NSFW links don’g anymore. My favorite artists are either stuck or moving elsewhere.

Is lemmy.fmhy.ml at the beginning the home/local users instance?

Anything in particular you did so it does not store any data? I’m thinking I should try out the same on a cheap VPS.

Email analogy is good to explain the systems architecture, but it still doesn’t communicate ethics of proper use (decentralization). Just look how many people have gmail or outlook as their mail account.

You mean lemmy as an onion service? Onion addresses aren’t reachable unless you have Tor enabled. Won’t that create a parallel darknet fediverse on Tor network that doesn’t interact with clearnet fediverse?

It’s like saying the police is preparing for thieves robbing the bank or the fire department preparing for a wildfire. It’s part of their job and it would be stranger not to have a contingency plan.

Are you in Russia right now? How are things over there?

Does that mean my actual home server is behind a VPN connection but has its traffic transparently routed to the external VPS, which eliminates the need for opening ports on the residential router?

In another way: “Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns.”