Ah, then no, the last thing I knew about it you can’t migrate accounts from one server to another, which is what you’re trying to do here.
As I mentioned if you were able to move the keys which identify your account it would be easy for someone to impersonate you.
Also, your public keys are shared among all the instances you’ve interacted, so this might break your interactions there.

Do you still have the old database? You should be able to move your instance around as long as you have a dump of your DB, that’s where all the keys of each community and user in your instance are. Those are the ones telling other instances you’re actually you, if you loose those I don’t know what can be done so other instances flush your old content and treat you as a new account. But I would count on thi s being a feature since it could lead to people impersonating someone else if they get a hold of the domain without the DB.

EDIT: amm, maybe I didn’t understand correctly, are you trying to move to a new domain? Or to a new server with the same domain?
What’s re-home?

It’s just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you

As if it didn’t happen already

The last time I checked postgres gets big becouse of a log activity table used for deduplication, it stores the data of 6 months. The devs mentioned you could be deleting it up to some point (IIRC they said 3 months, but confirm first).

As for pictrs, lemmy caches a lot of stuff, so it copies a lot of data from other instances even when it’s advertised only media from your instance is stored in your server.
My solution was to disable pictrs since I don’t upload media.
Other solutions I’ve heard about are to ask users of your instance to upload media to any other media hosting service, the images uploaded to lemmy are just seen as urls, so it wouldn’t be any different.

Kind of, but just because I deployed it xP

If you have an account and a session you have a cookie or some other sort of “tracking” to know you’re logged in.
I put it in quotes because the tracking via cookies people is usually worried about is the one used to identify and use your behaviour, but tracking if you’re logged in or not is usually fine.

As for the IP logging, I’m not sure but AFAIK IP addresses given by ISPs are dynamic, so every now and then you’ll have a new IP anyways.
If you’re sill paranoid, why not use a VPN or a proxy?
Still, those services can track your original IP so we end up in the beginning and we need to go into another rabbit hole.
Again the same as with the cookie, usually the problem with IP logging is if it’s to identify your behaviour and aggregate it to sell it in some way, but the one done by software like lemmy is to prevent spammers and bad actors, so it’s a necessary evil.

You’re right tho, 12 months of IP log is a lot, not sure where you read that, I haven’t looked at all the code in lemmy to know how easy is to identify the IPs of each user.

The native search is not the best, and google is not really good at dealing with the federated aspect, but you can use this site https://search-lemmy.com/

It’s similar to any site, even those with E2EE, any site owner can get into their storage and delete whatever they want. E2EE only makes them not know what they’re deleting.

Well, those are for different communities, so no.
Maybe block that person since they seem to be a bit spammy?

You’re thinking of reimplementing something like git which some wiki open source project might as well already have solved.
So, the answer will be the same: it’ll be better to have a dedicated project/service.

I’m wondering if that would be too niche or something which should be its own project, and those in need of a suitable solution would be better deploying a dedicated service.

I mean, for example lemmy has PMs, but if there’s a notice to move to a dedicated messaging service for more privacy and functionality.

So, for a “wiki” the sidebar usually is enough to have the rules and links to sites with more information and a better structure.

The devs have said the API is poorly documented because they want first to stabilize the features, so the api can change at any time right now.
The current documentation and library is being auto generated from the server code.

Why not use the saved posts?

I don’t fully understand the “right to be forgotten”.
I mean, it’s very useful when you want to make sure a corporation which profits from your data doesn’t want to delete that data, but from the perspective of forums like in here I struggle to understand the need of people to delete everything at some point.

The only result I see from this is useful knowledge being lost.
Imagine if I make a useful post which people come from time to time to solve their issue. People would probably link to beehaw not my instance, since I posted in this community. After a couple of years I no longer can maintain my instance and goes down, then my useful post has a silent self-destruct, people won’t know this and keep linking it and eventually it’ll end up like with a lot of forums:
“The solution is in this link”
“Thanks, that solved my issue”
But now link is dead and the solution gone.

With how lemmy works now then people will still be able to find the content even if the instance where it originated from dies.
I see this as a very useful feature to preserve knowledge.

If you don’t want something to be forever in the internet then don’t post it, as you said, the wayback machine exists, so even then you’re acknowledging the GDPR request you made to the instance was useless, you still need to go to any archiver there is to be sure your data has been properly deleted.

If your bot is already a moderator of the community couldn’t it lock the comments by default and when it needs to make a comment it could unlock it for that brief moment and relock it.

I don’t know if this is kind of what you’re looking for since I haven’t read it completely yet.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pub/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers

Post, edits and deletes are federated in lemmy.
The Devs have said the issue comes from the internet itself where instances could be some times not reachable when the activity is sent.
There’s also the case where a post hasn’t showed up in all instances or has more comments in one instance than others.

Again, it’s the same in reddit, if you create a new sub no one can see it because reddit doesn’t share what new communities there are, they’re hidden from the search unless you know the exact name or until they have enough activity, but it’s a cycle where you can’t have enough activity because it doesn’t appear in searches.
The answer in both, reddit and lemmy, is crossposting, you need to promote your new community with good content.
Or sharing it in communities like [email protected] or [email protected]
There’s also this site, tho I don’t know how it gets populated https://browse.feddit.de/

It’s the same as in reddit, you can find r/unpopularopinion and r/TrueUnpopularOpinion, or off my chest, or shower thoughts (with the UL one).
It’d be like asking those communities should only have one feed.
Similarly here you can have [email protected] and [email protected] and you’d have to decide which one is more aligned with your idea of what the community should be.
And if you don’t like it, then you can create a new community in another instance without having to fight for the same name (I could create one in my instance like [email protected])

I think is the latter.
IIRC in the code when receiving the downvote the instance just rejects it.
So only in the instance where it was generated gets recorded.

Edit: here’s the rejection message. I can’t see the whole flow since I’m not at my PC, but it’s inside a verify function, so I assume it gets called right when the activity is received before being processed.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/apub/src/activities/voting/vote.rs#L66