That’s just your lemmy client that extracts all links from the post. I can’t see any fault on OP’s side here.

Shouldn’t they be kept mirrored to other instances?

Caddy is the way to go.

Git itself is already distributed. For federated issues/pull requests, there is the ActivityPub extension ForgeFed. Forgejo ist actively working on implementing it.

I didn’t try CoreOS as I didn’t even get how to set it up. As I understand it, it uses a completely different workflow for administering the system compared to regular distros.

You can use Fedora IoT which is essentially rpm-ostree based Fedora Server. It would be less confusing if it was just named Fedora Atomic Server.

https://forgefed.org/

Where RSS?

You can also set SELinux to permissive mode. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/selinux-changing-states-and-modes/#_changing_to_permissive_mode

This way it is basically disabled, but you can reenable it without any problems.

NewsFlash syncs to nextcloud news

If you don’t like snap, maybe you should try another distro instead (I went to fedora because I was annnoyed of snaps).

Replaces crontab with something auditable that actually makes sense and is easy to use

Is there an easier/quicker way than having to create a service unit and a timer unit by hand?

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