I'm biting my tongue hard right now. I would really like to give you intel on that. The nature of our "censorship resistance" project has us facing the very real risk of service termination due to ambiguous ToS agreements though. Most agreements translate in plain English to, "We'll terminate you if you cost us too much."

Done! Do they manually review the posts?

It brought me back to the same page with the settings cleared and no visible post. I'll follow up if they don't post the review.

Something I should probably emphasize to people is the ease of the migration. I was worried the network settings were going to totally implode but it was very smooth and painless. You just have to remember that the interface name will change from something random-looking to "eth0". Yes, I left the old interface name in the first time. Yes, the new sysadmin teased me and told me to RTFM.

I was a little tiny bit absolutely livid.

Something that's driving me up the wall is all of the new systemd background services that are active with each new Debian/Raspbian release.

A lot of project contributors are interested in using raspberry pis or the new models of libres (they look like Pis) to help power Freenet. And since Raspbian tracks with Debian many of those systemd background services are littered all over the project contributor nodes. Magic cancer dust.

I have two things I'll tack on here.

Devuan Youtube Exposure

I have a YT channel with a few thousand subscribers. I'm part of a wider net of men that are facing deplatforming headwind and what might best be described as "financial harassment" (e.g. people will donate runs of small amounts and then issue chargebacks through the banks in an effort to bury the authors financially).

The side effect of both of those things is it's forcing authors to get off the Microsoft/Apple bandwagon and many of them are turning to cryptocurrencies. The side effect of that is many of them are just now starting to learn about Linux (Ubuntu/Debian usually) and they're just now starting to learn about DNS hijacking, Tor, and Cloudflare.

I anticipate many of them aren't going to know what systemd is. So while they're in this process of learning/transitioning I have an opportunity to stick my foot in the door here and encourage them to get ahead of the curve all at once rather than staying persistently behind it. My popularity at YT seems to go up whenever the risks (lack of foresight?) decide to manifest. So I'm planning on holding rank with funneling people toward Devuan as they get incrementally "woke".

Tails OS

I'm a big fan of Tails OS.  I'm not a big fan of it hooking itself up to GNOME/systemd.

Their FAQ says they won't consider leaving GNOME and their helpdesk shows they're moving to leverage "systemd security features".

Moving forward I might take their principle concepts (kernel settings, mac rotation/spoofing with each new connection, hardened firewall that rebuilds itself, Tor browser, app armor profiles, onion circuits, onion share, etc...) and apply them to a custom build of Devuan. The way I normally handle this is a fresh LXC container that takes an existing ISO, straps in the goodies, and then bakes out a hybrid bootable ISO (i.e. thumb drive or DVD). Usually the whole process is just one or two scripts and can even be done from a live boot (provided enough ram and/or swap).

I'm wondering if the Devuan community would be interested in something like that. Normally I just use it for myself internally... but with Tails OS seemingly marrying itself to the GNOME/systemd model... I could see it as a useful building block. I probably don't have the time to "be my own distro". But putting out the scripts I use might help jumpstart hardened live-boots of Devuan.

Feel free to let me know if anyone's already ported Tails to Devuan and I'll just shut up and support their work instead.