idk why, but everytime I try archinstall it breaks in one way or another. I'm sure it works perfectly well for everyone else, I'm just cursed

note: not seeking advice, I prefer my manually installed FDE + secureboot EFISTUB setup anyways

I admire your dedication, but you really could've just done this

btrfs fi mkswapfile --size 16G /swap
swapon /swap

zfs send -I

Buying the music and selfhosting a streaming server is an option, though obviously not for everyone

Free to read? Where? Without links your arguments are just as good as a flat earther's "do your own research".

I would rather do that instead of indirectly killing a bunch of unwilling people, yeah.

Lemmy but twitter instead of reddit.

And I just want a little less of my PII on reddit's servers.

I'm pretty sure that most lemmy instances run on a VPS, where the only thing you actually have to worry about usually is securing SSH, i.e. only using keys and setting up fail2ban. After that it's only a matter of securing lemmy the software itself, which is a whole other discussion.

yeah, from my experience lemmy has way fewer but more active users compared to reddit

Because I don't want to be reliant on someone else's servers, plus I can set it up exactly how I want.

As for how I pay for the server, I use a free OCI VPS, so... I don't.