One thing I use it for, and its the main one for me, is to turn off all suggestions. So that way I get to focus on the channels I subscribed and that's it. This is great if you're concerned with wasting time mindlessly surfing Youtube.
I think that if you are concerned with user experience you should stick with a centralized system. I am willing to sacrifice a bit of the user experience for decentralization. But that's just me.
Luckily there's a bunch of instances not just lemmy.world. If we find it's starting to get too centralized we can always subscribe to other communities. Or am I wrong?
We should have an option to merge communities in 1 single feed or something. Or maybe a grouping function, where we could name the group, and any communities under that group would show as a single group. Then other people could like your group and also subscribe etc. But that way maybe things could get complicated. I mean for the average Joe it will already be difficult IMO to make the effort to understand the Fediverse. I mean I took my time to understand it and start using it, cause I was lazy and had Reddit. I guess there are no perfect solutions, there's always dissadvantages. For sure 1 thing that is attactive with centralized systems is the peace of mind when it comes to understanding it, because it's simple etc. Like starting using Crypto vs using a bank account and so on.
Oh I'm rambling already.
So you think the state should have the power to decide who gets to live or die? Really? Also not to mention Justice is many times wrong and its not uncommon for people to be wrongly convicted.
In case of Lemmy I used Lemmy-Easy-Deploy script. To host I used Oracle Cloud always free tier. Its risky because I've heard people say that since its free they can just pull the plug at any time, so you might consider to upgrade it to paid account, I heard its cheap.
About requirements I have no idea. Im running my on a VM instance with Ubuntu minimal 22.04 aarch64. I pushed it to the maximum allowed for free account: 4 ARM cpu with 24Gb of Ram.
I dont know anything about hosting mastodon.
Liftoff in my opinion is the nest so far. But for some reason after updating UI for my phone it started crashing all the time so I cant use it. Using wefwef.app now.
One thing I use it for, and its the main one for me, is to turn off all suggestions. So that way I get to focus on the channels I subscribed and that's it. This is great if you're concerned with wasting time mindlessly surfing Youtube.