I know this is generally the case with lawyers getting all the settlement money, but I think due to people not signing up I actually recently got a $200 cheque from the Yahoo data breach settlement in the mail lol

Aren’t they lying? Or maybe they stepped it back from the horrible reception they got lol. Or maybe it was all just a big calculated move to get people to log into Ubisoft again and possibly buy more games.

True, but we’re less than a year away from the next Ubuntu LTS which would have that fixed anyway I believe.

Yeah, I’ve heard of people using cron jobs to automatically clean activity older than 3 days.

I’m not sure what can be done about image staking up a lot of space, I imagine that’ll take up a ton of space after a while. Not sure how that could be cleaned up safely.

I wanna look into self-hosting my own Lemmy instance some time. Once I have more time to figure it out with my home network local server w/ public cloud VPS OpenVPN server setup (likely with Docker containers too) I’ll take a look into it. You’re right, it’ll likely be fun and right up my alley too.

I have been using Linux on desktop full time since 2017 so this is really cool to see the populairty growth.

Does Lemmy automatically grab all content from all federated servers, or does it only grab the content from communities you (and any other users on the instance) are subscribed to/are actively being visited?

I’m not so sure it does copy all content in the background.

My instance will be for me only, I will be the only person on it and it will be closed for registrations. I won’t be responsible for anyone else’s data on my instance, nothing for me to be concerned about.

By control, I mean I can back up my data and ensure my comments, subscribed communities, messages, etc are all available to me no matter what, I don’t have to rely on some external third-party managing it for me.

I wanna self-host my own instance so I have more control over my data.

Ooh, that’s a really good idea, I need a federation helper bot/account when I start self-hosting a Lemmy instance!

It is? TIL, that’s pretty interesting.

Awesome, that was just as straightforward as I was hoping it was, thanks! I am more familiar with MySQL as I haven’t used Postgres a ton but SQL is SQL after all lol

Could you share the cron/script you use to do this? I’m interested in hosting my own Lemmy at some point, and having a script for that cleanup would be hugely helpful for me.

The sad part is reddit actually used to be open-source. They’ve become what they wanted to destroy. Sad times.

Somehow I feel like they won’t care, those reports probably go directly into the bin.

And thanks for reminding me to do the same! It’s crazy how much worse the official app is - it should be the best Reddit app, not the worst.

I have a cottage, so I rsync to my computer there, and I also have a computer and Synology NAS there for further backups. If I end up selling the cottage though… I’m not sure lol. I don’t really have anything too too irreplaceable honestly outside of stuff I already backup to multiple cloud backups too.

What I do on mine is rent a cheap VPS with unlimited bandwidth, I run OpenVPN server on that VPS using Nyr’s openvpn-install script and then on my local seedbox server I connect to my OpenVPN server. I have qbittorrent-nox listening on the tun0 interface, and then on my OpenVPN server VPS I have an iptables prerouting rule to route traffic from the inbound torrent port to my local seedbox server, essentially port-forwarding over the VPN using the iptables prerouting DNAT rule. I also only seed on private trackers, since I don’t use public trackers.

It’s a very nice setup, I’d recommend it. I might do a full write-up some time about it.

Wow, I’ll definitely look into this, thanks! Even if I don’t use it, it still may be useful just reading through it.