I removed myself as a moderator and left Reddit.

Many are waiting for their data takeout requests to complete before doing the same. And to follow up with GDPR requests/GDPR deletion requests.

All to improve their quarter numbers pre-IPO.

Luckily GDPR deletion requests don't care about how they are implemented. And failures to comply en masse tends to get really expensive.

That has already happened in the last years.

EU's GDPR officers will be very interested in Reddit's documented inability to delete EU Reddit users' personal data.

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.

Too late for that. Technology has been redefined to mean whatever Si valley IT tech bros are up to.

I recommend to unsub and build topical communities.

Evidence for your claims, please.

Lemmy now has enough early adopters to be sustainable. And that's the only thing that matters. As to Reddit, my account there is 17+ years old but I was there since the beginning. The early years were amazing but in the last half decade or so it was a visibly dying platform. We should be thankful that its current leadership has now put it out of its misery.

If you're not going to immediately defederate from Meta instances the Fediverse baby will be strangled in the crib.

Level fines and collect them.

Garbage reports like that do a lot of damage. Fraction of fossil in the primary energy use is nearly constant, and net zero is merely a greenwashing scam.

Lineage OS user. Don't care.

VPN tunnels don't magically become transparent when packets pass UK fiber and routers. And legislation doesn't translate well into which software people are allowed to run, for endpoints in UK. They can try to become North Korea of course, good luck with that.

How do you get Pegasus onto LineageOS or GrapheneOS? Especially on hardware with modem isolation?

Paywalled.

Such people probably have WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok already. A liitle extra cancer doesn't matter to them.

I recommend mirroring whole /r/ subs to /c/ communities using automated tools. I don't need to see Reddit content in /c/reddit -- at all.

Considering the TikTok user demographics, you'd do better without its search results.

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've been using it since the early days and ran relays and exits. It's good for anonymity against your ISP, advertisers and lesser adversaries than being targeted by TLAs. Can be a bit slow. Make sure to use encryption to protect against bad exit nodes.

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.

You absolutely should be. If Mastodon instances will start federating with Meta I will defederate them. And move my accounts from any instance that federates with them.

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

There is also neuroscience!neuroscience@lemmy.world

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

EdgeRouter is proprietary but minimal. You can also look at Opnsense running on a used thin client off ebay.

We are using a Garmin in our Mitsubishi ASX rather than the built-in navi, probably a custom TomTom. Bluetooth is largely useless and buggy.

I would have bought a used Lada if it was just for me.

If it's an EV I'd much prefer an open source platform. No such things, so far.

My account is 16+ year old and has 300 k combined karma. I will be sure to contact my data protection officer to complain. Reddit needs an audit to document they wipe the db properly, and the data is gone from backups. Not just my data, anything they got on me.

TLAs, LEOs and criminals are both Tor end users and have an interest in attacking Tor users.

Everybody has the resources to run Tor relays and even exits, though the latter can become a massive legal nuisance. Servers are cheap. Read the Tor mailing list archives.

As to 'mostly used by hackers and pedos', please provide the evidence. Factual one, not non-sequiturs based on faulty assumptions.

Time for a massive fine from the EU. Something large enough to bankrupt them.

Unfortunately no old cloud servers or switches on ebay. As such availability of used hardware is more limited in future.

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

The most thorough option is running your own instance. Most won't do this, but you can.

When Reddit was open source you could set up your instance. But unmaintained, and without federation.

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

Does ecosystem carrying capacity overshoot ring a bell? Individual footprint matters, especially if massively oversized.

Lemmy.ml announced proactive defederation from Threads, so you can donate to direct development.

We don't care about most users, if they insist to ignore the fire alarms.

Please do not assume to know every user's needs.