Generally, if in the same country you’d have to comply. As another example though: If your server was in Canada, and some department in Alabama wanted your data, you could tell them to pound sand. Though they may put some sort of warrant out for you for failure to comply (doesn’t matter though if you never go there)

Pretty great on the web browser front-end to be honest - haven’t had an issue when I have used it on my phone. Not sure about the app side of things since I’ve been trying to limit my doom scrolling to when I’m at a computer

Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.

I’ve been happy with Bitwarden thus far. Used Lastpass back in the day, but migrated over when the renewal prices started creeping up.

Yeah - this was a tad annoying at work today. Thank god for terraform if outages had become more severe

In all honesty, there are a ton of us tech enthusiasts who have no problem paying 10-20$ per month to run an instance out of our own pockets. We get the ability to subscribe to content we used to use Reddit for, and we can have a few folks hop on with us. Multiply that by a bunch, and add in community funded instances, and we’ll be fine.

Gotta consider server costs were only a fraction of Reddit’s costs. Salaries are quite pricey, and we have lots of folks volunteering time which will make it all work.

I just run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.

I’ve heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it’ll work for you)

There are some folks in the lemmy_support area lurking around offering help on the technical side, if that’s what you’re after! Many don’t have time to dedicate to running a full instance themselves, but are happy to help with the setup

This is basically why I’m sticking around, besides being able to have a copy of the content I consume on servers I can do something about (ie, backup.)

Not expecting things to get better after IPO personally

This is my droplet with 1GB of RAM only running lemmy:

free -m
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:             964         386          68         141         509         219
Swap:           2047         310        1737

So expect at least 1GB for lemmy with postgres included.

Same. I know it’s more work than caddy etc, but I’ve been doing it for eons now so it’s muscle memory at this point.

Take a look at https://browse.feddit.de/

There’s a auto-updating list showing even the popularity level - helps a ton finding them!

Current communities are popping up like crazy today and the previous couple days, so it’s a bit to keep track of.

I mean, it’s a message board. It’s just unknown actors running the servers, but everything is public anyway so post accordingly.

Reddit was just controlled by a corporation is the only real difference.

Maybe, maybe not, but the instances have the option of closing registrations for a bit if they get overwhelmed and need to regroup. This is why it’s nice to see lots of other instances popping up across the fediverse