That’s what I’ve blocked yeah. Though you can’t really have any confirmation (the “software” and “version” fields will remain blank) because they haven’t even enabled federation yet.

When did you submit your request? I sent mine on the 22nd and they still haven’t replied. I’m thinking of reporting them to my country’s privacy authority if they don’t comply before 22/07.

Ansible guide. I didn’t follow this one myself but the guy who set up my instance said it was pretty easy
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

…or join a smaller instance.

Same, since I updated my instance to 0.18 Jerboa doesn’t work and instantly crashes.

Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.

Regular firefox with enhanced protection on by default + ublock origin does most of the work for me. Personally I also like to add a user agent switcher on top of it. Oh and the Facebook container extension, that one is a must.