early_riser

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up Cloudflare tunnels and tried setting one up. Some things future readers may want to know:

  1. You have to set Cloudflare as your domain’s authoritative nameservers.
  2. You need to set up an account (not a problem) but also have to register a payment method, even for the free tier (no me gusta).
  3. Regarding NodeBB specifically, if you set up a tunnel, you can access the forum, even over HTTPS, but it fails when you try to log in. A few minutes of searching leads me to believe it has something to do with web sockets, and the solution requires you to partially expose your IP address, defeating the principle purpose for me to use cloudflare in the first place.
• Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨55⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to prevent Bambu A1 mini from updating firmware?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, remote printing and monitoring are nice features, which would be a pity to lose.

  I don’t see an easy way to accomplish this independent of Bambu’s servers, especially if you use the handy app on your phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to prevent Bambu A1 mini from updating firmware?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly harder: add exceptions for bambus servers in your routers firewall so that requests to that domain are blocked

  I assigned a static IP address to my A1 mini in my router, and made a firewall rule preventing all traffic originating from that IP from going to the internet. The printer is also in LAN only mode, but I periodically have to reconnect it to Bambu studio which is annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On Lemmy you can see (and search) a list of all the activity from every instance federated to your home instance. Looking at Ibis, which a few posters have mentioned on this thread, it has a discover page with a list of federated instances and articles on those instances. The current format is hardly scalable, but it’s a start.

  But, as I said before, the issue is less about discoverability and more about editing. Just like I can post in this thread even though I’m on a different instance, you can edit an article on one instance even though you’re on another. The alternative as used by Wikipedia, is to allow anyone, account or not, to edit. Requiring someone to have an account on a federated instance would mitigate a fair amount of spam and ease moderation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to discoverability, I’d say it provides a happy medium between letting every rando with an IP address edit a page and requiring account creation. Part of the point of the fediverse is to have (almost) everything in one place under a single account while still keeping things decentralized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t doubt it, though MW seems hard to manage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks interesting.

  Seems like it’s still early days yet, but are there plans to add things like namespaces and categories?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not thinking of a single distributed wiki, but something more like Fandom where you can edit pages on other wikis that are federated to yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy hosting isn’t quite the issue. Dokuwiki is trivial to self host. What I’d like something that’s a happy medium between requiring account creation to edit pages and letting literally every rando with an IP address go to town.

• Federated wiki software?
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨48⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to see a federated, self hostable forum platform. I believe NodeBB is implementing or has implemented activitypub, but while it’s open source it seems even less of a turnkey solution than Lemmy or Mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting two points from the article. One is addressed handily by the Fediverse, the other is not.

  First the centralized (I prefer to say “urbanized”) nature of social media means a handful of companies control all the conversations. The Fediverse is a decent (though not perfect) solution to that problem, and I think everyone on here knows that.

  However, the article also talks about the problems with the format of social media, not just who’s hosting the platform. On traditional forums, conversations can last for years, but on Reddit, Discord, etc. new topics quickly bury old ones, no matter how lively those old topics are. Sure, you can choose to sort by “last comment” which replicates the traditional forum presentation with topic bumping, but it’s not the default, even on Lemmy, so 90% of people won’t bother.