Everywhere I look there are people advocating for defederation from this and that! Do you even understand what you’re suggesting? Do you get what’s the point of decentralized social media and activity pub?
This is supposed to be free and accessible for everyone. We all have brains and can decide who to interact with.
If meta or any other company manages to create a better product it’s just natural that people tend to use it. I won’t use it, you may not use it and it’s totally fine! It’s about having options. Also as Mastodon’s CEO pointed out there’s no privacy concern, everything stays on your instance.
Edit: after reading and responding to many comments, I should point out that I’m not against defederation in general. It’s a great feature if used properly. Problem is General Instances with open sign-ups and tens of thousands of users making decisions on par of users and deciding what they can and can not see.
If you have a niche or small community with shared and agreed upon values, defederating can be great. But I believe individual users are intelligent enough to choose.
it shouldn’t pummel your bandwidth from what i understand: your instance will receive all updates and data only from things you follow; not the entire fediverse!
think of it kind of like just reading everything posted to every magazine you subscribe to!
it’s text and a few images: a single youtube video is probably bigger than a day of your fediverse subs
… assumptions and educated guesses above :)
The problem comes from the 1000s of other instances that ping you to extract the content you’ve created.
I kind of wish there was a simple reference saying what the required resources are for just a single-user Mastodon & Lemmy instance. That’s really all I want. Will the 3GB of free RAM & few hundred GB of free SSD app-space on my NAS be enough?
(it probably exists… I just haven’t found it…)
I don’t think you’ll get a hard requirement for that. Anecdotally, I can say you’ll be fine.