You probably would be, but that depends on the law where the server is hosted. This isn’t a good place for legal advice like that.

What kind of server do you want to host?

Since AP servers both accept incoming connections and make outgoing connections, both sides need valid certificates to do HTTPS.

Good luck getting the server connecting to you to trust it!

I can’t imagine it’d work without a domain, as your instance will need to talk HTTPS with other instances.

That’s pretty much been my experience, as well.

It’s a timeline approach. So, I just enter notes for each day. I’ve developed a habit of just putting things down when I need, including random stuff, links to Slack conversations, etc. I then use tags to bind things together, and there are a couple of plugins in use.

I’ve been using Logseq at work and I LOOOOVE it.

It’s something that Linux users have been saying for 20 years and it’s outdated. It makes sense when maybe your computer came with less than a GB of RAM, but these days I usually configure a server with a small amount of swap (like a couple of GB), and I set swappiness to something very low like 5.

Yes, I agree with you. I’m certainly willing to take more risks with my personal systems than my work systems. Plus, I don’t use any configuration management here at home, so everything I have is setup by hand and unique.

No.

Depends on the context, I think. For me, I rarely do it for personal stuff. If I wanted to be perfect, I could do it, assuming a signature is available to verify, but I’m lazy. I would venture to say most folks don’t do it either.

With that being said, where I have been consistent about doing it has been writing config management code at work. If I need to have it download an installer from an untrusted source, I can verify that I’m installing the same package on all servers by verifying the signature before installation. This doesn’t always work well in all circumstances, though.

I do wish you could federate/sync specific communities to your instance to make searching/subscribing easier.

You mean something that populates your server with a history of posts and comments to communities before your subscribe to them?

It would probably be helpful if others knew what platforms you preferred to use. 🙂

If you’re in Apple’s ecosystem, I’m personally fond of Reeder.

I’m sorry, I still don’t quite follow what you want. What does it mean to access the entire Fediverse?

Well, an instance is only going to have access to the data that’s federated to it, which I’m pretty sure was the same situation with Usenet.

It sounds like your issue has to do with Mastodon’s lack of full-text search, perhaps?

What exactly does it mean to be Usenet-like, in terms of a Fediverse experience?

Yeah, they were pretty amazing back in the day when you spent time actually using them to talk on the phone.

I used to run FreshRSS and it worked well. I now use an app that just pulls feeds directly and syncs to iCloud. It isn’t quite as good as FreshRSS, but it works fine for me.

As far as I know, Lemmy doesn’t have a way of following anyone else on the Fediverse, but you can certainly follow Lemmy users from Mastodon.

In the Mastodon web interface, you can take the URL of the Lemmy community and paste it into the search bar. After you press Enter, the community should show up, and you can follow it.

Another way to reference the community is using @ notation. For this community, you’d use @technology@beehaw.org in Mastodon.

I use Ivory to access my Mastodon account, and I’ve found that it doesn’t recognize URLs from Lemmy at all. So, the @ notation works best there. Regardless, the Mastodon web interface handles it all properly.