That's a great way to attract stalkers.
If I still need to run a bouncer to get history scrollback, then no, I will not consider IRC.
Setting up a Lemmy server outside of the golden path of using the Ansible template is extremely difficult. I do this professionally and I couldn't get federation working properly when running Lemmy on my Kubernetes instance.
Figuring out why federation is failing is very, very hard.
Lemmy requires a lot of resources to run. You need a VPS that's at least $20/mo to work adequately under any load. Disk storage requirements for the DB are also rather high.
Lemmy 0.18.2 has some horrendous N+1 DB calls, e.g. one query per language (173 of them) when you create a new community. This hamstrings databases that are not colocated onto the same machine, e.g. neon.tech's hosted pg db. I expect this will improve with time as the codebase matures, yet...
Instance administration tools are sorely lacking.
"It's a good filter" is often just an excuse to not improve the UX. You hear this way more from open-source technically-inclined folks than you do from folks who care about building a product that people want to use.
And there's not a great way to suggest "you might like..." based on your current subscriptions.
Email has the benefit of legacy. Lemmy does not.
I tried to solve this a tiny little bit by giving my own instance a clean and friendly frontpage, but I think I still need to do more work to attract people who aren't fedi-inclined.
Links between instances often don't work as intended, and there's no good way to redirect me from some-other-instance.pub/c/cool-community to my-instance.pub/c/[email protected] automatically.
Highly recommended! That's how I did my last trip. It was so nice to be able to hop onto a metro train and get going without having to drag my luggage too. Where are you thinking of going?
Thanks for the clear and concise update. Best of luck with your future migrations.
Thanks, I’ll try it out!