Well, that’s what has always been mentioned, defederated from them, AFAIK there’s no way of blocking it completely from the fediverse, so if your instance’s admin wants they can decide to not block them and you can interact with meta.

If your instance defederates and you want to still see their activity then you can choose an instance which is still federated with them.

You can host your own instance to share your opinions.
Still don’t expect other instances for allowing content they don’t want to be federated with, so you might have where to say something but it might not reach everyone.

Windows: you’re going to use wsl, right?

The last time I checked postgres gets big becouse of a log activity table used for deduplication, it stores the data of 6 months. The devs mentioned you could be deleting it up to some point (IIRC they said 3 months, but confirm first).

As for pictrs, lemmy caches a lot of stuff, so it copies a lot of data from other instances even when it’s advertised only media from your instance is stored in your server.
My solution was to disable pictrs since I don’t upload media.
Other solutions I’ve heard about are to ask users of your instance to upload media to any other media hosting service, the images uploaded to lemmy are just seen as urls, so it wouldn’t be any different.

It’s been great and not that expensive using a VPS.
$6 for the vps and $1 for 40GB HDD.
Although the HDD probably is making my instance slow, to improve it it’d be $4 for 40GB of SSD, but since the instance is only for me I don’t have any issue in waiting a few minutes.

I’m using PiHole with my tailscale to use their MagicDNS.
This shares the PiHole among all the devices connected to the tailnet, and in the PiHole you can configure your local DNS to point your domains to your tailIP.
My setup has several services in a single machine, so there’s also the issue of ports, for that I use caddy as a reverse proxy, which also allows me to have HTTPS only configuring the key to my registrar for the DNS challenge

there’s also Aegis and 2FAS, but I have no idea about WebDAV servers and also don’t want to rely on Google Drive for backup, also because I’m moving away from Google services.

If your only issue are the backups, then you can still use aegis with automatic encrypted backup to a folder in your device and then use syncthing to automatically send it to your machine. From there use any other backup solution like duplicati or restic.
(Remember that syncthing is not a backup solution, it should only be used as a way to automatically sync files between devices) (People have had many issues with duplicate, but I’ve only seen posts about huge amounts of data, for something like aegis backups has been working fine for me)

I’d also recommend you asking in !selfhosted@lemmy.world

The only issue I’ve had is with games from kakao, they crash after a few minutes of starting. I think the last time I tried it said something abiut modification to the OS. But that’s the only developer I’ve had problems with, the rest of the games I have play without issue.

Also the only downside I see is the tap to pay not working at all, but that’s not graphenOS’ problem, google won’t certificate them.

I’ve been using traccar. It’s more like a service for fleet management, but as a selfhosted alternative is as best as I was able to find.

Kind of, but just because I deployed it xP

Syncthing is so great, I don’t have to deal with things like a FTP server, sending files to a cloud drive, connecting via USB, or similar. I just point syncthing to the folder I want to replicate and my PC has it immediately and receives new files as soon as I connect to a WiFi (because of my configuration), and then at the PC I can easily backup the files.

I remember there was an update to the [redacted]'s one to avoid spam, I don’t know how it worked but it was in the lines of after some “here’s your reminder” comments it stopped itslef from commenting and only sent PMs to the people commenting.
Just mentioning it in case it’s also a desired improvement for this one.

The thing the others mentioned plus maybe it’s easier to hide imperfections in the raw chicken once cooked?

If you have an account and a session you have a cookie or some other sort of “tracking” to know you’re logged in.
I put it in quotes because the tracking via cookies people is usually worried about is the one used to identify and use your behaviour, but tracking if you’re logged in or not is usually fine.

As for the IP logging, I’m not sure but AFAIK IP addresses given by ISPs are dynamic, so every now and then you’ll have a new IP anyways.
If you’re sill paranoid, why not use a VPN or a proxy?
Still, those services can track your original IP so we end up in the beginning and we need to go into another rabbit hole.
Again the same as with the cookie, usually the problem with IP logging is if it’s to identify your behaviour and aggregate it to sell it in some way, but the one done by software like lemmy is to prevent spammers and bad actors, so it’s a necessary evil.

You’re right tho, 12 months of IP log is a lot, not sure where you read that, I haven’t looked at all the code in lemmy to know how easy is to identify the IPs of each user.

Damn, I wanted to answer with that joke…

I’d say I still procrastinate but less. The main factor is it make me feel anxious of not finishing stuff so I wanted a solution.
The way I’m improving is to look at big tasks into smaller steps which are easier and quicker to accomplish, this way I feel better since there’s something I finished even when the big task might be still a long way of being finished.

I remember something about 2 minute tasks or something like that, but also I saw this from my job, splitting projects into epics and each epic into tasks and even then you could split them into sub tasks (taken from the Jira types at my job)

Is it really encrypted?

I’m guessing it’s only for the account recovery to reset your password which should be hashed.

Yeah, most people buy whatever product they see first or smell nice but they most probably are buying a deodorant.
When I noticed this and started looking for antiperspirants, it was a game changer, my days were more comfortable.

hashtags as they can be seen on mastodon.

I haven’t seen the federation content exchanged, in the UI I’ve only seen hashtags from mastodon as links inside the content of the post.
For the implementation in lemmy I’d guess they need to be included in the metedata (as in one of the examples in the rfc), does mastodon already does this so lemmy can properly display them in a separate section in the ui?
Also, how would mastodon handle not having the hashtag in the content but only in the metadata?

The native search is not the best, and google is not really good at dealing with the federated aspect, but you can use this site https://search-lemmy.com/

Send secure message takes you to matrix, which is a dedicated messaging project which has encryption.
Send message uses lemmy, which uses federation which is basically public (well I’m not exactly sure if the messages are public like the rest of the activity but the message is sent and saved in plain text, so at least the instance admins can read them)