I check my 5 free articles on Ground News practically daily. Ugly site. It points out some ugly things about us.

Ya. A nuanced media net is the only real answer. Trying to balance one liar against another rarely results in balance.

I can say both of those things with genuine respect. I thought I was going to get drafted into Desert Storm. I don’t like sand.

Al Jazeera is the mouthpiece of a hostile foreign power (to me). Its also sickeningly, cloyingly coated with hate for the US throughout any segment. I will on occasion read something that’s been generically reposted, recognize the writing style, and then confirm that it came from AJ. Its so tilted that it reminds me of Fox News. And I don’t watch Fox News either.

I hear you …

Ok. Yes, my use case is a private document and media store. I’m ungoogling.
VPN seems like a good place to start. But I’d like a simple answer, and I expect there are none to be had. As you’ve illustrated here, I’ll find a reason to punch holes in the firewall. And then I’m going to need to secure a web server. Life happens. I’ll keep it simple for now while I sort things. Thanks for your perspective.

Ya. I understand VPN. I do enterprise IT stuff. The things I build assume a secure environment. VPN is step one.
Nailing down a web server on the internet tho … there’s so many ways to attack. There’s so many things to secure. And its a bit complex to manage all that.
The nextcloud site covers hardening the server, but doesn’t even mention vpn.
I’ve been watching threads like this. I’m pretty convinced vpn is the answer.

I don’t often change upvotes. Sometimes I will go back and upvote things after I better understood the poster’s point.

Downvotes tho … I review my downvotes at lemvotes.org. I haven’t changed many, but I do reconsider them.

Well, I might as well put a dog in the fight. I’m considering my final, actually secure deployment of nextcloud.

This discussion has convinced me that a vpn is the only answer.
And almost everyone says wireguard.

K. Thats what I will build.

And this is the start of the longest crypto nerd fight I’ve seen on Lemmy. Well done, people!

Somebody else pointed out, maybe my instance just federated with them. This seems a likely cause for the sudden change in my feed.

Ok. This is useful info.

I’ve just checked that setting. Ok, that’s an option, thx. This is the first bot that I’ve actually noticed (aka it annoyed me), and I’ve blocked it specifically.

Its that old? I don’t know why I’m suddenly seeing their stuff. I’ll inquire w/my instance admin.

I’m still kinda new here. I’m guessing if enough instances admins hate it and defederate Lemmit.Online, they might stop?
I haven’t seen much lemmy drama yet. (Well, other than lemvotes, that was dramatic.) I don’t know how these things sort out.