For #3, as far as the instance lists and the Lemmy Community Browser are concerned, I believe a 301 redirect should work as long as it redirects with the URI. e.g. old.lemmy.tld/c/Hangout -> new.lemmy.tld/c/Hangout . Eventually my new instance will be picked up by those, but I’m still not sure if/when my old instance would drop off (see question #1)

That would allow anyone clicking into my old instance from any of the currently published instance lists to land on the new domain. But I’m not sure how currently federated instances would handle that.

Right, exactly. And that got me thinking: what counts as a view?

Do you have to click play and watch it or does it count as a view if it shows up in your feed and you scroll past it? I’m leaning toward the latter, but I don’t have any knowledge of how Twitter’s metrics work (if there is even any logic to them, that is).

I definitely agree that it wasn’t anywhere near 16m unique people, so I do feel a little better about our species. lol

the saddest part is that he still got over 16M views already

For the sake of my faith in humanity, is there any chance Musk might have had his thumb on the scale there?

To expand on that, I do a join between the local_user and person tables so I can grab the name and display names for the local users:

select 
  p.name, 
  p.display_name, 
  a.person_id, 
  a.email, 
  a.email_verified, 
  a.accepted_application 
from 
  local_user a, 
  person p 
where 
  a.person_id = p.id;

I just used the Docker logging options to cap the stdout/stderr log to a reasonable size. Just add logging options to each chatty service and change 25m to whatever makes sense for your environment.

docker-compose.yml:

services:
  ....
  lemmy:
    ...
     logging:                                                                                                                                                                                 
        options:                                                                                                                                                                               
          max-size: 25m
  pictrs:
    ...
       logging:                                                                                                                                                                                 
        options:                                                                                                                                                                               
          max-size: 25m

Makes me think of an old Family Guy gag where someone was trying to interview them (Joan Rivers, maybe?) and Brian is like “your microphone isn’t even plugged in”.

Just going through the motions of when they were relevant, unable to let go and move on.

Edit: Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8-YrQHqYU

That’s 90% of the reason I swore off Windows entirely; I don’t even bother with dual boot anymore. I don’t want any of the cloud crap, AI, ads, or “suggestions” in my operating system. As add-on features, sure, whatever, but not as part of the default experience.

Just run my programs, do what I ask, and remember who the system belongs to.