I mean. Imo that’s only fair. Sure they are getting one of the world’s larger economics (WA state + Portland), they are also getting Montana, Idaho, and a good chunk of the Dakota’s…

Hell. Don’t take the whole thing. Just move the boarder to the 45th parallel as opposed to the 49th.

And you might never. But lemmynsfw is a porn instance whereas .ml is not. Hence different goals for moderation.

Kinda. We have a bunch of small instances each with its own set of rules/norms. Lemmy.ml for example is not going to take a very different approach to moderation then lemmynsfw…

Good that it’s working (kinda).

So it sounds like your DNS resolver is botched. Id dig into the doc on how systemd-resolverd should look and see if you can’t rectify what went wrong (the arch wiki should have examples of what a default config looks like).

I don’t remember if arch uses cloud init configs but it being reset at boot feels like a cloud init config problem.

Let us know the following

If ping works for: localhost, your gateway, 1.1.1.1, google.com.

The contents of your /etc/resolve.conf

If you have a tun0 interface (ifconfig or ip a)

You said you uninstalled tailscale. Are there any running process or active systemd units laying around?