This was written before lemmy.one was created, but I feel similarly (to not defederate) at the moment: https://fediverse.neat.pub/2023/07/10/threads/ - could definitely go either way with this one though.

Can you self-host, or are you looking for another online service? Facebook Groups is basically a forum when it comes down to it, and any forum software can do what you’re asking. I really like Discourse. You can self-host it for free (well, whatever your server costs), they’ll host it for free if you’re an open-source project, or if you’re a legal non-profit you can get 50% off their hosting for $25-50/month.

I’ll be upgrading lemmy.one in about 6 hours 👍

The latest release is 0.17.4: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases

That’s Lemmy, it doesn’t do this.

Every provider we list on our site does: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

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I’m not aware of the problems, so I can’t make such a post. Looking at this now and searching by URL for magazines on kbin and communities on lemmy instances both seem to work as expected, so I can’t reproduce what you’re seeing.

I am aware of issues with lemmy.ml, searching for communities that are hosted on that server will often fail the first few times, and subscribing to communities that are hosted on that server often shows that subscriptions are “pending,” so if that’s where you are searching for communities I can see why it’d be an issue. Federation is a two-way street, so if lemmy.one can’t fetch remote data then it won’t work, but I’ve seen many other reports of people subscribing to remote communities just fine, so I don’t think there’s any issues we’re seeing on our end.

4 core AMD, 8GB RAM. Memory usage usually hovers around 1.5GB, load average around 0.6, so… Not sure what is going on over at lemmy.world lol

The downvote isn’t federated.

I disagree, but it sounds like lemm.ee will be a better fit for you, and that’s the beauty of the fediverse 👍

When doing an outdoor activity, I would allow my precise location on a run.

It is well-known now that anonymizing location data still does not preserve privacy: https://iapp.org/news/a/getting-lost-in-the-crowd-the-limits-of-privacy-in-location-data-2/

Yes, you will have to be sure to join an instance aligned with your values on moderation.

Are we observing lemmy.ml having slow-downs or congestion problems?

Absolutely, even now I just opened lemmy.ml in a web browser, and the page half-loaded without any styling. Their instance is not functioning reliably in general.

You only start getting posts and comments from after the first person on your instance (you in this case) subscribes to the community. You can make it fetch old posts manually if there’s something you want to reply to by entering the post URL in /search, otherwise just wait and all the new posts will show up here.

Comments are pushed out by the community’s server, they’re not pulled in by yours. So if you’re missing comments from communities hosted on lemmy.ml for example, it may be that lemmy.ml is overloaded and not sending out comments to the fediverse properly.

The other common issue with missing comments and posts is misconfigured language settings in your profile. You need to make sure at least Undefined and English are both selected, lots of people only have English selected which will make a lot of posts hidden.

DM’d you here.

PMs via Lemmy are a thing, but if you’re an existing Subreddit mod I want to verify that on Reddit :)