I think content import should be a thing across Lemmy, most users moving over have tons of content they've posted on Reddit, and having an easy way to bring that here would be great. But Lemmy isn't really built to handle bulk imports yet, if you simply hit the API of your instance it will flood /New on every instance that's indexed whatever sublemmy is being imported, and it will severely disrupt the use of the sub for a while. If content could be backfilled directly to the database with earlier timestamps it could be done smoothly, though.
I use Internetbs.net, sometimes Name.com if they have a particular TLD way cheaper.
Yes, instance bans propagate out to the federation. But if user@a.com gets banned, they can just go sign up as user@b.com.
Because 90% of their users don't care about APIs or 3rd party apps, they just want the content however reddit makes them consume it.
I'm just letting mine do whatever it wants, got plenty of local storage. If/when I have storage issues I'll add an s3 bucket, pretty easy to modify the entrypoint for pictrs to pass s3 connection info in the docker-compose deployment.
The LemmyImporter repo expects you to already have all your post data in a json file- it has a link in the readme to a Lemmygrad.ml comment with a Python script. Seems like it would do exactly what I want, if Pushshift was working. I may be able to fiddle with it enough over the weekend to hit Reddit directly, though.
Yeah that's definitely what I want, anything cloned over here would ideally have both author attribution and a direct link to the original Reddit post at the very top of each post.
I've got a baremetal server with OVH running VMware, so it's just a VM that I manage. I'm paying more for it than I'd like, but it's running far more than just Lemmy. If I wind up ditching it in the future, it's just a quick vMotion off to another machine + DNS updates.
Here's a current output of my storage about a week into hosting the instance. It's growing slower than I expected, and I do have plans to move volumes/pictrs up to an s3 bucket whenever I start running low on local storage.
[jon@lemmy lemmy]# du -sh volumes/*
2.5G volumes/pictrs
2.2G volumes/postgres
I would recommend locking down SSH on your Lemmy server, I have mine restricted to allow logins from VPN only. Otherwise you'll get probed 24/7 with a public server.
They do seem to be actively posting in a lot of the communities, so maybe it's just someone trying to seed new Lemmies. There's a lot of people that want new communities but also don't want to moderate, so someone like this could be filling an actual gap if they have good intentions.
Do you need access control? If not, a simple Apache/Nginx directory listing is nice and easy, just drop your files in your webroot and you're set. h5ai is a nice addition if you go that route.
If you need access control (or at least some sort of obfuscated URLs), Nextcloud is a good option. Pretty easy to get up and running, and there's a ton of plugins available.
I have a Deezer Hifi sub and mostly download FLACs from there to play in Plexamp (which imo is among the best music players out there). Last.fm for discovery, sometimes I'll scroll through and go check out recommended artists on Spotify, and download through Deezer if I like them.
I tend to spend way too much on electronics. Constant PC upgrades, new disks for my NAS, better monitors, etc. I do at least allocate a monthly budget for this, but go over it sometimes...
Food delivery is another high category for me, and I've been trying to cut back, but it's soooooo convenient.