thanks you and @Irdial@lemmy.ml LM Studio was the tool I think I was looking for

Don’t do that shit, for a moment I thought he may have passed on

Well done on getting it up and running, federation seems to be working https://moplemmy.fyi/instances & https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=moplemmy.fyi

You shouldn’t have to put instances in the Allowed Instances, just use blocked list for stuff you dont want to see

Yes email is a pain in the arse. More so if you are having to deal with dynamic IPs

Now just wait for the scrapers to turn up. Both Dave (lemmy.nz) and I are getting well in excess of 500k requests from content scrapers per day atm and they are tyring to pull in whole comment trees and walk through all posters.

Have a look at Iocaine to help tarpit some of them if you dont want to route through something like cloudflare.

those ~2000 blocks were in the hour after turning on the full proxy, still getting a fair few from china hitting the real IP address that they must have cached.

Grep’d the logs and had 250,000 requests from china in the last 20 hours asking for full threads via the api

up untill now I’ve not had too much bot traffic, but I’m betting hammered atm. Make sure to have some good firewall rules for when it happens:

Yes you are mad, I know as I did that over 3 years ago. Went from at home => a cheep VPS => paid for Oracle VPS.

If you go down the lemmy route (vs piefed) then I would deply with Lemmy-Easy-Deploy by @ubergeek77. this makes setting Caddy and mail simple

I have to agree. Had a static ip for years

And yes - I’m running DSM (Arc Loader) in a VM with PCIe passthrough for the NAS. It’s a bit overkill, but I wanted proper storage virtualization with direct hardware access.

Whats this like, I’m running TrueNAS (the BSD version) with PCIe pass-through for my HBA and a couple of SATA ports - all in a VM on the latest proxmox

This is my best guess at the moment, working through it atm but not working

Have a look at https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/configuration/options/#%3A~%3Atext=true-%2CLyricsPriority%2C-ND_LYRICSPRIORITY

and maybe the plugin https://github.com/J0R6IT0/navidrome-lyrics-plugin