Some of the comments in here are a fucking disgrace and a disappointment.
I just shut down my own self-hosted instance the other week because of legal concerns. Caching anything and everything that gets pushed to my server and basically having to put all my faith in other admins taking care of illegal stuff in a timely manner was stressful and not worth the risk. And that was a solo instance!
It’s only a matter of time until lawyers backed by millions of dollar come knocking on the door of lemmy admins and I can’t fault lw for being pro-active. Whether or not it’s legal in your jurisdiction to host communities like this doesn’t matter at all if you’re not the one with a name attached to the server. Even wrongful legal claims by copyright holders are costly and time intensive to fight back against.
Why should a private person who hosts an instance for thousands of users for free subject themselves to such a risk?
EOS is great, my Arch install when it was fresh was pretty much 1:1 EOS after installing the DE (minus dracut, a wallpaper and some helpers like simple=reflector).
250 package updates
Isn’t that more of a ‘stable distro’ issue tho? When you run yay every other day you’ll only ever have a dozen packages updating which makes it easy to troubleshoot any breakage.
Compare that to distros that upgrade every 6 months with hundreds of packages all at once. I’d say that carries a much bigger risk of something going wrong. I used to do a fresh install of Ubuntu with every new release purely to avoid the inevitable issues of apt upgrades.