That’s fucked up

Also, if you’re worried about logging, you could set up a bulletproof, anon VPS you paid for in cash/crypto from a host who doesn’t KYC. Then, set it as a community node, and then configure Portmaster to only accept your SPN entry node as your own VPS. That way, you can know that when you enter the SPN it’s through a VPS you’ve ensured isn’t tied to your identity, doesn’t log, and is your starting point before being routed through other random locations.

SPN has a maximum of 3 hops (same as Tor), unlike Proton, IVPN, Nord, etc that do a dual-VPN, multihop, whatever you want to call it, with only 2 hops.

I’ve added 2 additional hops via hardware network infra through VPN chaining and I still achieve upwards of 150mbps down on a 1gbps connection with a total of 5 hops. So, I feel the speed achieved considering so many hops is pretty amazing. Of course, depending on the locations routed, may have high ms ping.

Even if you just purchase 1 month, the worst case scenario is you’ve lost $8. The best case scenario is you’ve found your new fav open-source Linux network manager with an onion router like me.

They do have built in DNS protection, it’s just not DNS servers controlled by them. You can pick presets from AdGuard, Cloudflare, etc. Or, use your own.

Regarding logging, I’m not sure I understand entirely how it’s relevant to a service such as SPN. Have you used Tor and wondered if the nodes are logging? SPN is also an onion router. So, the exit node will not know your origin, even if they are logging. Of course, we could go down rabbit holes about speculative traffic correlation and/or timing attacks, but that’s a separate discussion. A large portion of the SPN network is also community operated nodes.

SPN nodes can also be run by anyone without needing a large investment of staked cryptocurrency, unlike another onion router Lokinet. This lowers the barrier to entry for a more diverse number of community contributed nodes to SPN.

These aren’t necessarily multiple VPN connections. Instead, every network request is sprayed across the SPN network based upon your desired number of hops and other settings. This means one app might see you as being in Iceland while another in Australia, etc. It bounces every connection around the network. If someone were trying to track you, it’d make it just a little more difficult than a static location connection with a traditional VPN.

Hope this helps and you give it a try.

Safing.io portmaster with SPN. It’s better than any of the other recommendations so far.

The simplest solution would be to use a Nostr app to create a keypair (aka account). Then add the Mostr.pub relay. This will let you search for ActivityPub users and follow them as if it were a Twitter-style feed.

Ope (ノ*°▽°*)

Find one that accepts crypto and then you’re good

Yup Yup! I’ve got it uploading objects. It seems to be an issue with fetching them. The hash is either mismatched or it’s not correctly trying to grab from the sled repo. So, I get a 500 error in store response. Not really sure how to fix it.

Safing.io Portmaster

I am using the from scratch install and on 0.18.5 and using pictrs 0.4.0 beta (or whichever build comes with the embed version)

Initially, when I set my object storage creds in the docker-compose.yml file, it seemed to work and I see in my bucket it populated some files.

But now I don’t think it is writing anything to the bucket. Any ideas? Thanks!

Thanks! And to answer your question, I always like building from source to know exactly what’s involved. Just a hobbyist thing I guess lol

Turns out, even with the from scratch install, I needed to edit the docker-compose.yml file to add the pict-rs env vars. It’s working now.

You may want to also look at offloading media with pict-rs to a object storage like an S3 API compliant bucket. Otherwise, you’ll find Lemmy soaks up lots of storage.

Seems the only caveat to doing this is that now my instance is growing about ~2GB per day lmao

Might need to find a way to prune the storage or else this won’t be financially maintainable hah

Nice, that’s a great explorer. Looks like I’ve got quite a lot of indexing to do.

Hell yea. The LCS tool is working beautifully. Thanks for that!

Seems maybe that tool is a bit different? If you have a new community, you can use that tool to submit it. Rather than the opposite I’m looking for, where it lets me find new communities I’m not yet subscribed to (directly within my homeserver search).

Ah interesting, thanks. I’ll see if I can find some. That makes sense that it relies entirely upon the users of the instance and what they search/subscribe to. So, as a single-user instance, it’d only show what I venture out to find. Hopefully, the scripts you speak of can help automate some of that.