I got a big ass HDD I can store it all in if need be.
Cantaloupe
That explains the "sync" logs I've been seeing! Is sync a good user experience?
I’m gonna try and hold out and see what happens. Piefed did not last long, it did federate with quite a few servers, but I was mainly browsing content on my one account.
Yes, Cantaloupe877 was made on both instances, using the same domain. After moving to Lemmy, several weird things started happening like me not being able to join communities, profile pictures not loading, and my posts not showing up on lemmy. I thought I configured the server wrong so I screwed about with it to no avail, but I discovered with further testing that other servers worked fine, I could join their communities and post fine, and I realized my mistake.
The only thing that remains broken that I am aware of is my profile picture. When that’ll fix itself or if ever, no idea, but it’s working pretty well now aside from that.
Still seems odd, because this server was just made, it hasn't been offline for an extended period of time.
My goal is to compress and store all external images. If an instance goes down, all is not lost as a copy would still be in my server.
When you get big enough, you are under more scrutiny and these laws are spreading more and more. I can imagine the Mastodon team is under lots of external pressure to start following these new laws. Mastodon won't be the last to start thinking about implementation.
I hope it's face verification so I can just point the camera at a guy on Google images or whatever to get it to let me in.