Pros:
- Lemmy is my replacement for Reddit, so I'm definitely not abandoning it any time soon
- Regularly updated
- I manage servers for a living, I generally know how to handle stuff like this
- Rules are lax, basically don't do anything illegal, don't spam and you won't be banned from the instance (mods can still ban you on their own discretion from specific communities)
- Hosted in EU
- I don't care about, nor do I collect, your personal data
- There's a bot that travels across the Fediverse and subscribes to popular communities, meaning your "All" feed won't be half-empty and is comparable in content to the largest instances
- The instance has "lemmings" in the name. Yes, that's a pro.
- If you ask, I might make you a lemming-related, ai-generated profile picture
Cons:
- It has a bus factor of one - if I get hit by a bus, the instance goes down within a month of not paying for hosting
- As an upside, I try my best to not get hit by a bus (so far with 100% success rate)
Sounds good. I already have a couple of accounts on other instances and this one seems like a good alternate as well. Thanks!
How do you plan to protect the instance from DDOS attacks?
On the webserver level, don't really want to use CloudFlare or similar (though I may deploy it temporarily as a quick fix).