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Self-hosting is a very individual journey - everyone wants different things and finds they own way to meet their own requirements. So there isn't really one guide that covers everything.

Anyway, as a general road map:

Create a Virtual Machine on your PC. Install Linux inside the VM.
Play around in the VM to learn Linux basics. When you break the OS you can just wipe the VM and reinstall.
In the VM, try some docker containers until you're comfortable-ish with docker.
Maybe try Yunohost in the VM. You might find Yunohost saves you a lot of time and hassle.
Get hardware suitable for your goals.
Install Linux, configure networking and docker containers on real hardware.

I believe I've probably solved this now but it relies on other instances upgrading to the latest code which could take a few days.

I've just tweaked PieFed to make the images in comments display the same size they do in Lemmy.

If you've ever spent 10 minutes using an AI agent, you'd know that there's no way to predict how many tokens it's going to use before you give it a task. It can be $0.20 worth sometimes or $20 other times. Or anything, really.

It's only after watching it churn away for a few minutes that you can assume it's gotten stuck and have the option of pulling the plug before the bill gets run up too high. But you need to watch it like a hawk and you need to be the one paying the bill otherwise you're not going to care (e.g. workers using AI at work aren't paying for it, their company is).

Taken in aggregate across a month, that unpredictability might average out or it might explode.

Thanks for your kind words, despite our differences on this.

I get that people want to show support and encourage each other. There's a point, though, where it gets indiscriminate and wasteful.

In my analysis of voting patterns I think it's pretty clear that this intervention only impacts a tiny number of people and that the quota level is set so that 99.98% of people (or 98% if you ignore the less-engaged users (why, tho?)) will almost never use up their quota.

You're in that 0.02% so it feels different for you.

There are a ton of other ways to support the fediverse. Find interesting content to post, write nice comments, moderate some communities, improve the docs for Lemmy, translate the UI, report a bug in the issue tracker, report spammers, spread the word on mainstream social media, donate money, and so on. Get creative.

I love that a joke candidate has more chance of beating Farage than a real one.

I would love it even more if real candidates had a chance of beating Farage but let's be realistic about the state of UK politics. I'll take my love where I can get it.

There is probably a way that PieFed can decline votes from client apps that doesn't wreck them! I'll look into that.

There is no list but if you post in !piefed_meta@piefed.social asking for instances like that then maybe some will volunteer to host you.

I'm not seeing a lot of images in comments. Can you link me to some examples?

You can hide comment images by using this custom css:

.comment_body img { display: none; }

Replying to this post with an AI slop comment takes some balls, mate

No obvious signs, nope. It wasn't until I started using it in earnest that I got suspicious and then when trying to work on the code it became very clear.

Listen more, talk less. Ask better questions.

There's a bug in PieFed. Take it easy.

Well, yeah. There are lots of reasons. But basic self-interest is something we can all agree on.

Or reply to any Mastodon post with @piefed_meta@piefed.social ^^^ and that puts the parent into the community.

Oh!

Maybe we can use the quote boost feature in Mastodon - you'd @ the community in your quote boost and the original post would go into the community (PieFed would need some more code written for this, it won't work at present).

I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, wrote a few issues describing some showstopping bugs, and since then there's been absolutely no activity from the creator.

That's fine, they are under no obligation to work for free. But I wouldn't have installed it if I knew it was abandonware.

Oooo, this is harder than it looks.

In Mastodon you can @ mention any community in the body of the post and that should do it.

e.g. @piefed_meta@piefed.social

Yep, seen em. Thanks :)

The train that crosses Siberia takes 4 days to cross it, running 24 hours a day (with 30 min stops once or twice a day).