In the country I live I can literally go to jail if I voice opinions other than “unprovoked Russian aggressive attack”. Presumably the more timid local Lemmy instance owners would fear liability.

Not exactly a new user. My lemmy.ml account is three years old.

Time to get serious about running my own instance. I now have to wonder what kind of political opinion I might voice which could make the instance operators liable. This is not tolerable long-term.

Happily, I’m abnormal that way. I also dabble in PV DIY. Building houses from scratch, no. Servicing a modern car is also not worth it. Sadly, no open source EVs yet available.

HA for personal MTA is way overkill, just run a second instance with higher MX record value. Antispam is a given, backups are snapshots, maintenance is just system updates. Of course, you could just run an appliance which does it all for you. I’d say it’s way easier than in 1990s.

Email in the 1990s and email in 2020s is the same if you’re running your own MTA.

Your profile contains your post history to many of your communities.

I’m pointing out that if you’re going to the trouble of hosting your own instance you could as well allow some convenient number of random users to register. It would erase most of your signal and help distribute the load and exposure to specific legal compartments.

Your profile is also public. An instance with few 10 subscribers erases much of the information.

Load leveling. Specific policies. More control and performance, if it’s your own instance.

Encrypted file systems requiring secrets at mount time can make seizing physical servers harder. It’s more difficult with the cloud hosters, since these likely have an API for law enforcement.

I presume federation does not propagate diagnostics available in the instance logs. We definitely need privacy-hardening docs for running Lemmy instances.

It should be not part of Lemmy’s server side code. Actually even integrating current image support is ill advised. It should have been an optional microservice.

All is a good place to find leads for subscribed. Browsing communities seemed to be limited to the instance.

Run your own instance and federate with everybody.

I was on Reddit since the beginning. It was mailing lists before and Usenet in the 1990s.

Lemmy now is how early Reddit used to be, only more jaded.

Usenet and mailing lists always had threaded view.

With Lemmy and an open source app on an open source platform you’re owning the means of production. We don’t need mass adoption, just enough users with a higher level of engagement. We’re now there, or close.

As long as you do it on your subscribed communities. With the volume going up time to become more focused: /c/technology noise level is getting too high.

I’m on LineageOS sans gapps, so not even Google Play available. If it’s not open source, it’s not there.

With latest updates with app and server-side it’s a lot more stable now. It will be weeks to months until the infrastructure can absorb new users.