Defederating was the right call. The_Donald is being hosted on sh.itjust.works.
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The admin of sh.itjust.works has been approached but as of yet has failed to reply to concerned Lemmy users. I’m glad Beehaw admins look out for us by cutting off instances that host communities like this.
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I don't care to follow The_Donald, but I'd rather choose what communities I can participate in than have an instance decide for me.
You can always join a smaller instance that isn’t defederating (as long as other instances you care about don’t feel like defederating yours).
Self hosted 4 lyfe! Happy to answer questions and get a server started up for you if interested.
What is your resource utilization like? I know larger instances obv have their own quirks but one of my unknowns is what specs for the server.
I'm also curious about disk space. I've seen people self hosting say their usage grows about 500M per day (but no mention on the amount of communities they actively federate) which would fill up my Hetzner box in about a few months. Having never adminned Lemmy, is there some sort of content deletion job that removes stuff after X amount of days?
Lastly, from what I understand the federated tab only shows stuff from instances (or is it down to the community level?) where at least 1 user in your home instance is subscribed. Did you just have to go out and browse communities you're interested in and follow them yourself? Or maybe with an alt account?