Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

  • Geronimo Wenja@agora.nop.chat
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    This would make sense to me - I assume it’s the equivalent of a single user seeing basically everything on a given community once, vs loading it from DB (or at least cache) for every request for each new individual user. Every time I load the front page on my server, it’s just fetching stuff from my own instance, right?

    EDIT: Looks like it does load things from other servers, but only images. Everything else comes from my own instance.

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      I’m considering hosting my own instance. Can you point me to where i can get started? I’m a noob.

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        You’ll want to start here, but it depends how comfortable you are with self-hosting as to whether it’ll be a walk in the park. I had good luck with it, but I self host a lot of stuff and know what kinds of pitfalls there are. The docs aren’t totally up to par - I might take a look at contributing to improving them - so you may need to do some searching around if you have problems. There’s a Lemmy Support community on lemmy.ml you could check out too.

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          Right-on, thanks! It helps just to have a little direction—even if imperfect. I usually seek out multiple sources, anyway.