about with the new claude.ai from anthropic, and thought I would ask it - here’s what it said:

Y

Yes, it is possible to set up a private Lemmy instance for use within a group of friends. Here are some steps to do this:

1. Install Lemmy on a server you control. Lemmy is open source software written in Rust. You’ll need a Linux server with Rust installed to run it.

2. Configure the Lemmy config file. Set the following options:

• federated_timeline_enabled - false
• registration_open - false
• external_federation_enabled - false
  This will disable public federated timelines and open registration.

1. Create user accounts manually. As an admin, you can create accounts for each of your friends on the Lemmy admin interface.

2. Consider enabling SSL. It’s recommended to enable HTTPS encryption on your Lemmy instance. You can get a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt.

3. Share the URL only with friends. Don’t publish the URL publicly, only share with your intended friend group.

4. Lock down the server access. Use firewall rules, VPN, or IP whitelisting to restrict access to the server.

5. Keep Lemmy updated. Watch for security updates and upgrade Lemmy regularly to stay safe.

6. Consider private federation. You could federate multiple private Lemmy instances to allow a broader reach while still keeping everything private.

That covers the basics! With those steps, you can have a private Lemmy server for your friend group to use.

Thanks for that. I think I was getting confused between turning off all federation and defederating with an instance.

Setting all that aside, I would caution that even turning off federation isn’t enough to necessarily make it truly private. People could still discover it through random portscanning or whatever.

As I understand it, disabling federation stops you seeing other people’s content. It doesn’t stop others from seeing yours. Though how they would fibd yours is a different matter.

Tumblr isn’t based on ActivityPub, so you can’t “defederate” from it.

A question for you. Is any Lemmy instance federated with Threads?

They aren’t. It’s just people want to be outraged

OK.

How to do suggest they defederate from an entity which isn’t federating with anyone?

And/ or moderators could have setting to automagically display threads from selected communities. Similar to how #tags currently work with the microblog part of kbin.

Because then it wouldn’t be federated, it would be centralised.

Just to be clear - I don’t think it is in breach but you have federated servers in various countries, some of which may be owned by entities that do business in the EU making copies of and forwarding messages that contain PII .