Lemmy.world used to cost that much, but I think they downscaled a bit recently, or are at least planning to as the current growth of the userbase has slowed down.

I was actually surprised by that 150 figure when I first read it, as it is much cheaper than what the BlueSky documentation makes it sound.

It is certainly possible to collect that much in monthly donations, but then again… how do you build a loyal base of supporters for running a mostly hidden piece of infrastructure? People always complain about the instance focussed nature of the fediverse, but the ability to build communities around them and get people actually emotionally invested in their home instance is IMHO rather a strength of it. That is also why I am slightly sceptic of easy account migration tools, as it devalues the instance as yourhome base to a certain extend.

It would be interesting to know more about the additional users. The banning of Shitter in Brazil is very much tied to internal politics and AFAIK it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

If so, this might be a bad thing for them, as they probably don’t want to get perceived as the Brazilian truth.social.

I think XMPP is a nice supplement to ActivityPub instances for more private chat. You can quite easily hook the user database of Mastodon or Lemmy to an XMPP server and have the same user address work for both that way.

Wordpress is a pile of decades old php code* that is held together with string and tape pretty much.

*php isn’t the problem itself, modern php is actually pretty nice.

Given how crufty Wordpress is, I don’t even dare to imagine how bad the Tumblr backend must be that this is seen as an improvement by the developers.

IRC can actually be quite good. The main problem is the super outdated popular networks like libera.chat, but if your run your own IRC server with modern clients it works nicely (or you can use a good bouncer like Soju). Supplement it with a Mumble or Jitsi-meet server and you got at least a functional equivalent to Discord, even though of course not nearly as polished or easy to use as Discord.

We also upgraded fairly quickly and aside from some annoyances with the new image caching it’s not worse than 0.19.3, so relatively speaking this was a good upgrade.

Reddit has been declining for years as well and basically just lives on momentum from earlier days when forums or forum-likes had their heyday.

Lemmy is trying to get a cut of a shrinking user base and is doing so by being a very close copy of Reddit. It’s not exactly surprising that it only “grows” when there is a wave of people annoyed with Reddit for some reason.

Your suggestions are fine, but the internet as a whole is moving to semi-private communities and Lemmy is not going to stop that overall trend.

I wondered about this before but apparently the Telegram client is terrible spaghetti code under the hood, making these kind of ideas not feasible.

You might like Monocles Chat though, which is an Android XMPP client with a somewhat nicer looking interface.

There is also the work in progress Moxxy client, which is a from ground up new XMPP client written in Flutter. It seems to take some interface inspiration from Telegram, but to be honest, it isn’t anywhere near to be fully usable and development has been slow in recent months.

There is an experimental bridge between the two, but yes you are probably better off looking for something else for now if you need Mastodon compatibility.

I think you are confused. conversations.im is not the best place to register for using Movim. Better chose from https://join.movim.eu

Also, XMPP is not ActivityPub, which Mastodon uses.

I wouldn’t say best, but Movim (xmpp based) has a personal and shared blog feature, which the latter being somewhat similar in concept to Telegram channels, even though the UX is more blog like.

Afaik it uses a very similar codebase and plugins can be easily ported or might even work out of the box.

Maybe this? https://theia-ide.org/

Only once during the initial setup, afterwards its all managed by Systemd. Once you know about it, it takes like one minute max.?

Its actually much easier to autostart containers with Podman, as it has full Systemd integration, so you can handle them like any other service. All you need to do is write a simple .container file for the Podman built-in Quadlet service, which closely follows the normal Systemd .service file syntax.

There are .pod files for Quadlet now, which do what you want. No Kubernetes involved.

My impression is really the opposite. Podman is constantly being improved and nice features get added all the time.

If you don’t like SELinux, just disable it. Nothing to do with Podman.

Podman-generate was replaced by Quadlet .container files, which works better.

And a Pod also has it’s own virtual network, why manually create one?

Currently at step 9. Waiting for the roving bands of thugs to arrive 😅

It seems to be inspired by Facebook groups, yes. I am not sure if there is an event integration yet.