Oh wow, I’d forgotten all about geek code.

Are you being human trafficked?

Thank you, I’ll look into that.

That’s a good point. My thinking was to try and avoid high VPS costs. Anything more than €10 is out of my price range really and this seemed a way of running via a high spec machine without a high price.

Except I don’t browse via my server, I browse behind a VPN client on my PC/phone etc. The server on the other hand is not behind a VPN client as most providers don’t offer a fixed IP or allow port forwarding. Therefore if anyone knows my domain name, they can get my ISP provided IP which resolves my location far too accurately for my liking.

Does docker need to be already installed on my local machine and my VPS?

Forum packages have been around for at least 20 years. I’m terms of forum like features the only difference is federation.

Reddit is not going to go away. And if there’s a set of tools to autoedirect/replace content to a Lemmy based community it won’t be long before its automodded and possibly even excluded server side in the reddit codebase.

They’ve said it themselves - profit is their target. They’ll do pretty much anything to prevent that being impeded.

I will have to participate on Reddit as I help mod a sub for an org that risks being misrepresented. But that’s all I’ll go for, no more participation in any other sub (unless I spot some misrepresentation of what’s happened or of the fediverse). My community is here now.

Maybe its time we just moved on from Reddit and worrying about what its done and concentrate on building the community here.