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It seems like reading comprehension is not what it used to be.

“Much like” == “very similar too” AKA, “close, but no cigar”

You wouldn’t compare something to the same something, that’s kind of the point of comparisons.

Ventrillo and Teamspeak as well

I didn’t realize it was possible to host your own backend locally… I thought it was just hosting the webUI locally.

Jumping from one proprietary system to another isn’t really an improvement.

Some of the alternative web-UIs let you do that. Photon for sure and I think Alexandrite as well.

Then keep it in the politics and news communities, and don’t be surprised when you are kicked. You don’t go protesting at the KKK meeting expecting to change minds just like you don’t try to go to !politics@lemmy.ml expecting to change minds. If you are looking for real discussion then don’t go to a community that is hostile to the discussion you want to have.

If you don’t insert politics into normal conversations and you value relationships more than you value being right (left) then this should not be an issue.

Stay away from the political communities and don’t feel like you need to correct people when they spout out political bullremoved.

That’s good news. Hopefully they’ll get let you change your avatar in that new UI because that’s one of the weirdly missing Photon features.

Yeah, I run Photon on base domain because I couldn’t count on lemmy-ui.

Forget the backend! I just want the frontend not to crap itself whenever it can’t fetch the site icon!

Spoken like somebody who knows nothing about what they are saying.

You don’t need an account on lemmy.ml to subscribe to any community there. For example, I run my own self-hosted instance and none of the communities I’m subscribed to are from my own instance.

Id say that the obvious answer is the Linux community with the most members. !linux@lemmy.ml has more than double the number of subscribers of the next most active Linux community.

This is just some random person’s blog post and you people are acting like this is supposed to be journalism?

Weird that scruz.social shows up on that list. I shut that down ages ago and it was not even a lemmy instance…it was mastodon.

You will need your original ansible files, however you should be able to find the important config ones in /srv/lemmy/ on your server. What you are supposed to do is pull the latest ansible files from GitHub then run the ansible install script. If you are unsure where to place the files you recovered from /srv/lemmy/ you can just look back through the installation instructions.

“They” = companies with money to invest and profits to be had.

Hear me out - you could run, like, a sneaker-net but with cargo ships!

How would you propose connecting to a mesh network without the use of an ISP? Are you thinking wireless (wifi)? For something like that to work you would need an AP/repeater every 150 feet or so. How would you cross oceans without bouncing wireless signals off the ionosphere (creating latency issues) or using a cable (requiring some entity to maintain it - $$$)?

If you break it down into the requirements to do such a thing you can start to understand why your question is a bit ridiculous.