I've been getting into self hosting, the fediverse, and federated blogging. I contacted freaking nomads and they suggested that I write about my experiences, so here it is! I hope you enjoy.

Comments aren't fully federated from the blog site, so I'm using mastodon as well.

Excuse the off-topic nature of this post but I am keen to see non-Reddit online communities succeed and wondered if others feel similarly.

Lemmy.ml was unfortunately a widely shared instance for Reddit migrants and became massively oversubscribed by users and new communities. I for one joined up here before I fully understood the nature of the Fediverse.

What I have noticed (and is widely reported elsewhere) is that lemmy.ml isn’t federating properly with other instances, likely due to overload. The result is that users from other instances are missing huge chunks of comments or even entire posts from lemmy.ml based communities such as this one. Subscribe requests sit at pending perpetually. The result is a big barrier of entry to the community. The issue appears two way which communities form other instances not federating properly to lemmy.ml and lemmy.ml communities not federating properly to other instances.

Seeing this I recently created a new account on a different, quieter in

Perhaps I am missing something but I have accounts on lemmy.ml and kbin.social. Both accounts follow the same communities/magazines that span lemmy and kbin instances but I cannot find this community on kbin when I search. kbin.social has its own digitalnomad magazine that shows up but it is dead. Can anyone give me any pointers here? Am I missing something?

During your nomadic travels, where have you really enjoyed living and why aren't you home back yet ?