Most dash cameras that have an SD card slot just record over existing footage once it runs out of storage.

So get a large-capacity SD card. Have it record everything. Then every so often, take that SD card, put it into your laptop, and offload it wherever you want (NAS, cloud storage, etc.).

Yes. It just will fill your feed with a bunch of things you might not care about. But admin vs non admin doesn’t matter in the context of what I said.

Your instance is the one that federates. However it starts with a user subscribing to that content. Your instance won’t federate normally without user interaction.

Normally the solution for the second part is relays. But that isn’t something Lemmy supports currently. This issue is very common with smaller instances. It isn’t as big of a deal with bigger instances since users are more likely to have subscribed to more communities that will automatically be federated to your instance. You could experiment with creating a user and subscribing to a bunch of communities so they get federated to your instance.

Thanks. It did go down after about 40 minutes or so. It seems like my instance isn’t federating properly now tho. Had to manually call /api/v3/resolve_object with the link to your comment to even be able to reply to it.

Another example is here you can see that the number of upvotes doesn’t match this.

Any ideas?