Hello, Beehaw r0ckstars!!

So I’ve been really enjoying the Lemmy platform and Beehaw.org as the place I get my Lemmy feed… I have a couple day 2 questions and wonder if ya’ll might take a sh0t at answering them. :P Lets g00000:

So I see, on the main page/feed, that I can select subscribed, local or all posts. I usually look thru subscribed first, of course, but should I stay local or select all when just reading thru posts? I assume all - is all like the rest of the Lemmy fediverse? I’d like to view posts from other websites, so I think I know my answer… but wonder what ya’ll do.

Next, I’m a retro-computing nerd and host a few services from my home network… my BBS, a Matrix server, a KDX/Hotline server [I know, I know…], a Mast… all the hipster stuff. Should I run a Lemmy??? Does the Lemmy project want more nodes, or do the devs prefer large sites such as Beehaw.org??? I am really enjoying the Lemmy experience and beliefs - while Beehaw.org’s spirit and mission statements fully coincide with my beliefs, I do have the ability to host services on decent domains with good uptime. :P If I ran a Lemmy node would I still be able to easily get Beehaw.org posts???

How large is the Lemmy fediverse userbase so far? I see that Beehaw.org has around 500 users a day… OK. And theres a couple larger Lemmy sites, right??? So we’re still at the early phases of Lemmy? How long has it been around??? Why didn’t I know about it sooner??? [rhetorical on that one… :)]

Glad to be here… thanks for anyone who takes the time to itch my scratch.

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  • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    If I run a Lemmy instance, can I create sub-reddits, or forums? [What are they called on Lemmy???]

  • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I honestly, don’t really look outside of Beehaw so I keep to subscribed or local.

    I think a mix of big and small nodes is best. Big ones are good for the structure they can give and small ones for the better moderation and more involved sense of community. I think Beehaw falls more into the latter.

    If you made your own, you could easily get Beehaw’s posts and communities just like any other server in the fediverse, it’s the really great thing about it all - the inter-connectivity of communities.

    Lemmy has around 46,257 total users according to https://the-federation.info/. Beehaw has around 3k at the momt. Lemmy has existed for about 4 years, I think.

    Edit : fediverse -> lemmy

  • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    I wish I could run Lemmy on my website and connect it, somehow, to the comments section of my articles/blog posts… like - if I were running a Lemmy instance and were able to create a sub that IS my websites comments/replies and have them linked or listed underneath each article… one can dream, right??

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      It’s not farfetched, it should be possible. It would just need technical skills if no one has done it yet.

      A basic version would be that you could run an instance, submit your posts manually, then add an iFrame under your blog that embeds the lemmy site. Janky but it could work.

      If you were super technical, the Lemmy interface and the Lemmy server are separate. You could build a new interface in your blog that communicates with the server.

      Another idea is you could try to search for a blog comment plugin based on Mastodon, and see if it can be tweaked to run with Lemmy

  • Rentlar@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    So local is if you want to see beehaw posts only. All is if you want to see posts from federated Lemmy servers. This community is great so I start in Local then go to All after to see what’s buzzing on other servers.

    For lemmy stats across many servers check out this site!

    You can set up your own single user instance, and then you can comment on other servers including Beehaw. The communities you interact with/subscribe to will populate your homepage.

  • pAULIE42o@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the replies; I’m commenting to both of ya’ll r0ckstars in this reply b/c you both answered my questions and gave me some links to checkout; Beehaw.org is great for my home LemmyNet site, but I’ll search thru all after checking my subs.

    Users can’t create their own sub-forums, right??? I do wish that was a thing, as I’m missing a few of my main /r/'s…

    Thanks ya’ll… appreciate the community we have here and the willingness to help the newbs. Cheers!

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      I’m afraid creating a copy of a subreddit doesn’t make those people come here. It’s better to have less specific groups where different types of content is created, then break off new communities at the point the overwhelm the genralised ones.

      There’s a post that covers that here.

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
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          1 year ago

          That post isn’t by the Lemmy devs, it’s by one of the admins at the second-largest instance.

          I think one of the benefits of this setup is that each instance gets to decide for themselves how they want to operate.

    • kiwi@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Some/most servers only allow admins to create new communities (sub-forum). You can create any communities you want on your own instance and those communities can be accessed from other servers.