I like where your head’s at. I’m gonna go with the expecting more indictments angle paired with not being as rich/liquid as he’d like everyone to believe. What an unavoidable situation he’s found himself in.

That’s a valid point I hadn’t considered. Based on a cursory look at how bail bond works, if you go with a bondsman you’re out a certain amount regardless if you show up to court or not.

So if he paid the 200k he’d get almost all of it back after court, minus whatever processing fees the court has. If he goes with the bondsman he forks over 10% and the bondsman covers the other 90%, but he would get nothing back after court. The bondsman gets the full refund and keeps it all.

I can’t imagine the return on that would move the needle much for someone as “rich” as he is. I don’t know though, and I’ll fully admit this is pure speculation.

You lose comment history and all that jazz too but it’s better than nothing. I’m not sure if devs plan to implement a way to do it but it’s one of the reasons I decided to roll my own instance. Nothing more frustrating than using someone else’s and losing access while they take days to get it back up.

Doesn’t this make her point even more? Had to use a bondsman for 20k but he’s super rich? Yiiikes

The growth is happening mostly in the pictrs and db containers. I know pictrs is optional if you’re not uploading pics yourself, but I didn’t want to limit myself on that. I haven’t dived into where the db growth is happening yet either. Right now my hurdle is there doesn’t seem to be any baked in maintenance tools, so it’s all going to be me editing the database directly. I’m okay with doing it but need to figure out how to not purge content I have saved via Lemmy.

As far as NSFW stuff, there’s a check box for the instance settings for enabling NSFW instance wide. I have it unchecked and haven’t seen a single NSFW post browsing through my instance. It does require things to be marked as such though. I’ll probably go the extra step and defederate the porn instances just to add another layer.

Please let me know if you find anything useful for maintaining the instance.

I have this one on a Hetzner server that runs me like $6/mo. I’m not comfortable with the federated nature of things potentially putting CSAM or other illegal content on disk in my home.

I use tailscale so I can still hit my internal (at home) git repos and all that. The rest of my stuff is all hosted on an old gaming PC I turned into a Proxmox host that sits in my spare bedroom. Of those services, I only expose like 3 things to the outside world. Nextcloud being the main one. I don’t route it through my VPS, just proxy it through cloudflare.

Yeah I haven’t found anything for cleanup maintenance. Right now with just me my disk usage is increasing ~300MB per day. I’m debating purging stuff older than 30 days or something. The only stuff where my server is the source of truth is my profile and communities on my instance.

We’ll see though, this is just a fun little side thing I’m not taking too seriously.

2fa was in at the time. IIRC the jwt was granted after 2fa so it didn’t matter.

You’ve got a point though, small instances aren’t gonna be nearly as useful as a giant one to threat actors. Assuming you don’t give them a reason to go after you specifically they wouldn’t have a reason to target such a tiny server.

Still though, I don’t need that shiny A next to my name so I’m good with how I have it set up.

Exactly. I went one step further and decided not to use my admin account as my main. I don’t run around as root on servers so I try not to do that with apps. It’s easier with Lemmy because once it’s set up all the admin tasks hit my email.

I also wanted to avoid that vulnerability that hit Lemmy World a few weeks ago that was only possible because the server admin got their jwt stolen, which wouldn’t have been so impactful if they weren’t on the admin account.

Yes it works

Yep. My instance just has me on it and posting elsewhere works without issue. Anything I upload goes to my instance and federates out. It’s really quite great not having to worry about the instance drama when big ones defederate from each other. I also turned off NSFW so I don’t have to worry about any of that content (legal or otherwise) even hitting my server.

Here’s an image of me making this comment via Sync for Lemmy

Edit: I have community creation locked down to admins, which everything disables them on my instance.