Apollo going away was the catalyst for me. I will never use Reddit's garbage website or first-party app.
Plus Lemmy gave me an excuse to host another neat service and still waste the same time I did on Reddit.
I use Deemix/Deemon to track hundreds of artists and automatically grab new releases in FLAC from Deezer. It's slightly manual compared to my *arr stack with its Discord bot, but just a quick copy/paste from Discord/etc into a command.
Personally I have a Deezer Hi-Fi sub to get the flac's, not sure if their API is still wide open for MP3s or not. It used to be open for anything without a paid account.
I tend to spend way too much on electronics. Constant PC upgrades, new disks for my NAS, better monitors, etc. I do at least allocate a monthly budget for this, but go over it sometimes...
Food delivery is another high category for me, and I've been trying to cut back, but it's soooooo convenient.
I think content import should be a thing across Lemmy, most users moving over have tons of content they've posted on Reddit, and having an easy way to bring that here would be great. But Lemmy isn't really built to handle bulk imports yet, if you simply hit the API of your instance it will flood /New on every instance that's indexed whatever sublemmy is being imported, and it will severely disrupt the use of the sub for a while. If content could be backfilled directly to the database with earlier timestamps it could be done smoothly, though.
I use Internetbs.net, sometimes Name.com if they have a particular TLD way cheaper.
Yes, instance bans propagate out to the federation. But if user@a.com gets banned, they can just go sign up as user@b.com.
Because 90% of their users don't care about APIs or 3rd party apps, they just want the content however reddit makes them consume it.
I'm just letting mine do whatever it wants, got plenty of local storage. If/when I have storage issues I'll add an s3 bucket, pretty easy to modify the entrypoint for pictrs to pass s3 connection info in the docker-compose deployment.
The LemmyImporter repo expects you to already have all your post data in a json file- it has a link in the readme to a Lemmygrad.ml comment with a Python script. Seems like it would do exactly what I want, if Pushshift was working. I may be able to fiddle with it enough over the weekend to hit Reddit directly, though.
Yeah that's definitely what I want, anything cloned over here would ideally have both author attribution and a direct link to the original Reddit post at the very top of each post.
I've got a baremetal server with OVH running VMware, so it's just a VM that I manage. I'm paying more for it than I'd like, but it's running far more than just Lemmy. If I wind up ditching it in the future, it's just a quick vMotion off to another machine + DNS updates.
Here's a current output of my storage about a week into hosting the instance. It's growing slower than I expected, and I do have plans to move volumes/pictrs up to an s3 bucket whenever I start running low on local storage.
[jon@lemmy lemmy]# du -sh volumes/*
2.5G volumes/pictrs
2.2G volumes/postgres
I would recommend locking down SSH on your Lemmy server, I have mine restricted to allow logins from VPN only. Otherwise you'll get probed 24/7 with a public server.
Lol. Guess it's time to add the rest of my subbed channels to YT-DL and ditch their shitty ad-filled site entirely.