Last week this instance decided out of nowhere that it deserves a break and vanished.
After multiple attempts of troubleshooting, I was about to put up a static html to announce the move away from “the broken ass lemmy”, when i figured out the real problem (nginx config was changed for some reason and no longer correct).
That being said, I still would like to move away from lemmy. At the time of setup, it was the closest to a reddit replacement we had available but by now nostr has matured a lot and it would be in everyones best interest to start building a community on there instead of a federated platform like lemmy on which you lose your entire online presence when the instance goes down.
If you have any suggestions on what specific nostr frontend we should host here on monero.town, please feel free to share them!
Personally id like to deploy an instance of https://monstr.land/ but sadly it is currently not FOSS.
I noticed the site was down, and I was very sad :(
Thanks for your work. Lemmy is a piece of shit to host and moderate, but is there really a better option in 2025?
I definitely think federated is the best solution. Specifically ActivityPub. Is nostr not federated?
What’s the state of SubLinks and PyFedi?
Nostr works via multiple different relays, which makes it way more decentralized than a federated system. This explains it pretty well: https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a
I still call it federated because it’s not P2P (plus other factors, like the “relays” don’t actually relay to each other afaik)
But it’s definitely less centralized than fediverse