Right now lemmy and like are still a bit rough since the spike coming from those leaving reddit happened so fast.

However, the development it picking up fast, since its a open source project, so in the coming weeks we'll see many new features, and see the platform improve really fast.

So I think it'll stick with it for a while, because it'll get better

I'm only just now learning more about federation, so I'm no expert.

Is your instance setup to use NTP? federation requires fairly accurate time from my understanding, and shared hosting normally drifts quite a bit, which might be where your "Header is expired" issue comes from. It could also have something to do with your instance not processing incoming federation stuffs fast enough I think?

There is a chat space at https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org with people that run their own instances, which might help answer these questions

Merging communities might be hard, but maybe redirecting a community to another instance? this would also allow people to move communities from one instance to another, which would allow large communities to have dedicated instances, or to consolidate related communities under the same instance.

Allowing communities to exist across multiple instances is going to be a nightmare now that I think about it, like how will moderation work? I can already see it becoming a new way to spam. Create your own lemmy instance, spam a post, and make it so that no one can delete it. It'll cause instances to disable open federation, which would mean we'll end up with only a few allowed instances

So based on my understanding, you'd need a public endpoint, and probably a domain name as well. So if the system you are using has a public ip, a domain, and is always online, then yes.

So technically yes, realistically no

Ah ok, thanks. Thats rather interesting. I wonder how they are going to address that.

I was curious to see what discovery was like. I'm wondering if anyone if working on a solution for that

Do I truly own my own data then? If I make a post, such as this, which is posted from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml, would my removal of the post on my instance remove it from lemmy.ml as well?

From my own observations, selfhosting bypasses issues the main sites like lemmy.ml and lemmy.world have with their sites.

I've seen both have some issues today already

There is already drama? Lol