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This is why I've decided against running my own Lemmy instance. Too much work to have to keep up constantly with updating, too big of an attractive target for attackers.
For now. I feel like Lemmy world and their admins are doing a great job of stress testing this and working out all the links.
A year from now it may be way easier to host your own instance.
If you run the instance only for yourself then I'd say it makes you an unattractive target. Why do a lot of work to hack an instance with one user?
But yeah, since Lemmy's code is not super mature there'll be some pains in the short term.
A leaf node is a vector to spam/attack the rest of the network. The network is only as strong as its weakest node.
Edit: i.e. an instance owner with a weak shell password