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Alternate headline: Users test using only YouTube ReVanced to bypass this new system

Don't forget to edit all your comments first to say [removed] or [moving to lemmy.world]

Otherwise all your old comments stay on the site but with the username of [deleted]. Posts too.

If you need a tool to do this for you automatically, I think I've heard of people using Shreddit. But there are likely a few options.

Plot twist: Johan was a Nintendo eShop developer

• I can build my own ROM and add any tweaks I want to the source
• Full filesystem access, not the circus act iOS is running with their "file management"
• I can run any browser I want, download any file I want
• I can sideload any app I want, and install open source apps from F-Droid
• I can use projects like ReVanced to install modified apps effortlessly, and don't have to go through the AltStore/Apple Developer BS to install simple things like uYou
• I can entirely replace my home screen with a different launcher app if I wanted to

I did. The benefits as I see them:

• I can still use Lemmy if the instance I would have used as my "home instance" ever went down.
• Even if a public instance doesn't go down, all this extra load is making strange bugs surface that I don't encounter (I still have the live refresh bug everyone has, but not this one).
• I have full control over my account.
• If I ever want to get to customizing my UI later, I can.
• Content I create originates on my instance, and I have full control over it. I can't stop other instances from caching what I post publicly, but this still gives me more data governance.
• I can curate my "All" tab to only show stuff I actually want to see, instead of trying to figure out how to block communities (not sure if that's possible for regular users).
• I get a custom domain which I think is pretty neat.

How is it ephemeral? My Docker instance for Lemmy logs forever unless I manually clear the logs. My Caddy reverse proxy logs every request too. Both are stored to disk and I'm free to copy them out at any time. They'll keep increasing in size until I decide to clear them.

They're logged through the Docker engine, not the container. A malicious actor would require a sophisticated container breakout attack to even attempt to clear them. Those attacks are rare and highly publicized.

Alternatively, an attacker could try to find my real instance IP from behind Cloudflare (probably not going to happen), somehow bypass my provider's firewall which only allows SSH from my home IP (my home is more likely to be broken into than that), and then somehow defeat SSH authentication on top of both of those (quantum computers aren't quite there yet).

I'm having trouble seeing the risk you're concerned about.

Ahhhh, image posts are where your usage is going! Makes sense, my instance is just for my account and I don't submit anything. Your postgres size is more or less in line with where mine was at your uptime. I'm using Docker Compose so I'm only considering the size of the volumes in my metrics, not the image sizes or anything.

EDIT: Turns out I accidentally firewalled my pictrs service, it couldn't reach external sites to create thumbnails for external links. That's why my storage usage was so much lower. Whoops.

It's likely the Docker images, and maybe the Docker build cache if they built from source instead of using the Docker Hub image.

I've been up for about a day longer than OP, and my Lemmy data is still under 800MB. OP either included non Lemmy data in that math, or is subscribed to way more communities than me. My storage usage has been growing much faster today with all the extra activity, but I won't have to worry about storage space for about a month even at this rate.

And that's assuming Lemmy doesn't automatically prune old data. I'm not sure if it does or not. But if it doesn't, I imagine I'll see posts in about 2-3 weeks talking about Lemmy's storage needs and how to manage it as an instance admin.

EDIT: Turns out ~90% of my Lemmy data is just for debugging and not needed:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3103#issuecomment-1631643416

Yes, but lemmy.ml went down today, before the blackout, and way ahead of the API shutdown. It WILL go down again due to the load.

This might fragment the community, but a dedicated instance by a r/Piracy mod is better than relying on one that could go down at any moment. Eventually, people will just use the new one and it won't matter. I think this is a good call.

This is part of the reason I made my own instance. It's now my responsibility to keep my own account functioning, not someone else's. Anyone's server going down won't prevent me from using Lemmy or making comments.