This is the biggest design flaw of lemmy.

Instances should host separate content, and aggregation of separate instances should be up the client.

Instead we got the worst of all worlds. It means that lemmy can never truly scale performance wise or survive legal wise.

Hopefully they solve it in some way, but I don’t see how unless they do the above and totally remove cross instance caching

Most antivirus software are just root level tools to harvest your data, that pretend to help

None of that was true 4 years ago. Or 10 years ago. Or 15 years ago. You are a potato.