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But, the theory goes, you're not supposed to be reliant on third parties as you should be in control of your own domain (or within a few degrees of the person who is).

Large instances are what are antithetical to decentralisation.

Of course, the reality of it is that, it just hasn't worked out like that.

Activitypub makes it next to impossible to "move" an instance to a new domain.

Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.

You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they'll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a "new" fediverse user they'll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.

Sorry, I'll revise to what I intended (since I also use it). "Does anyone pay attention to it? Do they fuck."

In theory this is done. There is a Do Not Track (DNT) header that is browser defined. Does anyone use it? Do they fuck.

a lemmy instance can act as a censor and push the biases of their admins,

This is a strength of the federated model. In an ideal world instances are small and a user's values align with those of their instance's admins.

The problem here is that a single instance has grown so large that a decision like this has had such an impact.

In the UK on the BBC One new year coverage he was the main act. That likely would not have happened this late in his career without the meme.

It was also the song he played immediately following the London fireworks coverage at about 00:10. Probably going for some record number of people rick rolled at once.

There's a lesson to be learned here: don't push a massive update close to the holidays because, ya know, you might break federation and go on vacation for a week.

I mean, no one has forced any admins to deploy a new version. But yeah, this is an annoying one.

Someone wanted the chain to fail, you can't steal concrete slab - it's worthless rubble.

So to be clear, you want traffic coming out of your VPS to have a source address that is your home IP?

No that's not how I read it at all. He wants his VPS to act as a NAT router for email that routes traffic through a wireguard tunnel to the mail server on his home network. His mail server would act as if it was port forwarded using his home router, only it won't be his home IP, it'll be the VPS's

Wish this kind of joined up thinking happened in places other than the Nordics.

Data centres and industry exist and dump heat all over the world. Putting it to use is a no brainer.

I got lucky. Back when that privacy scare with Whatsapp made mainstream news my Aunt asked in the extended family chat what alternatives there were. I responded that I use SIgnal with my friends (all 2 of them on Signal at the time) and just like that everybody switched. 2 hours later my entire paternal family are on Signal, and still are.

It's in the app store on the quest itself. Source: I installed it from there earlier on my Q2.