I mean, lemmy.world is a big enough instance that it has attracted people with all sorts of views. You probably aren't going to find it better on any other instance.
Probably just block communities which don't moderate people enough to keep on topic.
Or if this is a dog whistle for rightwing centristism... Uh... Stop it?
Proton Unlimited, which gives me access to mail, storage and a VPN.
Linode, I have a VPN which I use for selfhosting some things.
Various domain names. They're actually cheaper than you think they are.
Youtube Premium. I watch a lot of YouTube, and it helps creators.
Discord Nitro. Begrudgingly.
1Password. Technically I don't pay for this, as I get it free as part of a plan from work, but I'd probably buy it when that runs out.
I'm kinda interested in watching streams more (to diversify my video watching habits), so am kinda curious about Twitch's ad-free premium plan thing as well...
Of course, there's also donations and patreon/subscribestar/ko-fi subscriptions, but I don't really consider those "subscription services".
Same here. I'm mostly paying because at least some of the money goes to creators, and I don't want to have to constantly be fighting with the adblocker stuff. I watch a lot of youtube (perhaps more than is healthy) and realistically it does cost Google money to host it.
There's the whole "instances" thing which, while not that confusing, is still a barrier to entry. You could make an account on mastodon.social, but there's a vocal group out there that says you should NEVER do that and pick an instance that is good (without any good tooling for finding out what a "good" instance is). The benefits of Mastodon over Twitter or Bluesky aren't as obvious either to non-technical people, so I can imagine people see it like Arch Linux or something. It's something that's good for the people that understand it, but not useful for those that don't.
You also need to figure out how to get content from another instance into yours, which is not really that intuitive. If I give you a link to a Mastodon post, you need to know to go back to your own instance and paste it into the search bar. That's not intuitive at all.
And of course there's experiences people have had with "bad" instances that travel through word of mouth. A lot of furries are reluctant to try Mastodon because a big furry instance exploded a while back, I think.
I used to be a staunch mastodon fanboy, but honestly I'm starting to lean towards Bluesky nowadays.
Sure there's only one big company controlling all the instances, but their federation system has solved a lot of the pain points that have been plagueing Mastodon. I can actually follow artists on it without having to deal with mastodon.art.
And hey, it's an easy to use social media to use for the "normies" rather that the techie Mastodon.
As far as I know, none of the major DEs have Windows-style telemetry turned on by default. So ignoring security issues and apps themselves, DEs should roughly be the same on the privacy front.
There are a number of features that make them different, but the major one that makes me favour ATProto is that it gets around the centralization problems of the Fediverse.
My identity is linked to pawb.social. That means that if someone falls out with my admin over something, I get blocked as fallout.
Likewise, if my admin falls out with someone else and blocks them, I have to follow those decisions.
My data is stored on pawb.social. That means that if the server gets shut down, even with warning, poof! My data is gone.
In addition, there isn't any way to transfer data between ActivityPub instances. Sure you can set up redirects in Mastodon, but there's no way to actually transfer information or history.
There's really no reason these three things all need to be managed by the same entity (pawb.social in my case).
Under ATProto:
My identity is handled by DNS. I control my domain name, so I control my identity and reputation.
While this isn't battle tested yet, ATProto (or at least Bluesky) has much better support for blocklists. Individual users can create their own blocklist and share them with others. So Bluesky itself doesn't need to ban other instances unless they start doing really illegal things.
My data is stored on Bluesky's servers, but I can easily move it to another server if I need to without breaking anything (I think? ATProto nerds, is this true?).
If I don't like the way Bluesky is going I can just... Leave. I can move my data to another platform and log in to another frontend. All without my followers even noticing a difference or losing any content.
It also has some cool features. For example, there's this thing which allows you to just set up pronouns so that they are visible on your own profile to other people that use the list. https://bsky.app/profile/pronouns.adorable.mom All implemented without any protocol extensions.
I don't think so - there's already a project that bridges between AT and AP, so in theory it's possible for that to just be pulled into Mastodon proper.
However, that's not to say it'll be easy. It'll be a years of work with lots of challenges and drama.
You can have multiple A records point to the same IP address, yes. Whatever website you're managing your DNS with should allow you to create multiple subdomains as A/AAAA records. You can also (if you wish) use a wildcard to ensure that all subdomains go to your VPS's server.
If you want to run multiple HTTP/HTTPS services on the same IP address (as it looks like you want to do), you'll need to use a reverse proxy like Nginx. It can pattern match on domain names and ensure that traffic for one domain goes to an appropriate port/socket (mastodon.example.com being sent to the mastodon service). It's not possible for DNS to specify port redirection.
Also, you've not mentioned it here, but look into https://letsencrypt.org/ for HTTPS certificates.
This is actually something I've been thinking about a lot as of late...
I broadly have three "identities":
My "IRL" identity, for work and family life and stuff.
My "online" identity where I pretend to be a wolf-thing.
My "spicy online" identity which... Well, it'd be rude to share. :P
I've been wondering how isolated to keep them... But as part of my recent plan to stop worrying about everything so much, I'm trying to not get too stressed about ways people could figure out how to "link them together". I highly doubt that anyone is going to take the time to run my reputation through the mud. And even if they tried, I like to think we live in modern times where the fact that I look at werewolf boobs isn't going to be that morally objectionable.
This ultimately will undoubtedly lead to major disruptions and social unrest.
Will it? And if it does, I've seen a lot of unrest being in favour of social progress, which I think is at least part due to marginalized groups being able to find and advocate for each other. Is that a problem?
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I mean, lemmy.world is a big enough instance that it has attracted people with all sorts of views. You probably aren't going to find it better on any other instance.
Probably just block communities which don't moderate people enough to keep on topic.
Or if this is a dog whistle for rightwing centristism... Uh... Stop it?