this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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If they want that community on their instance I don't want to interact with their instance. I guess at this point I should just spin up my own instance and federate via whitelist.
it's really easy, I spun up my own instance in a morning. Ok, I am a sysadmin and programmer, but it really wasn't very difficult and didn't require much beyond creating a VPS and DNS entry along with basic abilities at the command line to use the ansible playbook.
I actually have an old file server under my desk I'm tinkering with and using for my nextcloud I'm just paranoid that I won't have it set up properly in terms of the security I have on it otherwise i would have spun up a Lemmy instance weeks ago lol. I've daily driven Arch Linux on my gaming desktop for years at this point so I'm not exactly unfamiliar with a command line.
You wouldn't have to do that if users had the power to block entire instances themselves. It's stupid that we have to discuss with mods about something that should be completely within our control.