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For Matrix, I'd recommend conduit over synapse, with the expectation that all of synapse's features haven't yet been added (most notably support for spaces, which may or may not be a dealbreaker).

It's incredibly easy to set-up and very lightweight. I never self-hosted synapse due to how resource-heavy it is, and constantly had issues with dendrite racking up resources as well.conduit has honestly been the easiest thing I've self-hosted.

So when an instance is blocked, it means users on the blocked instance will no longer be able to see that instance’s content. For example, beehaw.org has now blocked lemmy.world. However with the way federation works, the content from beehaw is cached on lemmy.world servers. So you can only see what has already been cached; there will be no updated content on any existing cache.

Edit: here's a recent post from kbin.social going into further detail on how federation works.

Highly recommend borgbackup, I've been using it for years and it's always been smooth

• Nextcloud
• Jitsi
• Matrix
• NAS file server
• Media center (NAS + OSMC)
• Seedbox
• A couple of random sites

I don't self-host much at the moment

Probably something behind the scenes, at least judging from how a lot of instance blocks happen on Mastodon.

Pretty much for this reason for me as well.

I'm a tech hobbyist and I've run/currently run things like Nextcloud, Jitsi, Matrix, XMPP, etc. But all that seems pretty small-scale. However with e-mail, nearly everything relies on it, and from the headaches I've heard about from those who self-host e-mail, it just seems like a perfect way to screw yourself over 😅

I've been here for years already, but I'm still going to be checking Reddit. There are subs there that either don't exist here (r/TaylorSwift - yes, really) or have a close-knit community that I can't see moving to lemmy anytime soon (r/greyhounds), or exist but are really just something like placeholders but where I get tons of aggregated news where an RSS would be ridiculous to curate (r/soccer and r/liverpoolfc).

Pretty much this.

Mastodon had similar issues for a long while, but as it's more mature than lemmy, export features now exist. Posts from a dead instance will exist on federated instances, but I think the biggest issue would be losing on what communities you subscribe to.