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It is indeed. Main consequence of this is that if you join a new or small instance, you will see less of the fediverse without actively seeking it

What’s an instance?

An instance is a server running the Lemmy software (or some other federation software such as Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, and others). Instances can talk together (similarly to how you can send email from gmail.com to outlook.com), so you can sign up on one instance and subscribe and comment to communities on other instances

What’s a community?

A community is to Lemmy what a subreddit is to Reddit. on

What are federations?

Federation is the machanism allowing different instances (servers) to talk together. Federation is automatic, so two instances becomes federated, when you as a user on one instance subscribe to a community on a different instance

Whats the difference between all these?

Many instances are general but have somewhat different values and rules for what you can post or not. “lemmy.world” is a good choice for a general instance. There are also topic specific instances, such as “mander.xyz” that is science focused.

What’s mastodon?

Mastodon is like twitter but is part of the federated universe (the “fediverse”).

What’s Kbin?

Kbin - like Lemmy - is like Reddit. The impelemntation is different and focuses on different fetures. Some (myself included) like Kbin more than Lemmy - others the other way around.

What’s ActivityPub?

ActivityPub is the common technical protocol that allows all of the software in the Fediverse to talk together. Both Mastodon, Kbin and Lemmy (and others) are build “on top” of the ActivityPub protocol.

Hope this helps

I have a central NAS server that hosts all my personal files and shares them (via smb, ssh, syncthing and jellyfin). It also pulls backups from all my local servers and cloud services (google drive, onedrive, dropbox, evernote, mail, calender and contacts, etc.). It runs zfs raid 1 and snapshots every 15 minute. Every night it backs up important files to Backblaze in a US region and azure in a EU region (using restic).

I have a bootstrap procedure in place to do a “clean room recovery” assuming I lost access to all my devices - i only need to remember a tediously long encryption password for a small package containing everything needed to recover from scratch. It is tested every year during Christmas holidays including comparing every single backed and restored file with the original via md5/sha256 comparison.

DYI NAS (mini-itx mobo with on-board atom chip and 8 GB ram and zfs) running:

• ssh (SCP/sshfs shared)
• smb
• jellyfin
• syncthing
• dovecot
• rclone for pull backups from Google drove, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
• restic for backing everything up to backblaze + azure

Intel NUC running:

• zwavejs
• deconz / phoscon

Intel NUC (DMZ) running:

• wireguard
• home assistant
• Doods (object detection for home assistant camera entities
• mosquitto mqtt
• unifi controller
• AdGuardHome
• roundcube email
• nginx reverse proxy for all services + hosting some static sites