Well I’m quietly confident the first kinks of the new server have been worked out. Some stitch-ups I ran into along the way:

• Federation didn’t work with some instances, this was fixed by adjusting my SSL configuration to include the intermediate certificates
• Some images failed to upload but wouldn’t give any error, I was hitting the max upload size limit on pictrs. Made this a more generous 20MB
• Upgrading from Lemmy 0.17.4 to 0.18.0 changed the block list page in the admin panel and adding a new entry dumped the entire old list. Lesson learned, keep a copy outside of Lemmy

Things are now federating nicely, I’m pulling in plenty of content from other sites to help diversify the content that I’m posting in lieu of having members yet.

Onwards and upwards!