https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1552802&sid=b71206a65b47e7f0f57ee4e526031e3d#p1552802
I personally use syncthing and sync it to a nas (with btrfs snapshots), I used to send it to a raspberry pi
A long time a go I’ve used LuckyBackup a gui over rsync to copy and overwrite to an external disk.
Also this isn’t Linux only advice, if you own a Mac or Windows device the same rules apply: backup your data!
Lots of mastodon hosts aren’t from the US.
It makes your choice of Twitter and Bluesky all the more questionable.
It sounds like you just don’t like being blocked.
is literally a single click and nobody can censor you.
Catering to CSAM is see.
That’s a huge power of the network.
If you’re going to talk about power Threads is the one to speak of and lots of hosts blocked it.
MAU 2-10k seems to be a sweet spot for alternatives to mastodon.social and that list combined is significant.
Bluesky’s modal ≠ no global admins
Is it a problem though? There are thousands of email providers you can choose form, and they still work fine for sending and receiving email.
On social platforms federating with everyone might not be desired and defederation is seen as a feature not a bug.
One your point on power law, the fediverse is pretty healthy.
Bluesky doesn’t federate, unless you have billions.
I’ve heard good things about self hosting with GoToSocial (federates with Mastodon) for single user instances
All the developers that care about not being on a Nazi platform have already moved to mastodon or bluesky.
Those that haven’t yet Imo, can suck Goebbels cock.
Great way to keep house/rent prices low
I love how all the developers working on it only have twitter links /s 🚩
Thanks 🙏
I remember 2009
The future of technology was bright
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/11/say-hello-to-gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html?m=1
Instead of selling competing protocols, companies and non profits came together to talk together… so that we could too.
Honestly I’d be a lot less negative of bluesky if it added native ActivityPub.
XMPP was added back in the day to W3 internet standard, as ActivityPub has.
Mastodon’s stance on the matter has been strongly opposed to algorithmic feeds
But thanks to ActivityPub (the protocol behind Mastodon and Lemmy) there’s also Minds (warning contains cryptocurrencies) https://help.minds.com/hc/minds/articles/1694176102-feeds
Federation with bluesky is just that technically theoretical. Creating a protocol that allows for federation is not enough
Stimulating others to federate by making it virtually impossible without only billions in the bank for zero profit sounds great 🤡.
It smells of green federate washing. A way to point legislators/ populous that bluesky is different, really, I swear, trust me bro 🤡 .
Instead of writing white papers Lemmy/Mbin/GoToSocial/jackal started with writing detailed documentation in how to run your own. In the scope of reality (not theory) 🤡
When the crisis is so extreme, legalised squatting laws help drive down prices.
What if I told you Bluesky federates just as well as WhatsApp does with XMPP.
Starbucks? More like Starfucks… hehehe
This is just every economic endeavour in existence nowadays, the issue with cryptocurrency is that it contains no guard rails (+ environmental issues)
Unless you work for a corporation, ask your employer what their exit strategy is.
Creating a new legal framework with examples to copy and compare is a lot easier than improving an existing one.