I fully supported the 3 day /r/ BLACKOUTs by many sub-reddits earlier this week, and I fully support the INDEFINITE blackouts that some sub-reddits have now committed to.

I'm just a /r/ user and have kept my account because of the vast amounts of information I find useful at Reddit. Its one of the only social media's that I still use... I left Discord for Matrix when they were thinking about selling to Microsoft... I left [personal] Facebook when they switched to Meta (way overdue!)... and I continue to choose privacy and shun big tech - I am leaving Reddit.

While I'm happy that there are now de-centralized alternatives, it is completely Reddit's fault - they finally chose the mighty $$$ over the user; its users ARE the product, just like every other big-tech social media corporation... its a sad time for Reddit.

I hope that more large sub-reddits choose to BLACKOUT as I thi

I've been working with the two suggested LemmyNet installation methods; Docker and Ansible. Neither are too wild of a setup, but they aren't plug and play docker-compose-like, either.

I want to run a LemmyNet on a subdomain; lemmy.domain.com, and use nginx-proxy-manager to point traffic in the right direction, but it will be on the same local IP... some port changes will need to be made.

Is anyone running their own instances? Have suggestions or tips with things that helped you lean up a lemmy.subnet?

Cheers!!

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What is a BBS?

A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through public message boards and sometimes via direct chatting. In the early 1980s, message networks such as FidoNet were developed to provide services such as NetMail, which is similar to internet-based email.

Back in the early 90s I was turned on to the PC MS-DOS community. It was a fun time of WordPerfect 5.0, Lotus 1-2-3 and some text and light graphical games that came around the way... Tapper, Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 and other worthy softwarez; but things got real when I learned that you could dial-up to other computers, and bulletin board systems, to reach a world beyond your monitor. In the Uni