The downvote isn’t federated.

I disagree, but it sounds like lemm.ee will be a better fit for you, and that’s the beauty of the fediverse 👍

Yes, you will have to be sure to join an instance aligned with your values on moderation.

Comments are pushed out by the community’s server, they’re not pulled in by yours. So if you’re missing comments from communities hosted on lemmy.ml for example, it may be that lemmy.ml is overloaded and not sending out comments to the fediverse properly.

The other common issue with missing comments and posts is misconfigured language settings in your profile. You need to make sure at least Undefined and English are both selected, lots of people only have English selected which will make a lot of posts hidden.

lemmy.ml has a lot of federation issues unfortunately (uptime issues in general, actually). There’s not much that can be done until their server is fixed, and yes I agree it’s very annoying, but they’re working on it 👍

Is it because of fees or a one time tip jar feature?

Both. Thanks for your support! I should check out Liberapay again though.

I prefer the browser to apps personally, this is actually one of the main reasons I like Lemmy over Reddit and it’s unusable mobile view. You’ll find plenty of mobile app users here too and it sounds like it works fine, I’ll just caution that some (all?) of them sound like they’re feature-incomplete, so if you ever think something is missing from Lemmy, double-check on the website first, because it might just not be added to the app yet.

Yeah. The subscriber count it shows is the number of subscribers on your local instance, in this case lemmy.one (which would of course be 0 since it was just discovered)

The only way to see the true subscriber count at the moment is by looking on the instance where the community is hosted.

I do think that the Docker images are available for ARM, it’s just the automatic Ansible scripts which might not support it IIRC, so if you’re comfortable with messing with it a bit I think you can do it. Otherwise yeah a small VPS should also work fine.

Welcome!

• No, we do not do any curation. You can curate the feed yourself by subscribing to communities you’re interested in, and changing the front page from “All” to “Subscribed” (you can make Subscribed your default view in your settings: https://lemmy.one/settings)

• Yes

• https://join-lemmy.org/instances is the only list I’m aware of.

• The requirements are not high, although I’m not sure whether ARM is officially supported, so YMMV with an Orange Pi 5.

• No

You can’t see them if nobody here has subscribed to them yet, but if you paste the URL for those communities in https://lemmy.one/search, they’ll show up.

There should be no problem joining their communities, just paste the URL for any of them into the box on https://lemmy.one/search

No we have nothing to do with r/privacy :)

Is there a program you have in mind which can do this automatic reposting? I’m not aware of a Lemmy feature which does this.

That should work too, but maybe you need an ! at the beginning, like !community@instance.tld

Click the copy icon to the right of the community name on the search tool, then go to https://lemmy.one/search and paste in the URL it copied, and the community should show up. If it doesn’t immediately show up: wait 30 seconds, refresh the search page, and try again, and then it will work.

I think that this is a good idea, however I do not have the moderation capacity to do this unfortunately, and the Privacy Guides team is not interested in running a general “privacy” community as opposed to just !privacyguides@lemmy.one for numerous reasons.

In an ideal world, the mods of r/privacy would be interested in setting up shop on Lemmy.one or their own instance, and this is an idea I’ve floated by them since we do talk, but I can’t force them to be as excited about the fediverse as I am :)

Did you find !unitedkingdom@lemmy.ml?

Good question, yes, it should be renamed to “default sort type” IMO, because it just sets the default for these sorting settings on the homepage:

It doesn’t completely hide non-local posts if you have “local” selected, because as you noted each community has this interface available anyways :)

Welcome! Feel free to ask if you have any questions about anything :)