This is why I think something like mastodon works really well for government, public works or any service that wants Twitter/Facebook like notifications without all the bullshit like having to deal with all negatives of having those accounts.

Jellyfin doesn’t seem to be as oriented towards music but will also work and many people use it for music

I buy music from Amazon music, hd tracks or band camp it’s all drm free and put it on my server behind a subsonic based server . That’ll give you the closest to a streaming service. Otherwise just sync music on your phone old school.

How do you check?

Not 100% clear but reading the i2p docs I think they have user friendly names

1. Run Lemmy instance
2. Gain userbase
3. Intercept data users are reading and posting from your instance and others
4. Feed to AI
5. Profit?

Lemmy is way less privacy oriented than reddit and that’s by design.

Been using nixos for a couple months now. It’s nice and I really enjoy having all my configuration in one place and able to be version controlled. The down side being installing and configuring things take a bit more time to read how nix does it. I have it on a laptop that I’ve been playing with and removed it and put rocky for something else but I am 100% confident I can go right back to the way i had it.

So far the cons I’m seeing is installing vscode plugins are a little annoying and setting up to do python development on existing projects not very easy.