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I moved things over to a liberapay team link instead of it being linked to my own liberapay account. I did add a donation goal but it's really just arbitrary. Per usual donations aren't expected but are appreciated to help keep things running.

On the bookwyrm side of things, I'm unsure if I would need to get a different server altogether for a bookwyrm instance or if I can use it here, we will see. If you do truly want to see a bookwyrm instance I'd suggest considering donating, as that may become an extra cost even if I am successful in running it on the same server as this lemmy instance.

seems like the federation queue is slowly but surely catching up for lemmy.world, we will see though

Server needs to restart for some update stuff, should be brief though

https://m.literature.cafe/ - voyager/mobile site

https://a.literature.cafe/ - alexandrite

https://old.literature.cafe/ - old reddit style

~~https://ph.literature.cafe/ - photon (kinda glitchy)~~ had to remove cause its too wonky

There's a couple that look pretty good. I'm a fan of photon and alexandrite. mlmym is a throwback to old reddit.

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager https://github.com/diamondburned/slemmy https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon https://github.com/cr4yfish/nemmy https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym https://github.com/sheodox/alexandrite

Obviously not a requirement, but for those who are interested it is here. It'll also be on the sidebar.

I've contemplated potentially making a mastodon or firefish instance as well eventually but I dunno

I've seen other instances do this, so I figured I might as well too. Right now the instance is hosted on a relatively medium sized VPS with object storage. Lemmy uses very little resources, so I run some personal stuff on the server as well (like a screenshot hoster, blog, etc) but if I need to upgrade I can eventually.

VPS: $13.99

Object storage: as of right now it is $2.20 (and growing, slowly but surely)

I'm not opposed to donations, but it's not required. The biggest cost is likely going to be object storage more and more.

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I'm gonna be using the link attached, it basically pulls top communities across different instances as they appear in their top feeds.

What instances should I try to pull from?

It's really upsetting to watch but the admin over there has gone MIA and exploding-heads (a fascist instance thats defederated here as well) has set up shop to explicitly spread stuff across the federation. Just straight up horrific bigotry. I hope the admin over there comes back and cleans house. For now, I aint dealing with that.

Switched the default image saving to webp instead of whatever format it pleased so itll save a lot of space 😀

Let's see if lemmy is actually able to do that now, or if its gonna be a pain in the ass to do 🙄

!literature@beehaw.org

!books@lemmy.world

!audiobooks@lemmy.ml

!bookclub@lemmy.world

!library_haul@lemmy.world

Feel free to click on all to see some posts from communities that are federated.

What is this place???

This is a lemmy instance I decided to make with a focus on books and writers (and anyone else wanting a smaller instance). I also am on the team of a rather large lemmy instance, but I wanted to have a space where I could post and just generally "exist" on that's a little smaller and focused on my niche interests (such as reading)

What is lemmy?

Lemmy is a decentralized platform that serves as an alternative to reddit, it functions in a similar way to older bulletin boards/usenet or email. It can get complicated to explain, but all you really need to know is that by using this instance you can access pretty much the rest of lemmy with ease and others can see posts and topics in communities here. Feel free to take a peek in the all tab, I've already federated with some pretty large communities.

Defederation

Much like with email you have spam filters that different providers use to block bad stuff, defederation serves to exist kind of like that. I only defederate from explicitly hateful or generally toxic instances. There's only a few on lemmy that are also pretty much defederated en masse, but I did migrate a list over from mastodon since sometimes mastodon content can migrate over between lemmy (it's glitchy though). I did defederate with the porn communities, and it's mainly because their communities can clog up all really fast with how lemmy functions right now.

General Rules

If I need to elaborate the rules further, I will but for the most part just generally don't be a jerk and it'll be fine.

Finding new communities

If you don't see anything that really interests you in /all, thats ok! Go to lemmyverse.net/communities and find a link to what communities look interesting and copy and paste the link into the search bar. Be patient, maybe click it more than once and it'll start to federate. If you need any help finding stuff, just ask :)

Community Creation

If you want a community here, don't hesitate to ask and I can make it for you!