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Afaik this is not an error from Lemmy but from nginx, which is not able to relay the request to Lemmy and therefore returns a 502 bad gateway response. Imo this just means the servers are over capacity, so most likely a scaling/infrastructure issue.

I had a quick read of the code and it looks pretty solid to me. Not the most "enterprise" code imaginable, but definitely no code smell or quick hacking job.

It's a hug of death right now with all the new users pouring in. Give it some time to settle and for admins to scale up the infrastructure.

I think federating with an instance that actually wants federation to die (have a monopoly) is a very bad idea. Meta would use its leverage to actively undermine and harm the Fediverse, because it's not in their interest to split the userbase between multiple servers they don't own. Imo they only want to use it to bootstrap their own service, after that they'll do anything to control as much of the users and content as possible. That's the complete opposite of what the Fediverse is supposed to be!

Ever heard of the phrase "democracy without democrats"? That would be Meta in the Fediverse.

In a sense reverse proxies are like DNS. You don't really need them (can just use IP addresses), but they can make using your services a whole lot easier. You can hide internal changes to your hosting infrastructure from the outside world for example, just like "hiding" IP address changes of your servers. E.g. if you change something about your self-hosted lemmy instance all links to it can keep working, because they link to the proxy. They can also handle SSL certificates, so the services don't have to do that themselves, making life easier for their devs.

Same here. Worked fine at first, then the version notice and now it crashes right at the start.

I hope it's a version issue and the lemmy.world upgrade today will fix it.

I moved to Thunder for now, but it's definitely still WIP.

The biggest thing for me was getting a Synology NAS with Docker support, and running most of the cloud services I rely on from there. So:

• Gmail -> Synology MailPlus
• Google Photos -> Synology Photos
• Google Books/Podcasts-> Audiobookshelf
• Google Search -> SearXNG
• Google Drive -> Synology Drive
• Google Docs -> Synology Office
• Google Calendar -> Synology Calendar
• YouTube -> Piped
• Chrome -> Firefox with selfhosted sync server
• Netflix -> Plex

This means all my personal data is stored on that NAS, and all my other devices connect to it as if it's a regular cloud service. It's also doing an e2e encrypted cloud backup to Synology C2 every night, so even if something happens to my NAS the most important data will still be safe.

The one thing I have yet to replace is Notion, there is just nothing else like it. Maybe AnyType will get there at some point. I also still use YouTube Music because their recommendations and auto-playlists are just great for discovering new music. And if you don't have access to Synology apps then Nextcloud is also a great option!

By far the most private operation system is of course Linux, there is just no way around it you don't want your OS to call home.

I'm using SearXNG as well, and personally I think the results are at least on par with Google. It's missing a few features though, like doing calculations or searching for exact matches with quotations.

It's the dream of just opening up your regular phone to have a small tablet, clashing with the reality that your phone will never be regular sized if you want it to be able to do this!

Maybe someday phones can be like 4mm thin, so doubling that for a foldable would be reasonable. But we are definitely not there yet.

The answer is always yes for hosted services. The data has to be stored somewhere, and it is readable if not explicitly encrypted on your device before being send to the server. Some things like passwords are usually handled differently though, they are not readable by anyone.

That's one of the reasons why picking an instance is a big deal. You trust that instance with moderation and handling of your data. If you're not comfortable with any instance then you should look into hosting your own!

Apparently it works if you are already signed in, but a fresh install doesn't work.

You can update a standard release distribution just fine, no need to reinstall anything. It does basically the same thing as a rolling release, just not as often and more packages at once.

What does the release cadence have to do with that?