hawkwind

So if I’m understanding this right, the bot account you create for this is the one subscribing to every community, so it’s known to the local system, right?

Yes

As long as I’m not mixing up my main account and my bot account, there should be no observable change on my own account?

Correct, I have it functioning this way and it works great.

How is storage affected on this? If the bot account is subscribing to a number of communities across the fediverse, all that remote content is going to take up quite a bit of space, no?

It does and it will continue to grow. This not not something the tool takes care of, not cleaning up anything old or stale. Space management and "unfollow" is on the roadmap! Currently I can only speak for myself and it is EVERYTHING and it is about 0.25 GB / day of database, and 6-10 GB / day of images.

And will 2FA be supported at any point?

Not on the roadmap. I don't know how api calls in general work with 2fa since I have not tested or enabled it on my instance. :( Sorry.

EDIT: Changed database/pictures ratio after double checking actual numbers and not looking at used filesystem. :(

Not really. If it worked before, it should work the same, just has more options for control and granularity.

I don't. I haven't looked yet either because I haven't crossed that bridge. I think there were some admins on matrix chatting about it though. It will become an issue for large instances like near term, so I suspect someone will tackle it very soon, if they haven't already.

The Sleepy Gary starter pack.

Exactly.

They look like average size dictators to me.

I don’t think you’ll get a hard requirement for that. Anecdotally, I can say you’ll be fine.

Dispel some misconception and help you make the choice: I run an instance that gets updates from everywhere and (because of the way activitypub works) it’s a stream of < 0.5 mbit average. Yes, that could double for every doubling of users, but it’s a far cry from the overwhelming overload of data people think is being federated.

One could argue that there is actually less transparency from an admin than there is from a corporation. An admin has complete control over an instance and zero oversight if they want to be shitty without being caught. Ideally the “hive mind” would weed this out and defederation IS a tool to deal with it, but the control argument can go both ways. In all cases we start by trusting the controller is acting in our best interests and need ways of handling things when trust is broken. Defederation, as the sole tool, might be too heavy handed.

I think it’s more like the instances are countries, admins are governments, and defederation is embargo. Information and influence are the resources. Eventually, you’ll have instances that keep to themselves and others that throw their weight around regardless of any real world political alignment.

The ol’ “you know not of what you speak,” syndrome. Know-it-all’s with an axe to grind are the minority, but man, are they disruptive.

I mean someone from the “outside” might go to lemmy.world and see a page full of poop and beans and argue the same thing. Just saying.