There are instances that bump up the max length. The word you’re generally looking for is “glitch” (instances will say they’re running “the glitch fork” or “glitch edition” or will have version numbers ending in +glitch, which has a few features on top of regular Mastodon), although some regular Mastodon instances may also increase the char count the hard way.

Alternatively, Firefish/Misskey by default has ~3000 characters but it’s a completely different experience altogether (although it still federates with Mastodon (like kbin and Lemmy)). I’m not exactly sure on how Akkoma instances are usually set up but that’s worth taking a peek as well.

Of course this doesn’t address the politics stuff but that’s more on you to curate your own experience.

Learn about reverse proxies such as Nginx or Caddy. The various selfhosted communities on Lemmy should be able to help with your questions. That’ll fix the port conflict problem. (Though I recommend wiping your Lemmy DB and starting from scratch when changing domains. Federation is really finicky in situations like that)

My second recommendation would be to use blocklists to deny the crap parts as opposed to allowlisting as that will impact your view of the threadiverse. (Which by itself isn’t a bad thing, but is the wrong tool for the job in most cases I’ve seen people asking about it)

There are instances that disable downvotes, you may want to migrate to one that does. https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances#all-lemmy-instances has a column that indicates if an instance has them turned on or off.

my predictions are:

• explicit freeze-peach a la exploding heads (the so-called “alt fedi” over on mastodon)
• reddit-style free-for-all with just enough moderation to not be voat 2 (the current default of the threadiverse)
• strictly moderated “traditional fediverse with proper groups”
• porn

of course there will be parts that overlap, but i absolutely expect a split to occur between the “reddit migratees” and “people who want a mastodon with threading” groups, if the second half hasn’t given up on the threadiverse and returned to mastodon already

the piracy drama was good actually because most of the reasonable people from .world will move to smaller instances (and take their communities with them) which will make it easier to block .world and take out a huge chunk of Redditors™ in one fell swoop

the problem is freeze peachers are also moving away from .world onto the same “smaller” instances.

we need more instances with stricter moderation, which is way easier said than done

it is avoidable (or at least it can be slowed down enough to be manageable) if there is a pre-existing culture. lemmy simply didn’t have one beyond a vague foss/privacy focus and whatever’s going on over at lemmygrad, so the reddit migration brought over a lot of people who then set it up to be exactly like what they were used to (being reddit).

if you go look at mastodon (or the microblogging fedi in general) for example, the biggest instances still have their fair share of “twitteriness”, but as you get to the smaller, tigher knit, and stricter moderated instances, you’ll see a culture that’s significantly more laid back (and yes, very gay).

i think what’s happening is that the big instances act as a “firewall” of sorts. catching the people who just want a twitter 2. and the people who want more and vibe with the smaller fedi culture will then self-select and migrate out into the smaller instances after realizing all the cool people (and in lemmy’s case, communities) they follow are on those smaller instances and all the interaction they get on the large instances are boring reply guys (or worse, actual bigots that go unmoderated because no large instance can keep up with moderation and .world has inadvertently doomed itself even if it has not realized it yet)

over time i expect lemmy to have it’s own share of these tight knit instances - and as the hype dies down and the trolls start getting bored, communities start migrating, moderation tools improve, and yes - the occasional defederations that will inevitably happen - .world and it’s ilk will be the reddit 2 some people want to have (with the good and the bad), while a different, unique, culture will slowly but surely form across instances that intentionally keep themselves smaller and more focused. and of course you’d be able to talk across communities in these separate “sides” of the threadiverse thanks to federation.

hell, i’d say it’s already getting started.

you can’t “follow hashtags” like in mastodon, but you can make an antenna with the hashtags (or keywords) you want to follow.

the only real downside is that it doesn’t show up on your main timeline. you have to explicitly open the antenna’s timeline to look for those posts.

tbf the site seems to just be a find+replace of the Calckey site. i assume they’re working on more important things (like migrating calckey.social to firefish.social, which is gonna be difficult considering activitypub’s fragileness) before fixing up the site.

Right now I’m using a custom ROM, ~10 magisk modules, 2 Xposed modules and a handful of other things that require root… My phone is almost 5 years old and I am on the latest Android version with no signs of community support stopping. Half my apps are open source, and the paid, proprietary ones are actually affordable hobby projects (and not VC backed startups) with one time payments and worth the price.

I can load up a non-Android Linux distro on it and everything except the camera will work. Mainline kernel, too.

And I didn’t need to take out a loan to buy it.

You write a book telling people how to be successful.

Why pretend to be a cat when you can be the cat?

Not by itself, no.

My current replacements for reddit are:

1. A kbin account for serious-posting
2. This Lemmy account for the shitposting (and for communities on lemmy.ml which blanket bans all kbin instances)
3. Tildes.net for the extra-serious-posting
4. (Eventually) an RSS reader
5. Libreddit and a redirector extension for search results

I personally prefer to keep my shitposting from my serious-posting and I also wanted to see what kbin was like, so it kinda worked out well enough (aside from .ml)