There’s automation and you can do it manually if needed. For example I have a couple of emulators that pull every 24 hours from GitHub just in case nint tendo gets a little lawsuit heavy. I also have one offs from GitHub that pull down when I want.

You can also mirror a public repo from GitHub into a private repo so it does not gets indexed/ai trained.

Yeah it can be that easy. Pixelfed.social is the big one.

Or you can go with one of the others to share the load.

I personally spun my own instance up just to try it out a couple of days ago. It’s neart and very perforant.

On the plus side pixelfed seems to be popping off. And every time one of the big companies f up, we get a slow trickle of new users. Which is much more sustainable in the long run.

Anyone have the text for this one? It’s behind a paywall ironically.