No. Only communities that at least one local user is subscribed to are federated into an instance.
And I realize I made a mistake in the feed names. My local feed is completely empty. My 'all' feed is what I was intending to describe with that comment. It is just the communities that either my wife or I have subscribed to. I haven't done this yet but I was reading about a project that admins can add to their instance that effectively creates a phantom user to subscribe to lots of content all across the fediverse. It's intended to help bridge the gap between very small instances and the rest of the fediverse by ensuring that your 'all' feed actually aggregates content from other instances without requiring you to subscribe.
I'm blanking on the name and can't find the posts I saved about it, but I'd really like to try it out to make it easier to come across new communities organically without having to hunt them down.
Usually by the time I notice the server is already unreachable over SSH but I've been considering adding manual healthchecks to my containers. Paired with the docker-autoheal project it's been a really low effort way for me to keep services healthy without a lot of babysitting. I'm more nervous about implimenting it for something like a stateful database though, but I suppose it's no different than manually issuing a docker restart command.
Obligatory: I've worked on thousands of computers and servers and never worn an ESD strap and never had any issues, though when I've touched a couple $500k+ servers I've definitely considered if maybe I should.
Federation is open by default but I never post anything to my home instance because no one is there. If I started posting on my own instance other people could theoretically subscribe to my communities the same way I subscribe to communities on other instances but since there are only two users on my instance it's pretty unlikely people would find it without me crossposting somewhere.
Benefits of me running my own instance are that I control my own user account and I'm not at the whims of another admin. I subscribe to content on lots of other instances and it all federates into mine which means I've been able to browse content when some of the big instances go down. I've got my own entrypoint to lemmy which feels a bit more neutral than choosing another instance to be 'home' for my user.
Downsides are that I have to pay for and maintain it myself which can sometimes be a serious pain. Because my instance only has two users my 'all' feed is basically a copy of my 'subscribed' feed plus a couple posts from communities that my wife subscribes to that I don't. That can make it hard to find new content without using something like lemmyverse.net.
If you're thinking about hosting your own instance I encourage you to give it a shot. I'd highly recommend the lemmy-ansible project on github which is both a guide and playbook for deploying the various lemmy docker containers using ansible. I'm a sysadmin by trade so running services like this is something I'm pretty familiar with but I've still found myself frustrated by Lemmy more than once. It's still a young project and can be frustratingly brittle and difficult to troubleshoot. That being said it's been a great learning experience and makes me feel like I'm doing my part to contribute to a better and more decentralized web.
It runs perfectly fine most of the time and then will occasionally lock up my entire server until I reboot.
I've been working on getting some better monitoring and log aggregation set up so I can troubleshoot what is actually happening but it's a bit slow going. As of now I can't tell if the database is getting overloaded, if the frontend is getting spammed, or what is going on really.
My instance has two users and it runs on a VPC with 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM.
Every time I think about this sort of thing I remember that in Fallout 3 the developers added a moving train to the game by making the train a hat that was worn by a man that ran really fast underneath the ground to make the train move.
Plus the delivery dates are a joke anyway. Prime or not my orders all show up in the same amount of time. Sure they promise it's always 1-2 days but that doesn't seem to matter.
Toribor @ Toribor @corndog.social Posts 0Comments 981Joined 2 yr. ago
No. Only communities that at least one local user is subscribed to are federated into an instance.
And I realize I made a mistake in the feed names. My local feed is completely empty. My 'all' feed is what I was intending to describe with that comment. It is just the communities that either my wife or I have subscribed to. I haven't done this yet but I was reading about a project that admins can add to their instance that effectively creates a phantom user to subscribe to lots of content all across the fediverse. It's intended to help bridge the gap between very small instances and the rest of the fediverse by ensuring that your 'all' feed actually aggregates content from other instances without requiring you to subscribe.
I'm blanking on the name and can't find the posts I saved about it, but I'd really like to try it out to make it easier to come across new communities organically without having to hunt them down.