The only reason I could see the government moving against it is if there are high-visibility press stories about the unsavory fediverse instances.

leaving a husk of the fediverse behind

Even if everything you describe happens, that “husk” will be what we have today, probably even bigger. I’m okay with that.

Create a read only lemmy instance populated with the data from the Reddit data dump. Make sure Google indexes it. Comply with DMCA requests made by users who want their content removed.

I check at least once a day. HN is great for tech news. In fact, it might not be a bad idea to stream HN topics into posts in a Lemmy community to discuss here.

The comments at HN are generally high quality but seem heavily moderated.

Yes but give it a few years for the price to come down, and for kinks in the technology to be worked out. The price would need to come down significantly though. They can’t compete with Meta at the price point they are at.

For me it was Slashdot->Hacker News, And then in parallel Reddit->Lemmy

Brave. It’s interesting getting completely different results than from any of the big players. And the results from Brave are often better.

Thanks so much! I’ll be trying this tomorrow