Well i dont have any non profit backing but as far as redundancy is concerned ive got that covered. But yeah i see your point and how it would affect user choice and confidence.

This is why we host our instance on a .org. Honestly another huge blow for Lemmy. It doesn’t really inspire confidence in the platform. Hopefully after enough time passes smaller instances like us and the bigger ones left will have help up a good track record to inspire confidence again.

The explanation box is more just to prevent bots, once im confident that the captcha is working as intended I’ll likely remove it

I have 32tb/month so i think ill be ok 😅

Well my vps is already paid for about 11 months in advanced now so no problems there. And im happy to keep it going if people find use in my server.

Thanks for the legal article has very useful info

Well its only a new instance but no problems so far.

There are tool to export and import subs and blocks but as far as I’m aware at the moment there is no account transfer utility yet.

This could be a concern but i think it will even out in the end. Many people will naturally gravitate to am instance that suites them. I created unilem.org as an instance aimed at not defederating. Some will like that and join others will not and find a different place that suits them. Its the beauty of the fediverse. You can choose your home or even host your own.

I think users are jumping over to instances that more fit their personal values. Its why I left lemmy.world and created unilem.org. An instance for no defederation. It might not be for everyone. But i prefer to be able to access everything in one place and do thr moderation/blocking on the user level.