Matt

Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it’s just the perfect type of game for myself.

Hard to say exactly what Mastodon does, but mastodon.social’s privacy policy should give you some direction in how they handle data: https://mastodon.social/privacy-policy

As mastodon.social is based in Germany, they will know about GDPR and have to follow it to the letter.

I only self-host a MediaWiki website at the moment, along with a PPSSPP adhoc server for said game that the wiki is related to. I want to self-host a lot more stuff, but storage space is expensive, and I don’t really want to leave things running at home all the time either as it will eat into my electricity bill.

Nextcloud and OnlyOffice are what I’m interested in next, and perhaps a Fediverse platform.

I can only answer a couple.

3. This is by design, due to how federation works. Federation is literally just:

• Instance A requests information from Instance B
• Instance B responds to the request and sends it back
• Instance A follows Instance B
• Instance B now federates all future posts to Instance A

There’s nothing more complicated to it, but it does mean that instances cannot know about other instances without being told, as there is no central location that instances connect to in order to find out about all other instances.

4. Only posts after subscribing are federated to an instance, it doesn’t backfill. An option for admins of an instance to request a backfill would not be a bad option though, but as time goes on, backfilling an entire community could take too much data on instances.

5. Issue with Lemmy.ml, although when you see Subscribe Pending, you tend to still see things in your feed.