Nice write-up. Not really for me as I prefer to keep my library made up of whole albums and min. 320kbps since I ditched Spotify.

Check out Symfonium if you haven’t and you’re using Android - it’s by far the best subsonic client I’ve used.

I’ve heard there’s a bug that can cause old posts to show in Hot if your instance admins haven’t restarted Lemmy in a while.

No worries! I used it myself today with great success. Thanks for the awesome tool.

I would suggest migrating your pictrs to use object storage, which is often a tenth of the price of block storage.

This migration tool works quite well and includes importing blocked communities: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Just don’t ever forget your password to said Lemmy instance because you won’t be able to reset it.

NAS hosting all media and running:

• Sonarr for grabbing and managing TV shows
• Radarr does the same for movies
• Lidarr just for an overview of upcoming/missing music releases
• Navidrome to stream music (replaces Spotify)
• Jackett to manage torrent indexers
• qBittorrent via OpenVPN

Plus a VM running Nicotine+ (Soulseek client) for music sharing.

I’m hopeful that no single instance will gain such a large proportion of the userbase that they could try to defederate and hold other instances to ransom like that. I’d like to think their users would jump ship rather than be cut off from the rest of Lemmy.

I think though that more needs to be done when onboarding new users to spread the load across more than a few popular instances.